That's 76 x 1600x1200 x 24 bits/second of graphics...3.5Gbits/sec. Realtime compression tricks might cut that in half - but even a dedicated 1GHz link to eachuser is insufficient.
Network bandwidth will continue to increase in speed and decrease in cost. In 10 years its feasible every home might have a dedicated 1GBps link. In the meantime, the actual bandwidth required won't really increase - once network bandwidth reaches the bandwidth of the human nervous system, its only logical that computation will become centralized.
Well according to some interpretations of quantum theory, space is a seething of virtual particles. But what if space itself does not actually exist and is merely the absense of something? Then the boundary of the universe represents the point to which existence has reached at the speed of light.
It may be nothing more than a fixed volume inside a larger universe and everything inside is just shrinking and giving us the illusion that space itself is growing.
This would certainly explain the so-called "cosmological constant", i.e. if mass is shrinking at a half-life (half-size) rate of a billion years or so gravity would pull objects together faster then the rate of contraction up to approximately galaxy size, while galaxies themselves would not be affected fast enough to avoid the appearance of flying apart.
7. One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills I'm prepared for pretty much everything.
Speaking as someone who used to live near you, I have to take exception to some of what you say:
Wages are lower, but the variance in housing prices and other cost-of-living items far outstrips the wage differential.
Cost of living may be less, but a lot of it is made up for by the fact you have to drive further to get anywhere. With the price of gasoline going up this only gets worse.
"Rural" doesn't mean "no access to a major metro area.
Again, gas... after we left we heard that a lot of other people were leaving too because it was cheaper to live closer to the city.
No crime and good schools. 'Nuff said.
Comparatively speaking crime is lower. However the town I lived did have quite a bit more crime then you might expect. Murder, drugs, sexual misconduct, vandalism.
Yes, Virginia, there is connectivity in the boonies.
Can't disagree there... had wireless broadband...
One downside: The housing market isn't very liquid.
In fact many people actually lose money selling their houses in a rural market. (Hint: Never buy in a market in which you are able to talk down the owner by 15-20% of their asking price... the same will happen to you!) And with gas prices and people moving closer to the city it is only getting worse. I've heard 12-18 months to have a decent chance of getting your money back.
Also, if you move to a rural area, what happens if things don't work out with the (probably only in the area) company you are working for and you have to move quickly?
Once I learn that someone works a full-time job and where they work, I can predict with greater than 85% accuracy where they will be between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Monday through Friday.
Too bad I work second shift... I'm never at work before 1p.m. and only before 2p.m. 60% of the time. So much for your "accuracy".
If you really want to watch that video full screen, just zoom the screen in until the video takes up the whole screen. (Assuming the aspect ratios of the screen and your video are the same of course...) I also use this trick when I want to enlarge an image or even text to show somebody across the room.
In some ways Mac OS X excites and inspires me, and in others ways... well, one thing that really bothers me is all the claims that they are doing new things that aren't really new. For example, Dashboard seems to me to be a re-implementation of an ability Windows has had for some time, to run HTML+Javascript pages under your desktop. Now granted, the implementation is different, and I think OS X does a much better job of it, the widgets look spifier, etc. but Apple wasn't the first to do something like this.
Well I understand how rural life is better... but how do you do it? Personally I have trouble with any job I can't walk to in a pinch... (*) I've had one job where I had to drive up to an hour one way to get to it, and I felt like I was wasting my life away in my car, like that hour could have been much better spent doing something else. When I factored in the cost of driving, my closer job actually paid more, even though the hourly rate was 33% less.
(*)And I consider a 30 minute walk reasonable since I don't do it every day.
The entropy of a closed system always increases because if it did not, large scale and small scale events would be indistinguishable. Consider that decreasing entropy means that you essentially have an unlimited computational device in a fixed amount of space. Therefore two spaces of different sizes would be computationally equivalent, even as the size of the space becomes vanishingly small. Such a universe would be strange indeed.
Be careful how you do this. I was doing this under iMovie a while back - I condensed several clips from various tapes to one DV. I noticed that if you suddenly suck up a bunch of CPU (Like say, trying to launch an app so you can do something else while you are waiting) iMovie will drop frames going out to the camcorder. (Ouch, those frames would have been lost forever if I hadn't noticed!)
