One thing to notice in ddj-diagram is that the x-axis is logarithmic. Jump from 1 MHz to 1 Ghz in speed equals to jump from 1GHz to 2 Ghz. I think we are doing just fine.
One thing to consider is that electrical signals in chips have maximum speed of 2/3 of light speed.
Homework: how many centimeters (or inches) electrical signal travels in one clock cycle when processor is running 1Ghz and 10Ghz.
Yes! it is kind of hard to design chips when bits in other side of the bus are different form opposite side.
High on the list of things Lisp offers that most other languages botch is
the idea that (+ x 1) for any integer x should return a number bigger than
x in all cases. It seems like such a small point, but it's often quite
useful.
-- Kent M. Pitman
When I served in Finnish army and our tank participated in parade we played with our tank laser range finder. We selected really beautiful feamale butt from audience made that cat jump really high.
They find out. We got fined and diciplined. There was story in news and all.
I don't think that he talks just about degrees when he talks about education. Yes degrees have positive correlation (not in all areas) with people being educated. But maybe only 10-20% of those people who have degree are really educated. (intellecutal elites for you). Those are the people who write articles into Britannica.
When I read Brtiannica I read articles from people who are far beound me in their knowledge of the subjects. I enjoy it. I don't want to learn from my peers.
The hard fact is. 50% of all people are less educated in any subject than other half of the people. Masses should not be allowed to mess with knowledge.
I have worked/friend with some east European programmers/scientists/ohterpeople and here is my humble opinion.
Basically east Europe is culturally/mentally 30-50 years behind western europe. Many people with my age (~30) have something common with my parents or other older westerners. And I mean that in good sense.
It has something to do with old fashioned education plus better general self discipline in all areas.
Some personal data points; (consider them as general observations)
They don't generally suffer from AHDH (as sickness and general mentality) like many western counterparts.
They don't eat too much.
They don't use all these sleeping pills/prozac/etc. combinations I have noticed many my North American friends do (we western europeans are not that deep in shit yet).
They don't have severe email/web/slashdot addictions.
They can concentrate.
They have good mathematical background.
They can do even painful and not so fun projects if they must
And don't think that I'm saying that we westerners are some kind of degenerate bunch of people. What I'm saying that our culture has some drawbacks that can knock out big % of our potentially talented people into slacker mode.
What!!! Do you mean that there is even more conservative bushlims in your contry than Ashcroft? I tought Ashcroft was already off the limit (outlier is statistical terms). Who could it be?? Who can be more scary than Ashcroft?
Some kind of ultra-religious-neurotic-only-meat-eating-virgin- -homophopic- -nazi-kkk- -old-white-fat-protestant-living-with-his-control- freak-mom?
1) Each time he has been sworn in to political office, he is anointed with cooking oil.
2) He believes calico cats are signs of the devil
3) Sings Let the Eagle Soar, wants staff join.
listen
4) In January 2002, a pair of 12ft statues in the atrium of a justice department building were covered by a blue curtain, on orders from Mr Ashcroft's office because the female figure Spirit of Justice was bare-breasted, and the body of her male partner, Majesty of Law, was not sufficiently covered by his toga.
If you can track their orbit (relatively easy) and can launch small bucket containing millions of tiny ball bearings in the same orbit but opposite direction you can kill them easily. (relative speeds can be 10-50 km/sec)
For slow orbit spy satellites this is quite feasible for many contries.
Relevance: If there is weapons in the sky, you can expect countries to prepare for countermeasures. After first major space battle against well prepared enemy our low orbit space will be full of fast flying tiny metal objects, satellite parts, and other space junk for decades/centuries.
And suddenly space travel is more dangerous and more expensive for all.
Check out http://suunto.com They have watches with compass, GPS, Heart rate monitor, altimeter, barometer,.... Now. That's nice and all. But when they add basic phone into it, that's killer.
And then comes Google with its massively distributed Array of Inexpensive Reduntant Computers (AIRC) and uses all those giga flops to fetch p0rn links and pictures. I'm coming!
How many flops is 100000 low cost PC:s?
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+5 resist oppression (in case you haven't gotten this chain mail yet)
CORUSCANT-Presiding over a memorial service commemorating the victims of the attack on the Death Star, the Emperor declared that while recent victories over the Rebel Alliance were "encouraging, the War on Terror is not over yet." "We will continue to fight these terrorists, and the rogue governments who harbor them, until the universe is safe, once and for all, and the security of the Neo-New Cosmic Order ensured."
