The iPod is fully usable under linux, has been for some time. Mounting to add and delete files was easy since it's just a firewire disk, the db support to actually list the songs took a little while, but since Ephpod was open source all that work was easy to replicate on linux.
My mp3's and ogg's average around 200-220 kbps. This to me is archival quality as I can almost never pick the files out from the source (occassionally I find a problem with ogg, but thats more rare every release). I use Sennheiser headphones even with my iPod so I DO hear the difference.
In game graphics might not but the clusters at film houses now do photorealistic effects in basically real time (batching not withstanding). While I don't disagree with your setiment that this is simply pundits being overly optimistic and upbeat I do think they might have some kernal of truth, of course the devices will be much less automated and much less usefull then these guys are fortelling, but maybe we will have some kinds of smart agents to help us in 15 years.
Dumb agents that are tailored and tweaked constantly for specific tasks aren't very good yet, yet somehow omniscient agents that percieve my needs are supposed to be reality in 5 years??? Not likely. AI is a TOUGH problem, I remember when I started looking into it seriously in 97, since then not a whole hell of a lot has changed on the software front. On the hardware front we have gained some decent speed which allows more naive approaches to work. For instance in 96 some researchers made one of the first computer vision system that could read sign language in near real time, but it had to run on a $40K Indigo Graphics workstation, today that same computing power is cheaply available, but I still don't have voice dictation software that takes less time to correct than it takes me to just type in the first place. Somehow I don't see stellar leaps being made in the next 5 years when it has been slow and grueling progress over the last 40.
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1,100 sq ft apartment $550/month Food: $350-400/month Taxes: $Not much Auto: $6K/vehicle every 4-5 years and $100/month for insurance.
About $1500/month to survive or only $9.40/hour
Guess it pays to live in the midwest and be frugal =)
Oh yes and that is with a family of 3. I've been basically unemployed since January and yet have had no problems meeting my bills because I was smart and saved up while I was making $50K/year, unlike most Americans.
I did read the paper, my solution solves the first problem presented (outwitting the system) but does not solve the second. The second is really less of a real world problem because most systems store an actual photos and other information about a person, not just their ID mask. Compromising the database in those cases would give much more than trying to reverse the algorithm to get a rough picture of a person.
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This is probably illegal, under current rules the government has a very dim view of classifying non-exempt employees as exempt. Of course with big business owning the whitehouse and a large mindshare in the house and senate (on both sides of the aisle) this is probably going to change. Of course then once the economy picks up unions will probably gain a resurgence in membership because people will be disgusted with working 60 hour work weeks for 40 hours pay.
Only where there is contact, and if you mold the image to contact your face in more places you distort it to the point that it no longer matches the image map.
Just check for thermal patterns, most CCD's used for image recognition can see near infra-red so just check to see if the image is a person with a pulse. A piece of paper isn't going to give off heat like a person does =)
Guess you should move to the US, last year the Supreme Court here ruled that the police must obtain a search warrant to use thermal imaging, portable xray, and any other technique to invade a persons home. In the UK the populace has basically acquiesced and allowed big brother to come much closer to reality then I care for.
conventional xray machines detect the properties of explosives and false color image them as red or orange depending on type. I'm not sure if they get enough info out of the backscatter technique to do something similar or not.
You can't run production boxes on MSDN liscenses. Read the liscense some time and figure out what you get, basically the ability to run the software in a lab environment and access to the detailed information and a certain number of help requests per anum.
As do I. That sound was one of the most impressive things I had ever seen at the time. I also remember playing the DnD game for the Intellivision which was my first CRPG.
They sort of did, the first edition of WinCE ran in some rediculously small amount of ram, and it had support for a large subset of Win32 system calls. Sure it had its problems but it's not like MS has never written a fairly svelte OS.
SPEC 2000 is a benchmark comprised of real code used in scientific and media applications so if you can optimize for it you are making optimizations that have real world impact.
Near the bottom of the list are a bunch of clusters made with 100 odd workstation class machines on ethernet, so a well wired office of engineering computers could probably make the list. Guess that's why Beowolf is so popular and why US export restrictions are so retarded (not to mention that the Japanese or Europeans will be happy to sell most countries a supercomputer for "oil exploration" or the like) (yes I realize that oil exploration from 3D seismogrophy is a legit use for a supercomputer, it's just that many countries that would want to get their hands on large computers for military purposes would also be able to disguide it as an economic purchase of that type.)
