An annoying rundown. I hate it when people don't just estimate the number of ops outright. 3.0 x 10^17 integer operations per second is the estimate. Why integer, I have no idea, as every neural network I've ever simulated used floating point operations, but that's probably because I wasn't aware of some brilliant optimisation (doh!). But whatever, let's pretend that number is accurate for floating point operations. 280.6 teraflops = 280.6 x 10^12 or 2.806 x 10^14, so you need over 1000 of these new computers (or you need to run at 1000th of realtime, hmmm). Then you need to actually determine an algorithm to simulate such a huge neural network on a distributed platform. Then you need some magical way to scan a human brain. Actually, that might not be too hard. If you zap someone who is clinically braindead they come back to life and seem normal enough (although they seem to consistently be more religious.. hmm, that might not be such a good thing) so maybe all you need to do is grab the brain of someone recently diseased and slice layer by layer from front to back and scan it with an electron microscope. That should give you a pretty good map. From simulating small parts of the map at a time you should be able to learn a lot. At least enough to provide it with input and output for a virtual environment.
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting that this is what should be done. I was suggesting that we could pay the most money. Asking someone to pay for a vaccine vs a cure is a no brainer.
I wrote a rant about the BSD vs GPL debate a while ago. You might find it interesting (not that you'll come back to read this comment as you're posting anonymously so I'm just wasting my time).
Cool. That's the way it should be. I'm told a firmware upgrade will make a lot of players work this way.. sounds like iRiver and Creative are starting to get it. Where's that leave Apple? As far as I'm aware you still need special software with an iPod, and you can't drag playable items from the iPod to the desktop.
I played a MUD once where your stats included whether or not you were married. This just spontaniously happened to your character now and then (although you could "get married" to another character and this would turn on the flag). When a new player came along and requested a character the script would randomly pick a character that had a the married bit set and randomly select a first name to go with the "parent" characters last name. The player of the parent character would receive a message saying that their long lost son (or daughter) has been spotted in the randomly selected home city of the new character. It was a fun system and gave a new (or old?) meaning to the term 'clan'.
Uhh, no. You scan the directory for any file which is not in the index and you display the filename to the user. If the user selects that filename you read the ID3 tags and update the index.
Then add to the user interface of the mp3 player the option to play files that have not been indexed. It's no more expensive to show a directory listing than it is to show a song/artist listing. And for God's sake, use a flat text file to store the index so anyone can write a program to update it (or you can just use a text editor and do it manually).
being upset that you don't get the email address you want makes perfect sense. Using your nick in a fantasy rolepaying game doesn't make sense. Of course, I'm being a bit hypocritical here, I play a number of games as QuantumG. But sometimes using your nick simply isn't appropriate. For example, if I ran around 17th century France calling myself QuantumG I'd receive quite a number of strange glances. Why? Because no 17th century french mother would name her son QuantumG, and it's for that reason why having an automatic name selection process for a roleplaying game is so attractive.
As of 2001 the location of the genes that causes Red/Green color blindness had not been located. We know that at least one of them is located on the X chromosome, but no idea where. In 1997 the gene that causes Achromatopsia, the complete inability to distinguish color, was located on chromosome 2 but this is the rarest form of color blindness. But say I had Achromatopsia, or that we located the gene for Red/Green color blindness, is there any hope of a cure? If you were to extract some of my stem cells, do some gene therapy on them, inject them into my eye and then flash my retina with a bright light would it grow back with a greater capability to distinguish color?
I know it's more sexy to cure debilitating genetic diseases but there's a lot more people out there with color blindness than there are people with hemophilia. Surely economies of scale dictate that we should get the first shot at a cure.
My girlfriend got an iRiver for her birthday. She's been happily ripping her 2000+ CD collection (all original, bought and paid for) and putting the songs on it. I asked her the other day if she had to install any special drivers or if the Mp3 player was just a normal USB storage device. Apparently it is "kinda" standard. You can drag an Mp3 off the iRiver onto a machine that has not had special iRiver drivers installed and you'll be able to play it.. but you can't drag any old Mp3 file off the computer and onto the iRiver and expect it to play. You can transport Mp3s like that but you need the iRiver drivers to update the index file. Sigh. Why can't the iRiver extract the song name and artist from the ID3 tags in the Mp3? Why can't it just use the freakin' filesystem instead of using its own index? At least it's better than an iPod.