It was one year ago today that the Death Star, perhaps the greatest symbol of the Empire's might, was destroyed in an attack by fanatic Rebels, who used small, single-person crafts to infiltrate seemingly impenetrable defenses. Thousands of mourners were on hand to remember and pay tribute to the victims and their families. "We lost our innocence that day," reflected one mourner. "I guess we thought we were immune from the kind of violence that happens in other galaxies. We were wrong." "I lost hundreds of buddies that day," said one teary-eyed Stormtrooper. "Guys whose only crime was trying make the Universe a safer place."
Although the day was colored by sadness, the mourners found some relief in the news of a decisive victory over the Rebels. In an attack led by Darth Vader, Empire forces were able to rout hundreds of Rebels from a network of caves underneath the surface of the planet Hoth. "We're not sure we got them all," says a Vader spokesman. "There are a lot of places to hide in those caves. But we've delivered a powerful blow to the terrorist's infrastructure, that's for sure. Today, the Empire has struck back."
Initial reports are unclear as to the fate of Luke Skywalker, a hero among the Rebels, who is rumored to have delivered the fatal blow to the Death Star. Skywalker, a former desert-dweller from the planet Tattooine, became a part of the Rebellion after family members were killed. Skywalker was trained by a militant wing of the Rebels, known as "Jedi Knights." Fanatical in their religious beliefs, the Jedi Knights claim to derive their power from the mystical "Force." It's believed that Skywalker was specifically trained by infamous terrorist O bin Wankanobi. Wankanobi, occasionally called "Ben" and easily recognized by his bearded visage and long, flowing robes, achieved near-martyr status among the Rebels after his death last year during a spy mission. His more fervent followers believe that Wankanobi lives on within them today, some even claiming to hear his voice during times of duress.
The attack on the Death Star came shortly after the Empire's destruction of Alderstaan, a planet whose government was known to harbor terrorists. Responding to criticism over the total annihilation of the planet, Vader stated, "There is no middle ground in the War on Terror. Those who harbor terrorists are terrorists themselves. Alderaan was issued ample warning. The fight for continuing Freedom is often burdened by terrible cost." The cost of this war can still be seen today in the continuing efforts to build a coalition government on Tattooine. Longstanding animosities among the planets various ethnic groups, including the Jawas, Tusken Raiders and scattered human settlers, have been an impediment to the peace process. The Empire continues to maintain a small peace keeping force until a provisional government is finally in place.
Much of the difficulty in fighting the Rebel forces stems from their lack of a central organizing structure. "They don't play by the traditional rules of war," complained one spokesman. "They come in all shapes and sizes, united only by their single-minded desire to destroy the Empire before it destroys them." The Emperor closed his comments today by stating that "the cowardly attack n the Death Star left a deep scar on the Empire. However, we will not stop fighting until every last evildoer has been brought to justice." He paused for several moments, wiping away a tear and then added with determination, "We will never forget." "I wish we could"
Maybe because all Lisp (at least Common Lisp) programmer teams equal in size and intelligence to winning OCaml-programmer team are busy working in Google?
Or maybe because OCaml and other strongly typed languages attract the most intelligent people who have time to attend (read: academics love typesystems and clean functional languages, academics are smart).
I strongly suggest that commercial Common Lisp vendors Franz and Xanalys should throw their programmers into next years competition. If developers of CL can't compete against developers of OCaml then we can see if CL is any good.
Well, being fully human means that you try to go beyond your limits. If that means solving the world hunger problem then so be it.
btw. I'm taking the "replace ourselves with AI machines?" path you suggested. Resistance is futile.
See Manna example
There is also new intrest for the insights of Carl Marx (yes! the guy communist's worship) among economist circles. Instead of suggesting that workers should make revolution and use violence. Marx tought that communism is rational outcome from capitalism (surprise!). You can actually see it coming. Machines and robots automate physical labour, now self servise machines (web pages, teller machines etc.) take away service jobs. Eventually there comes limit where most of the human population is not smart enough to have any job that pays real money (real money means enough $$$ to keep you realatively happy). Rich people have to pay to the poor so that they stay calm and don't become terrorists/unhappy/troublemakers. It does not nesseserily mean that there is big coverment controlling this. It may be realized as kind of insurance against masses. If you give the masses enough money to buy tv, beer, pizza and painkillers, without too heavy work they will not take take the hard route (can you imagine fat american suburbanists heading to the hills fighting guerilla war after Patriot Act Plus Plus takes finally away all their rights to privacy) and can't threaten the rich and powerful. All remaing agression can be directed to easily managed violence (see soccer hooliganism) where poor people fight poor in small scale.
The question is where you draw the line. Apparently almost all people draw the line into where they stand. You feel that your case is where the bad situation begings. But why should other peopole feel same way? If you are not dying I don't care!
Ultimately everything revolves around world hunger. If you can solve that you can solve other problems too.
