Yeah, that's right. When a text message scrolls across my screen it is using just as many CPU cycles as a protein folding simulation, or Fourier analysis. Yeah.
But what about electricity usage? The recent case of the sysadmin who was fined a huge amount by the university for running a distributed client gave some figures:
Electricity usage increases by ~60% when spare cycles are used.
Logic switches in CPUs wear out up to ~15% sooner than if the idle cycles were left unused giving them time to cool down - we all know what a problem heat can be.
Extra heat from the CPU can add an extra ~5% to the cost of electricity required to run an air conditioner.
OK, so I don't really believe the last one because it seems that most buildings have such variation in number of computers and people moving through etc. But that doesn't stop the other two for being equally accurate.
IE6. It has default settings for cookie protection (I leave mine at the default of medium). I won't go into the various settings, but it differentiates between first and third party cookies, checks privacy policies and user consent. You select how strict it is from 'allow all cookies' to 'block all cookies'. The white/blacklist is applied on top of one of these levels.
If you want privacy, it's worth upgrading for that alone (plus all the exploit fixes). Then Tools:Internet Options:Privacy and you're free to play.
No, hold on. Remember that the whole point of hyperthreading is to obviate as many pipeline bubbles as possible.
By running various different contexts within the same stages of the pipeline Intel have vastly reduced the problem of idle pipelines. By splitting the pipelines into multiple cores, not only will there be redundant cores, but there will be more bubbles in the pipelines of any active cores.
No, Googlebot needs a link. If it is inaccessible through hyperlinks, Googlebot won't even know it existed. Of course, if it followed Reuters link then it would have found the report, but then that's the whole point of the legal action, isn't it?
Which is it? Either we know how it works or we don't. If we know how it works (same as ANNs?) then fine, go ahead and make assumptions based on that. If we don't, then don't make those assumptions. Just because people have evidence to support theories doesn't mean they can be stated as fact. We do not know how the brain works.
You are partly right; it is never NP-complete. It is also often solvable. However, in the general case it is not solvable - sometimes you just have to guess.
In fact, take the first move you have to make and tell me with 100% certainty that you're not clicking on a mine. You can't - the problem is not solveable.
If something is NP-hard for a circuit, its NP hard for a brain too.
This is clearly true if taken at face value, however if you consider your implications, you are making a large implicit (though IMHO true) assumption: that the human brain is computationally equivalent to a Turing machine.
Until we understand the function of a brain completely (no, we can't just assume it is perfectly modeled as an ANN), we can't make that sort of assumption.
"I went into a Cancer Research and there was no research going on at all! Just a bunch of old women selling clothes. No wonder we haven't found a cure."
You'd rather have ogg than wav? Ah yes, of course. Ogg is openad therefore it must be better than wav, and you can't recompress wav to ogg because it would be 'lossy'.
And they're both shitty stories, yet on the front page.
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Well, you may not think that they are fast enough right now, but that is set to change. On of the manufacturers (Sony perhaps? I have a terrible memory) has had a patent for some time that they were expecting to come to fruition around Q2 of 2002 that has obviously gone over schedule, but is likely to allow refreshes up to 70Hz in the first generation, but they believe it may even extend to ~150Hz in the future - put monitors to shame in every which way!
I forget the exact tech, but the basic idea was using a set of 'high-tensile' coupled LCDs instead of the regular LCD cells. Usually their nature means that they can only be cast to minute sizes, far too small for useful work (a 15" screen would require a minimum of 4096*4096 cells, and even then the display would be grainy due to the cell-pitch.
Philips tried to work around this by using flared-end fibre optics, but it'll come as no surprise that this produced an exceptionally blurry and dull image. Sony, however, have found a set of lab conditions under which HT-coupled LCD can be crystallised at sensible sizes.
It'll be expensive to start with, but this may well spell the end of the power hungry CRT.
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all of those apps use the same basic functionality that's built into the OS kernel - one large, stinking glob of code.
Would that be the Windows NT microkernel?
Yeah, it is horribly bloated. Imagine how bloated and crap an OS with a (by definition) much larger monolithic kernel would be.
Excuse me? He has cited an equation to show that holding a cellphone close to your head floods you with radiation. What type of radiation? Microwaves! I for one don't want to have my head flooded with the same things that we use to cook meat. It's hardly rocket science is it?
I know I will never use a cellphone because of the radiation. Me and the rest of my neighbours had to campaign to stop them putting up an antenna in our street - there are children that play there for G_d's sake! We can't have our children suffer radiation sickness just so that people can communicate better.
Your attitude of jumping to conclusions just shows how much you only care about your lifestyle, when there is the health of others to be considered. Maybe you should read the parent post more carefully before dismissing it out of hand.