More like common practive before 1997(?) when patent extensions were fixed, basically by revising a small part of your patent you could extend the filing deadline by 5(?) years each time, so by continuously modifying the patent you could put of granting of the application until the underlying technology was widespread and then go after people who in good faith believed they were using unencumbered technology. This is no longer possible because of reforms put in place specifically to stop this tactic, now a patent if valid from 1 year from the filing date with a one time extension of several years for patents in certain situations.
The.NET framework (what most people are refering to when they say.NET) is analageous to the core of Java. The Common Language Runtime is the actual virtual machine and support a wide variety of languages including the open C# progrogramming language (the definition of the language is open but not all classes are).
The Power4+ uses 128MB of L3 cache so it is not a fair or direct comparison, the G5 needs about 33% faster clockrate to equal the performance of the Power4+. Currently the highest Specfp_base2000 other than the Power4+ 1.5Ghz is the 1Ghz Itanium 2, amazing that Intel's workstation/big server processor manages to perform about as well as Power4+ with a 50% higher clockrate, guess they can design a decent core when they aren't going after the consumer crowd with the Ghz matters.
Those number make sense if you look at the Power4+ results, the Power4+ is faster at 1.5Ghz then the 3Ghz P4 but uses 128MB L3 cache, so up the speed and remove a ton of L3 and it makes sense you get about the same results. Of course I want to see optimized results with a 3.2Ghz P4 using Intel's compiler vs a 2Ghz G5 using Apples best Altivec optimizing compiler.
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Seems pretty reasonable, just speced a 1.6Ghz Opteron, 512MB DDR ECC (PC2100), DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, GiG-E, 80GB Segate SATA drive, Audigy 2 OEM, Win XP Home, ~$2,000, and if the Apple comes with an FX it will have much better graphics (was using onboard because it was not going to be used for anything graphics intensive). Plus Velocity Engine is MUCH better than SSE2 for vector ops.
Since 1998, Win98 OEM $80 (building the PC myself and it was bought bundled with a hardware purchase so it was legit), 98SE upgrade $80, WinXP Home Upgrade $80, Total in 5 years $240, so in five times as long I have paid 25% less, not to mention that I have paid about 1/3rd for equivilantly performing hardware. Apple has their strongpoints but price has never been one of them.
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The iPod is fully usable under linux, has been for some time. Mounting to add and delete files was easy since it's just a firewire disk, the db support to actually list the songs took a little while, but since Ephpod was open source all that work was easy to replicate on linux.
My mp3's and ogg's average around 200-220 kbps. This to me is archival quality as I can almost never pick the files out from the source (occassionally I find a problem with ogg, but thats more rare every release). I use Sennheiser headphones even with my iPod so I DO hear the difference.
In game graphics might not but the clusters at film houses now do photorealistic effects in basically real time (batching not withstanding). While I don't disagree with your setiment that this is simply pundits being overly optimistic and upbeat I do think they might have some kernal of truth, of course the devices will be much less automated and much less usefull then these guys are fortelling, but maybe we will have some kinds of smart agents to help us in 15 years.
Dumb agents that are tailored and tweaked constantly for specific tasks aren't very good yet, yet somehow omniscient agents that percieve my needs are supposed to be reality in 5 years??? Not likely. AI is a TOUGH problem, I remember when I started looking into it seriously in 97, since then not a whole hell of a lot has changed on the software front. On the hardware front we have gained some decent speed which allows more naive approaches to work. For instance in 96 some researchers made one of the first computer vision system that could read sign language in near real time, but it had to run on a $40K Indigo Graphics workstation, today that same computing power is cheaply available, but I still don't have voice dictation software that takes less time to correct than it takes me to just type in the first place. Somehow I don't see stellar leaps being made in the next 5 years when it has been slow and grueling progress over the last 40.
1,100 sq ft apartment $550/month
Food: $350-400/month
Taxes: $Not much
Auto: $6K/vehicle every 4-5 years and $100/month for insurance.
About $1500/month to survive or only $9.40/hour
Guess it pays to live in the midwest and be frugal =)
Oh yes and that is with a family of 3. I've been basically unemployed since January and yet have had no problems meeting my bills because I was smart and saved up while I was making $50K/year, unlike most Americans.
I did read the paper, my solution solves the first problem presented (outwitting the system) but does not solve the second. The second is really less of a real world problem because most systems store an actual photos and other information about a person, not just their ID mask. Compromising the database in those cases would give much more than trying to reverse the algorithm to get a rough picture of a person.