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One thing to notice in ddj-diagram is that the x-axis is logarithmic. Jump from 1 MHz to 1 Ghz in speed equals to jump from 1GHz to 2 Ghz. I think we are doing just fine.
One thing to consider is that electrical signals in chips have maximum speed of 2/3 of light speed.
Homework: how many centimeters (or inches) electrical signal travels in one clock cycle when processor is running 1Ghz and 10Ghz.
Yes! it is kind of hard to design chips when bits in other side of the bus are different form opposite side.
High on the list of things Lisp offers that most other languages botch is the idea that (+ x 1) for any integer x should return a number bigger than x in all cases. It seems like such a small point, but it's often quite useful. -- Kent M. Pitman
http://www.dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html
When I served in Finnish army and our tank participated in parade we played with our tank laser range finder. We selected really beautiful feamale butt from audience made that cat jump really high.
They find out. We got fined and diciplined. There was story in news and all.
We adults must use chemicals. No wonder why we look back to our childhood with nostalgia.
When they have tiny flying robots eating camel shit ,can they can finally find Osama?
Plug and Play or Play and Plug. Automatically adjust's to your male connector's size.
Read Darth W. Vader press conference.
Because all them arabs and muslims use same kind of turbans?
With the same idiotic logic, maybe we should have internet attached rifles, mortars and tanks.
Handicapped people may want to shoot irakis too.
MS will probably come out with IE FIREFIGHTER 1.0. In the third quater of 2006.
Heh, atleast China is not country full of ultra religious bushlims and muslims. It's more confy to deal with good old pover hungry nations.
What really scares me is this big nuke owning contry whose rulers are preparing for second coming of Jesus.
I don't think that he talks just about degrees when he talks about education. Yes degrees have positive correlation (not in all areas) with people being educated. But maybe only 10-20% of those people who have degree are really educated. (intellecutal elites for you). Those are the people who write articles into Britannica.
When I read Brtiannica I read articles from people who are far beound me in their knowledge of the subjects. I enjoy it. I don't want to learn from my peers.
The hard fact is. 50% of all people are less educated in any subject than other half of the people. Masses should not be allowed to mess with knowledge.
Basically east Europe is culturally/mentally 30-50 years behind western europe. Many people with my age (~30) have something common with my parents or other older westerners. And I mean that in good sense.
It has something to do with old fashioned education plus better general self discipline in all areas.
Some personal data points; (consider them as general observations)
And don't think that I'm saying that we westerners are some kind of degenerate bunch of people. What I'm saying that our culture has some drawbacks that can knock out big % of our potentially talented people into slacker mode.
John Ashcroft
1) Each time he has been sworn in to political office, he is anointed with cooking oil.
2) He believes calico cats are signs of the devil
3) Sings Let the Eagle Soar, wants staff join. listen
4) In January 2002, a pair of 12ft statues in the atrium of a justice department building were covered by a blue curtain, on orders from Mr Ashcroft's office because the female figure Spirit of Justice was bare-breasted, and the body of her male partner, Majesty of Law, was not sufficiently covered by his toga.
If you can track their orbit (relatively easy) and can launch small bucket containing millions of tiny ball bearings in the same orbit but opposite direction you can kill them easily. (relative speeds can be 10-50 km/sec)
For slow orbit spy satellites this is quite feasible for many contries.
Relevance: If there is weapons in the sky, you can expect countries to prepare for countermeasures. After first major space battle against well prepared enemy our low orbit space will be full of fast flying tiny metal objects, satellite parts, and other space junk for decades/centuries.
And suddenly space travel is more dangerous and more expensive for all.
Check out http://suunto.com They have watches with compass, GPS, Heart rate monitor, altimeter, barometer, .... Now. That's nice and all. But when they add basic phone into it, that's killer.
"Thats no moon....THIS is a moon" -- Obi-Wan Kenobi drops pants
There are 10 kinds of people: those who understand binary and those who don't.
And then comes Google with its massively distributed Array of Inexpensive Reduntant Computers (AIRC) and uses all those giga flops to fetch p0rn links and pictures. I'm coming!
How many flops is 100000 low cost PC:s?
+5 resist oppression (in case you haven't gotten this chain mail yet)
CORUSCANT-Presiding over a memorial service commemorating the victims
of the attack on the Death Star, the Emperor declared that while
recent victories over the Rebel Alliance were "encouraging, the War on
Terror is not over yet." "We will continue to fight these terrorists,
and the rogue governments who harbor them, until the universe is safe,
once and for all, and the security of the Neo-New Cosmic Order
ensured."