Literally you have blood on your hands when you buy an X-Box
Literally? So if you buy an X-Box and then look down you will find that your hands have a red liquid on them? Or by 'literally' did you actually mean an antonym such as 'figuratively'?
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Yeah, that's right. When a text message scrolls across my screen it is using just as many CPU cycles as a protein folding simulation, or Fourier analysis. Yeah.
OK, so I don't really believe the last one because it seems that most buildings have such variation in number of computers and people moving through etc. But that doesn't stop the other two for being equally accurate.
So don't worry, it's not doing anything nastier than you've already seen. If you don't believe me, look it up in the virus list.
No doubt these images were the motivation for the open source developers.
Oh, I know. It's because M$ SuxX0reZ and Lunix RuLEzZ0rZ and therefore I must be wrong because I mentioned IE.
Don't worry Timmah, you'll make some friends when you get put into that special class your parents have been talking about.
If you want privacy, it's worth upgrading for that alone (plus all the exploit fixes). Then Tools:Internet Options:Privacy and you're free to play.
Oh, really? Looks like it has blacklists and whitelists. Although you can see I don't bother with them.
By running various different contexts within the same stages of the pipeline Intel have vastly reduced the problem of idle pipelines. By splitting the pipelines into multiple cores, not only will there be redundant cores, but there will be more bubbles in the pipelines of any active cores.
Also, they're generally regarded as 'one use' in the community - I tried reusing one but by the time I got to it it had decomposed :-(
No, Googlebot needs a link. If it is inaccessible through hyperlinks, Googlebot won't even know it existed. Of course, if it followed Reuters link then it would have found the report, but then that's the whole point of the legal action, isn't it?
Oh yeah, because searching freenet for "deep throat" is sure to give you secret information right at the top of the list.
I just wasn't thinking very hard about what problems one comes up against during a game - sorry.
we do know...the mechanism by which it works
Which is it? Either we know how it works or we don't. If we know how it works (same as ANNs?) then fine, go ahead and make assumptions based on that. If we don't, then don't make those assumptions. Just because people have evidence to support theories doesn't mean they can be stated as fact. We do not know how the brain works.
You are partly right; it is never NP-complete. It is also often solvable. However, in the general case it is not solvable - sometimes you just have to guess.
In fact, take the first move you have to make and tell me with 100% certainty that you're not clicking on a mine. You can't - the problem is not solveable.
This is clearly true if taken at face value, however if you consider your implications, you are making a large implicit (though IMHO true) assumption: that the human brain is computationally equivalent to a Turing machine.
Until we understand the function of a brain completely (no, we can't just assume it is perfectly modeled as an ANN), we can't make that sort of assumption.
"I went into a Cancer Research and there was no research going on at all! Just a bunch of old women selling clothes. No wonder we haven't found a cure."
You're making something of a large, unproven assumption there.
The fact it's clearly right doesn't matter...
You'd rather have ogg than wav? Ah yes, of course. Ogg is openad therefore it must be better than wav, and you can't recompress wav to ogg because it would be 'lossy'.
And they're both shitty stories, yet on the front page.
I forget the exact tech, but the basic idea was using a set of 'high-tensile' coupled LCDs instead of the regular LCD cells. Usually their nature means that they can only be cast to minute sizes, far too small for useful work (a 15" screen would require a minimum of 4096*4096 cells, and even then the display would be grainy due to the cell-pitch.
Philips tried to work around this by using flared-end fibre optics, but it'll come as no surprise that this produced an exceptionally blurry and dull image. Sony, however, have found a set of lab conditions under which HT-coupled LCD can be crystallised at sensible sizes.
It'll be expensive to start with, but this may well spell the end of the power hungry CRT.
Would that be the Windows NT microkernel?
Yeah, it is horribly bloated. Imagine how bloated and crap an OS with a (by definition) much larger monolithic kernel would be.
I know I will never use a cellphone because of the radiation. Me and the rest of my neighbours had to campaign to stop them putting up an antenna in our street - there are children that play there for G_d's sake! We can't have our children suffer radiation sickness just so that people can communicate better.
Your attitude of jumping to conclusions just shows how much you only care about your lifestyle, when there is the health of others to be considered. Maybe you should read the parent post more carefully before dismissing it out of hand.
Catalase, aka Hydrogen peroxide oxidoreductase.
i hate it too it was really really good but now its not and its not fair and they just do it because they dont like us and im telling on them.
Literally? So if you buy an X-Box and then look down you will find that your hands have a red liquid on them? Or by 'literally' did you actually mean an antonym such as 'figuratively'?