It really won't stop phishing attacks. The phishing site will just act as a man-in-the-middle between the customer and PayPal. There's nothing you can do to prevent this except educating users not to click on links in their email.
Yeah, that's stupid. RSA are right to offer it as it is appropriate for a desktop contained in a secure office facility somewhere, but it is not appropriate for a laptop.
These are all good reason why you shouldn't get to select your nick in an RPG. You're supposed to be role playing.. let an automated script choose the name.
Bah. If you compile a proprietary extension into an Apache licensed program it doesn't matter that you're technically allowed to copy the Apache licensed portions. You can't seperate the two (and even if you could, the seperate parts would be useless) so the entire program is practically under a proprietary license.
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The last clause there is what makes it incompatible with the GPL and what made the OpenBSD folks fork it (they folked before the license change to include this clause). In answer to your question, yes, indeed anyone is free to extend and distribute binary forms of the software without having to hand over source code for their extensions (or even for the code they didn't write).
But here's a question for you. If you're required to give "any other recipients of the Work or Derivative Works a copy of this License", does that mean that the extended work has to be under this license? Or does it just mean you have to give the license to them, even though it isn't applicable. What stupid wording. Presumably it means you can't change the license on the software.. but you can apply any license you want on your extensions.. which means you can prohibit the software from being distributed, even though "this license" says you are free to distribute it.
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An annoying rundown. I hate it when people don't just estimate the number of ops outright. 3.0 x 10^17 integer operations per second is the estimate. Why integer, I have no idea, as every neural network I've ever simulated used floating point operations, but that's probably because I wasn't aware of some brilliant optimisation (doh!). But whatever, let's pretend that number is accurate for floating point operations. 280.6 teraflops = 280.6 x 10^12 or 2.806 x 10^14, so you need over 1000 of these new computers (or you need to run at 1000th of realtime, hmmm). Then you need to actually determine an algorithm to simulate such a huge neural network on a distributed platform. Then you need some magical way to scan a human brain. Actually, that might not be too hard. If you zap someone who is clinically braindead they come back to life and seem normal enough (although they seem to consistently be more religious.. hmm, that might not be such a good thing) so maybe all you need to do is grab the brain of someone recently diseased and slice layer by layer from front to back and scan it with an electron microscope. That should give you a pretty good map. From simulating small parts of the map at a time you should be able to learn a lot. At least enough to provide it with input and output for a virtual environment.
I think this is more appropriate.
Not to mention every space game ever made. Remember Elite? Privateer? "Find a Job" has always been the battlecry of the space sim.
Anytime you're ready Rockstar. I mean San Andreas is by anyone's definition an RPG.. get on with it.
Appreciation of modern art?
I believe it was US Secretary of State Henry Stimson who said "Gentlemen don't read each other's mail."
Yeah, I wasn't suggesting that this is what should be done. I was suggesting that we could pay the most money. Asking someone to pay for a vaccine vs a cure is a no brainer.
I wrote a rant about the BSD vs GPL debate a while ago. You might find it interesting (not that you'll come back to read this comment as you're posting anonymously so I'm just wasting my time).
Cool. That's the way it should be. I'm told a firmware upgrade will make a lot of players work this way.. sounds like iRiver and Creative are starting to get it. Where's that leave Apple? As far as I'm aware you still need special software with an iPod, and you can't drag playable items from the iPod to the desktop.
Quite deliberately I believe. It's not an RPG.
I played a MUD once where your stats included whether or not you were married. This just spontaniously happened to your character now and then (although you could "get married" to another character and this would turn on the flag). When a new player came along and requested a character the script would randomly pick a character that had a the married bit set and randomly select a first name to go with the "parent" characters last name. The player of the parent character would receive a message saying that their long lost son (or daughter) has been spotted in the randomly selected home city of the new character. It was a fun system and gave a new (or old?) meaning to the term 'clan'.