It was one year ago today that the Death Star, perhaps the
greatest symbol of the Empire's might, was destroyed in an attack by
fanatic Rebels, who used small, single-person crafts to infiltrate
seemingly impenetrable defenses. Thousands of mourners were on hand
to remember and pay tribute to the victims and their families. "We
lost our innocence that day," reflected one mourner. "I guess we
thought we were immune from the kind of violence that happens in other
galaxies. We were wrong." "I lost hundreds of buddies that day," said
one teary-eyed Stormtrooper. "Guys whose only crime was trying make
the Universe a safer place."
Although the day was colored by sadness,
the mourners found some relief in the news of a decisive victory over
the Rebels. In an attack led by Darth Vader, Empire forces were able
to rout hundreds of Rebels from a network of caves underneath the
surface of the planet Hoth. "We're not sure we got them all," says a
Vader spokesman. "There are a lot of places to hide in those
caves. But we've delivered a powerful blow to the terrorist's
infrastructure, that's for sure. Today, the Empire has struck back."
Initial reports are unclear as to the fate of Luke Skywalker, a hero
among the Rebels, who is rumored to have delivered the fatal blow to
the Death Star. Skywalker, a former desert-dweller from the planet
Tattooine, became a part of the Rebellion after family members were
killed. Skywalker was trained by a militant wing of the Rebels, known
as "Jedi Knights." Fanatical in their religious beliefs, the Jedi
Knights claim to derive their power from the mystical "Force." It's
believed that Skywalker was specifically trained by infamous terrorist
O bin Wankanobi.
Wankanobi, occasionally called "Ben" and easily
recognized by his bearded visage and long, flowing robes, achieved
near-martyr status among the Rebels after his death last year during a
spy mission. His more fervent followers believe that Wankanobi lives
on within them today, some even claiming to hear his voice during
times of duress.
The attack on the Death Star came shortly after the
Empire's destruction of Alderstaan, a planet whose government was
known to harbor terrorists. Responding to criticism over the total
annihilation of the planet, Vader stated, "There is no middle ground
in the War on Terror. Those who harbor terrorists are terrorists
themselves. Alderaan was issued ample warning. The fight for
continuing Freedom is often burdened by terrible cost." The cost of
this war can still be seen today in the continuing efforts to build a
coalition government on Tattooine. Longstanding animosities among the
planets various ethnic groups, including the Jawas, Tusken Raiders and
scattered human settlers, have been an impediment to the peace
process. The Empire continues to maintain a small peace keeping force
until a provisional government is finally in place.
Much of the
difficulty in fighting the Rebel forces stems from their lack of a
central organizing structure. "They don't play by the traditional
rules of war," complained one spokesman. "They come in all shapes and
sizes, united only by their single-minded desire to destroy the Empire
before it destroys them." The Emperor closed his comments today by
stating that "the cowardly attack n the Death Star left a deep scar on
the Empire. However, we will not stop fighting until every last
evildoer has been brought to justice." He paused for several moments,
wiping away a tear and then added with determination, "We will never
forget." "I wish we could"
Maybe because all Lisp (at least Common Lisp) programmer teams equal in size and intelligence to winning OCaml-programmer team are busy working in Google?
Or maybe because OCaml and other strongly typed languages attract the most intelligent people who have time to attend (read: academics love typesystems and clean functional languages, academics are smart).
I strongly suggest that commercial Common Lisp vendors Franz and Xanalys should throw their programmers into next years competition. If developers of CL can't compete against developers of OCaml then we can see if CL is any good.
btw. I'm taking the "replace ourselves with AI machines?" path you suggested. Resistance is futile. See Manna example
There is also new intrest for the insights of Carl Marx (yes! the guy communist's worship) among economist circles. Instead of suggesting that workers should make revolution and use violence. Marx tought that communism is rational outcome from capitalism (surprise!). You can actually see it coming. Machines and robots automate physical labour, now self servise machines (web pages, teller machines etc.) take away service jobs. Eventually there comes limit where most of the human population is not smart enough to have any job that pays real money (real money means enough $$$ to keep you realatively happy). Rich people have to pay to the poor so that they stay calm and don't become terrorists/unhappy/troublemakers. It does not nesseserily mean that there is big coverment controlling this. It may be realized as kind of insurance against masses. If you give the masses enough money to buy tv, beer, pizza and painkillers, without too heavy work they will not take take the hard route (can you imagine fat american suburbanists heading to the hills fighting guerilla war after Patriot Act Plus Plus takes finally away all their rights to privacy) and can't threaten the rich and powerful. All remaing agression can be directed to easily managed violence (see soccer hooliganism) where poor people fight poor in small scale.
The question is where you draw the line. Apparently almost all people draw the line into where they stand. You feel that your case is where the bad situation begings. But why should other peopole feel same way? If you are not dying I don't care!
Ultimately everything revolves around world hunger. If you can solve that you can solve other problems too.