By necessity, since traveling backwards in time causes effects to occur before their cause. The universe stops making sense when causality is violated because causality is what makes the universe make sense in the first place.
Anyway, I think the authors may have seen this movie. The idea is certainly not new.
They have apparently hand-picked chosen six "of the finest" computer scientists in the world to compete. I know there have been a few people posting in this article asking how to enter. Well there you have it. You can't. I hope you are as upset as I am.
I don't know about the age, but you enter the bot through an editor.
Yeah yeah, emacs or vi or whatever. But once the program is compiled and ready to run, how do I enter it in the contest. Or did you mean that I should submit the program through the editor of the newspaper? Or...
Since several people including myself have asked how to enter and there have been zero replies, I will take it upon myself to google at bit...
I've been working on a poker game just like this. A friend said the world didn't need another poker game, but now I'm not so sure. The problem is, I don't see anything in the article that says how to enter my program in the contest.
We looked into the cell option versus cable, and here were the two show-stoppers for us (Cingular, YMMV):
1. "Not all protocols are supported". No further eludication. Good luck finding somebody who knows if ssh or whatever you might realize you need in the future is supported.
2. "No bulk downloading JPEGS". I *guess* maybe they are saying they don't want you to download pr0n with their service, but I can think of legitimate reasons for wanting to do that, such as mirroring web sites for personal use. (terraserver anyone?;)
Slashdot Mirror
That's 76 x 1600x1200 x 24 bits/second of graphics...3.5Gbits/sec. Realtime compression tricks might cut that in half - but even a dedicated 1GHz link to eachuser is insufficient.
Network bandwidth will continue to increase in speed and decrease in cost. In 10 years its feasible every home might have a dedicated 1GBps link. In the meantime, the actual bandwidth required won't really increase - once network bandwidth reaches the bandwidth of the human nervous system, its only logical that computation will become centralized.
Yeah I was going for funny. Moderators. Heh.
If you're not guilty of violating the law, don't pay.
You know if you are guilty or not. If a court of law says you're guilty but you know you're not, still don't pay.
But space is really what?
Well according to some interpretations of quantum theory, space is a seething of virtual particles. But what if space itself does not actually exist and is merely the absense of something? Then the boundary of the universe represents the point to which existence has reached at the speed of light.
It may be nothing more than a fixed volume inside a larger universe and everything inside is just shrinking and giving us the illusion that space itself is growing.
This would certainly explain the so-called "cosmological constant", i.e. if mass is shrinking at a half-life (half-size) rate of a billion years or so gravity would pull objects together faster then the rate of contraction up to approximately galaxy size, while galaxies themselves would not be affected fast enough to avoid the appearance of flying apart.
whats 300 bucks now if you lose your hearing tomorrow? 300 bucks is peanuts
If you don't have 300 bucks, I would said 300 bucks is a lot!
If you get a chance you may want to visit this discount cat furniture site, it's pretty awesome too!
And somewhat ironically, the cat furniture site was still under construction...
Now the label on the box that says "single use only" is given force of law, and if you refill the cartridge you are liable for patent infringement.
Yeah, right.
Oh wait, you were serious?
7. One drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills
I'm prepared for pretty much everything.
Almost. You forgot the cyanide pill...
Speaking as someone who used to live near you, I have to take exception to some of what you say:
Wages are lower, but the variance in housing prices and other cost-of-living items far outstrips the wage differential.
Cost of living may be less, but a lot of it is made up for by the fact you have to drive further to get anywhere. With the price of gasoline going up this only gets worse.
"Rural" doesn't mean "no access to a major metro area.
Again, gas... after we left we heard that a lot of other people were leaving too because it was cheaper to live closer to the city.
No crime and good schools. 'Nuff said.
Comparatively speaking crime is lower. However the town I lived did have quite a bit more crime then you might expect. Murder, drugs, sexual misconduct, vandalism.
Yes, Virginia, there is connectivity in the boonies.
Can't disagree there... had wireless broadband...
One downside: The housing market isn't very liquid.