Uhh, no. You scan the directory for any file which is not in the index and you display the filename to the user. If the user selects that filename you read the ID3 tags and update the index.
Then add to the user interface of the mp3 player the option to play files that have not been indexed. It's no more expensive to show a directory listing than it is to show a song/artist listing. And for God's sake, use a flat text file to store the index so anyone can write a program to update it (or you can just use a text editor and do it manually).
being upset that you don't get the email address you want makes perfect sense. Using your nick in a fantasy rolepaying game doesn't make sense. Of course, I'm being a bit hypocritical here, I play a number of games as QuantumG. But sometimes using your nick simply isn't appropriate. For example, if I ran around 17th century France calling myself QuantumG I'd receive quite a number of strange glances. Why? Because no 17th century french mother would name her son QuantumG, and it's for that reason why having an automatic name selection process for a roleplaying game is so attractive.
As of 2001 the location of the genes that causes Red/Green color blindness had not been located. We know that at least one of them is located on the X chromosome, but no idea where. In 1997 the gene that causes Achromatopsia, the complete inability to distinguish color, was located on chromosome 2 but this is the rarest form of color blindness. But say I had Achromatopsia, or that we located the gene for Red/Green color blindness, is there any hope of a cure? If you were to extract some of my stem cells, do some gene therapy on them, inject them into my eye and then flash my retina with a bright light would it grow back with a greater capability to distinguish color?
I know it's more sexy to cure debilitating genetic diseases but there's a lot more people out there with color blindness than there are people with hemophilia. Surely economies of scale dictate that we should get the first shot at a cure.
My girlfriend got an iRiver for her birthday. She's been happily ripping her 2000+ CD collection (all original, bought and paid for) and putting the songs on it. I asked her the other day if she had to install any special drivers or if the Mp3 player was just a normal USB storage device. Apparently it is "kinda" standard. You can drag an Mp3 off the iRiver onto a machine that has not had special iRiver drivers installed and you'll be able to play it.. but you can't drag any old Mp3 file off the computer and onto the iRiver and expect it to play. You can transport Mp3s like that but you need the iRiver drivers to update the index file. Sigh. Why can't the iRiver extract the song name and artist from the ID3 tags in the Mp3? Why can't it just use the freakin' filesystem instead of using its own index? At least it's better than an iPod.
It really won't stop phishing attacks. The phishing site will just act as a man-in-the-middle between the customer and PayPal. There's nothing you can do to prevent this except educating users not to click on links in their email.
Yeah, that's stupid. RSA are right to offer it as it is appropriate for a desktop contained in a secure office facility somewhere, but it is not appropriate for a laptop.
because he's lying. He doesn't have a job, or a CIO, he's a kid in his parents' basement submitting to Slashdot.
These are all good reason why you shouldn't get to select your nick in an RPG. You're supposed to be role playing.. let an automated script choose the name.
And I hope you weren't calling me a hypocrite for being a Jew Against Israel (i.e. an anti-Zionist).
No, I was calling Jews For Israel hypocrites.
Bah. If you compile a proprietary extension into an Apache licensed program it doesn't matter that you're technically allowed to copy the Apache licensed portions. You can't seperate the two (and even if you could, the seperate parts would be useless) so the entire program is practically under a proprietary license.
Point still stands, times change.
I wonder how it compares to this graph.
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The last clause there is what makes it incompatible with the GPL and what made the OpenBSD folks fork it (they folked before the license change to include this clause). In answer to your question, yes, indeed anyone is free to extend and distribute binary forms of the software without having to hand over source code for their extensions (or even for the code they didn't write).
But here's a question for you. If you're required to give "any other recipients of the Work or Derivative Works a copy of this License", does that mean that the extended work has to be under this license? Or does it just mean you have to give the license to them, even though it isn't applicable. What stupid wording. Presumably it means you can't change the license on the software.. but you can apply any license you want on your extensions.. which means you can prohibit the software from being distributed, even though "this license" says you are free to distribute it.