This is probably illegal, under current rules the government has a very dim view of classifying non-exempt employees as exempt. Of course with big business owning the whitehouse and a large mindshare in the house and senate (on both sides of the aisle) this is probably going to change. Of course then once the economy picks up unions will probably gain a resurgence in membership because people will be disgusted with working 60 hour work weeks for 40 hours pay.
Only where there is contact, and if you mold the image to contact your face in more places you distort it to the point that it no longer matches the image map.
Just check for thermal patterns, most CCD's used for image recognition can see near infra-red so just check to see if the image is a person with a pulse. A piece of paper isn't going to give off heat like a person does =)
Guess you should move to the US, last year the Supreme Court here ruled that the police must obtain a search warrant to use thermal imaging, portable xray, and any other technique to invade a persons home. In the UK the populace has basically acquiesced and allowed big brother to come much closer to reality then I care for.
conventional xray machines detect the properties of explosives and false color image them as red or orange depending on type. I'm not sure if they get enough info out of the backscatter technique to do something similar or not.
You can't run production boxes on MSDN liscenses. Read the liscense some time and figure out what you get, basically the ability to run the software in a lab environment and access to the detailed information and a certain number of help requests per anum.
As do I. That sound was one of the most impressive things I had ever seen at the time. I also remember playing the DnD game for the Intellivision which was my first CRPG.
They sort of did, the first edition of WinCE ran in some rediculously small amount of ram, and it had support for a large subset of Win32 system calls. Sure it had its problems but it's not like MS has never written a fairly svelte OS.
SPEC 2000 is a benchmark comprised of real code used in scientific and media applications so if you can optimize for it you are making optimizations that have real world impact.
Near the bottom of the list are a bunch of clusters made with 100 odd workstation class machines on ethernet, so a well wired office of engineering computers could probably make the list. Guess that's why Beowolf is so popular and why US export restrictions are so retarded (not to mention that the Japanese or Europeans will be happy to sell most countries a supercomputer for "oil exploration" or the like) (yes I realize that oil exploration from 3D seismogrophy is a legit use for a supercomputer, it's just that many countries that would want to get their hands on large computers for military purposes would also be able to disguide it as an economic purchase of that type.)
because the owners specifically wanted them to be in limbo and because the old rules allowed this type of abuse.
More like common practive before 1997(?) when patent extensions were fixed, basically by revising a small part of your patent you could extend the filing deadline by 5(?) years each time, so by continuously modifying the patent you could put of granting of the application until the underlying technology was widespread and then go after people who in good faith believed they were using unencumbered technology. This is no longer possible because of reforms put in place specifically to stop this tactic, now a patent if valid from 1 year from the filing date with a one time extension of several years for patents in certain situations.
The .NET framework (what most people are refering to when they say .NET) is analageous to the core of Java. The Common Language Runtime is the actual virtual machine and support a wide variety of languages including the open C# progrogramming language (the definition of the language is open but not all classes are).
The Power4+ uses 128MB of L3 cache so it is not a fair or direct comparison, the G5 needs about 33% faster clockrate to equal the performance of the Power4+. Currently the highest Specfp_base2000 other than the Power4+ 1.5Ghz is the 1Ghz Itanium 2, amazing that Intel's workstation/big server processor manages to perform about as well as Power4+ with a 50% higher clockrate, guess they can design a decent core when they aren't going after the consumer crowd with the Ghz matters.
Intel optimizing compiler is available for Linux.
Those number make sense if you look at the Power4+ results, the Power4+ is faster at 1.5Ghz then the 3Ghz P4 but uses 128MB L3 cache, so up the speed and remove a ton of L3 and it makes sense you get about the same results. Of course I want to see optimized results with a 3.2Ghz P4 using Intel's compiler vs a 2Ghz G5 using Apples best Altivec optimizing compiler.
Seems pretty reasonable, just speced a 1.6Ghz Opteron, 512MB DDR ECC (PC2100), DVD-ROM, DVD-RW, GiG-E, 80GB Segate SATA drive, Audigy 2 OEM, Win XP Home, ~$2,000, and if the Apple comes with an FX it will have much better graphics (was using onboard because it was not going to be used for anything graphics intensive). Plus Velocity Engine is MUCH better than SSE2 for vector ops.
Since 1998, Win98 OEM $80 (building the PC myself and it was bought bundled with a hardware purchase so it was legit), 98SE upgrade $80, WinXP Home Upgrade $80, Total in 5 years $240, so in five times as long I have paid 25% less, not to mention that I have paid about 1/3rd for equivilantly performing hardware. Apple has their strongpoints but price has never been one of them.
I thought you could.
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