In fact many people actually lose money selling their houses in a rural market. (Hint: Never buy in a market in which you are able to talk down the owner by 15-20% of their asking price... the same will happen to you!) And with gas prices and people moving closer to the city it is only getting worse. I've heard 12-18 months to have a decent chance of getting your money back.
Also, if you move to a rural area, what happens if things don't work out with the (probably only in the area) company you are working for and you have to move quickly?
I call dibs on the flying Lamborghini design from AutoMan!
Actually the AutoCar was a modified Dome Zero which itself was a prototype.
I live in Hawaii you insensitive clod!
Once I learn that someone works a full-time job and where they work, I can predict with greater than 85% accuracy where they will be between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Monday through Friday.
Too bad I work second shift... I'm never at work before 1p.m. and only before 2p.m. 60% of the time. So much for your "accuracy".
Oh, and my days off are Tuesday and Wednesday...
Like this?
If you really want to watch that video full screen, just zoom the screen in until the video takes up the whole screen. (Assuming the aspect ratios of the screen and your video are the same of course...) I also use this trick when I want to enlarge an image or even text to show somebody across the room.
and so are making a buck off the purchases you click-through from their sites.
So if you decide to shop at any of these sites, save a buck or two by manually typing in the URL rather than clicking through!
In some ways Mac OS X excites and inspires me, and in others ways... well, one thing that really bothers me is all the claims that they are doing new things that aren't really new. For example, Dashboard seems to me to be a re-implementation of an ability Windows has had for some time, to run HTML+Javascript pages under your desktop. Now granted, the implementation is different, and I think OS X does a much better job of it, the widgets look spifier, etc. but Apple wasn't the first to do something like this.
Well I understand how rural life is better... but how do you do it? Personally I have trouble with any job I can't walk to in a pinch... (*) I've had one job where I had to drive up to an hour one way to get to it, and I felt like I was wasting my life away in my car, like that hour could have been much better spent doing something else. When I factored in the cost of driving, my closer job actually paid more, even though the hourly rate was 33% less.
(*)And I consider a 30 minute walk reasonable since I don't do it every day.
The entropy of a closed system always increases because if it did not, large scale and small scale events would be indistinguishable. Consider that decreasing entropy means that you essentially have an unlimited computational device in a fixed amount of space. Therefore two spaces of different sizes would be computationally equivalent, even as the size of the space becomes vanishingly small. Such a universe would be strange indeed.
Be careful how you do this. I was doing this under iMovie a while back - I condensed several clips from various tapes to one DV. I noticed that if you suddenly suck up a bunch of CPU (Like say, trying to launch an app so you can do something else while you are waiting) iMovie will drop frames going out to the camcorder. (Ouch, those frames would have been lost forever if I hadn't noticed!)
By necessity, since traveling backwards in time causes effects to occur before their cause. The universe stops making sense when causality is violated because causality is what makes the universe make sense in the first place.
Anyway, I think the authors may have seen this movie. The idea is certainly not new.
They should have issued Amazon U.S. Patent No. 6,293,874 instead.
http://www.wsopr.com
They have apparently hand-picked chosen six "of the finest" computer scientists in the world to compete. I know there have been a few people posting in this article asking how to enter. Well there you have it. You can't. I hope you are as upset as I am.
I don't know about the age, but you enter the bot through an editor.
Yeah yeah, emacs or vi or whatever. But once the program is compiled and ready to run, how do I enter it in the contest. Or did you mean that I should submit the program through the editor of the newspaper? Or...
Since several people including myself have asked how to enter and there have been zero replies, I will take it upon myself to google at bit...
I've been working on a poker game just like this. A friend said the world didn't need another poker game, but now I'm not so sure. The problem is, I don't see anything in the article that says how to enter my program in the contest.
We looked into the cell option versus cable, and here were the two show-stoppers for us (Cingular, YMMV):
;)
1. "Not all protocols are supported". No further eludication. Good luck finding somebody who knows if ssh or whatever you might realize you need in the future is supported.
2. "No bulk downloading JPEGS". I *guess* maybe they are saying they don't want you to download pr0n with their service, but I can think of legitimate reasons for wanting to do that, such as mirroring web sites for personal use. (terraserver anyone?