yes but it didn't come out THIS year. The original version was released a couple years earlier if I remember right. It's not a new release, just a "remaster" if yo uwill.
to BitTorrent's creators. You mean BitTorrent's creator (Bram Cohen)? That makes this even more amazing that one person is responsible for all this traffic. I wonder if he will ever be personally sued for creating this software...
From the photo, it looks like they're using Opto22 I/O modules as part of the system. I didn't think I'd ever see those things used in a computer setup! It looks like a fun project.
I've been using this as a replacement for Matlab until I get a student ID and have a chance to purchase Matlab. It works, and I like using python and all, but the graphing capabilities of Scipy are just horrible. You simply don't have as many options as Matlab for visualizing your data, which is an important feature to me.
I've also tried matplotlib but it lacks many features and crashes often on my machine.
I would recommend Mathcad as the simplest, easiest to use math tool. It's not as powerful as Matlab, but much easier to use.
I was almost hoping I could buy one of those herman miller aeron chairs from an auction like this. I have one at work, but I can't afford the $600-$800 it would cost to buy one for home.
They probably only auction these things in huge lots. So you'd probably have to buy 50 chairs for $5,000 or whatever it bids at.
Hmm... charging $5/hr for that game station would require them to sell at least 160 hours per station just to pay for the chairs!
They are really comfortable chairs, I have one at work. If you add the cost of PC + projector + land + other expenses, I have a hard time believing a place like this could be profitable in their first year or two. By then, the novelty of it would wear off I think.
I might get modded down for saying this, but I've never been very impressed with any of these "mods". They essentially just take apart a mini color TV, and a game console, reconnect the wires, and stuff it in a different shapped box. Sure, it's a great achivement and all, but I don't really consider these mods in the computer/hacker sense.
A true portable mod would be creating a new hardware system from scratch, and emulating the original system %100 perfectly. Of course, this would take a different technical skill set and the overall package might not be as attractive.
Wait a sec. Useless feature? Maybe the older style camera's that were only 320x240 resolution. The newer ones take more reasonable pictures, at least good enough that you can document events, part of your life. I use it all the time to take pictures of friends and I show them the pictures if they missed an event or something. It's a fun, useful feature.
I've also found it useful for taking quick notes of things. Like if I see a product in a store, or a writing somewhere I can just take a picture of it as a memo instead of trying to copy text down.
Yes, it's a pain I can't take my cellphone into work, but who cares? I have a phone at my desk, if I need to call someone or need to be contacted, it's not a problem.
Can't wait until the have built in video projectors in cellphones. It will happen soon.
Maybe the problem is the market is already saturated with Palm's that do exactly what their owners need to do? I mean, why would you buy a new palm if it has the same features you already have?
The advantage Microsoft has is that PocketPC hardware has followed Moore's law, and thus there is an insentive for consumers to keep purchasing new devices. By the same token, Moore's law has reduced the cost of the hardware (and end product) for Palms (the low end models) to such a level that it probably isn't nearly as profitable anymore. You can't even compare PocketPC's and Palm devices anymore, they are so much different from eachother in what they do it's unfair.
I think there is only one reason this hydrogen station was opened in Washington D.C.
My guess is, they hope having a demonstration fleet in D.C. will make the technology more visible to politicians and try to convince them to buy government vehicles that run on this technology, regardless of how cost effective it actually is.
"Shell officials hope it'll get a lot of attention -- and, eventually, use."
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I play with the arrow keys and can hit or hold control or shift with the left side of my left hand and still use my pinky or ringfinger to hit enter or the single-quote key, while using my pointer or thumb to hit keys on the number pad.
Just curious, why not just use WASD, or better yet ESDF for movement keys? With ESDF you can easilly reach half the letters on the keyboard for control.
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This is bizzare... Why can't you just plug a USB keyboard/Mouse into an XBOX? Or... does Microsoft discourage that?
Using floating point math would be SEVERAL times worse than this. The reason is that floating point values (16 bit) can only express about 7 digits so:
800,000.0 + 1.0 = 800,000.0
BUT!
8,000,000 + 1.0 = 8,000,000
or something like that. You'll end up losing votes after a certain count. 32 bit floats may do better, but you'll still start accumulating rounding errors.
I went in to Best Buy to purchase a VCR (of all antiquated things...) and the price was roughly $50. I started looking for a cheapo RCA A/V cable to connect it to my TV card and I stop at an entire isle of gold platted A/V cables.
$30 for a 12 foot A/V cable??? I had to search through an obscure rack in the store that had items without price tags to find a cheaper one that ended up being $15.
When you consider that they were even selling a DVD player for $50 it's obvious that they are actually making all their profits off of people buying accessories and other extras.
Memorizing a few hundred digits of pi isn't too difficult. I had about 200 digits memorized at one point, although not for a grade, but just for my own amusement. Don't ask.
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Look, the reason I'm against any taxation of the internet is that we ALREADY have enough taxes! By taxing the internet and everything I mentioned, it creates a brand new tax system on top of the taxes we are already paying.
As far as the 911 services, I believe they should simply take it out of whatever general fund already exists instead of tacking it onto phone bills.
My point is, the tax system is already too complex as is. Adding an additional tax and fee for everything they can think of on the internet just makes it more complicated and innefficient.
sound like you just don't want to put a crowbar in your wallet and pay for it.
With more and more cellphones having internet connectivity built into them, it seems like a wast of time to implement a feeble search feature as an SMS service.
I've used Google's WAP proxy on my phone to search for information, and although it works it's terribly slow. It takes about 5 min to read through an entire webpage because it splits it up into little peices.
Yahoo Mobile search is VERY good though. I'm impressed that it's a complete search solution as a yellow pages. Now if only we could do something about these small cellphone screens....
You're assuming a few incorrect things about Wiki's (as far as the use in business).
1. Just because content is posted on a wiki, doesn't mean that most people have any interest in reading or changing it.
2. Most Wiki's are not anonymous have a significant amount of change control built into them. If someone comes along and messes something up, it's easy to change back.
3. You can lockout pages for editing. If you decide that a document on a wiki is complete, you can flag it as such so random people don't edit it.
Something as simple as 'a == b' may easily add few KB to the kernel.
Isn't this more of a flaw in whatever C++ compiler is being used? I would think that a fully optimized compiler would be efficient enough for you to balance size/speed correctly.
If anything, C++ as a language is superior to C as far as being able to better describe whatever algorithm you are using. It's just a matter of efficiently converting that higher level of abstraction into efficient op codes.
Here's one reason it takes so long: you have to construct a special building to put a large super computer in. That could take several months to years to complete. You can't just set up computers in any old warehouse, you need the proper power, air conditioning systems, cable conduits, etc...
Bringing pre manufactured super computers into the building is probably the easiest step.
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yes but it didn't come out THIS year. The original version was released a couple years earlier if I remember right. It's not a new release, just a "remaster" if yo uwill.
to BitTorrent's creators.
You mean BitTorrent's creator (Bram Cohen)? That makes this even more amazing that one person is responsible for all this traffic. I wonder if he will ever be personally sued for creating this software...
From the photo, it looks like they're using Opto22 I/O modules as part of the system. I didn't think I'd ever see those things used in a computer setup! It looks like a fun project.
I've been using this as a replacement for Matlab until I get a student ID and have a chance to purchase Matlab. It works, and I like using python and all, but the graphing capabilities of Scipy are just horrible. You simply don't have as many options as Matlab for visualizing your data, which is an important feature to me.
I've also tried matplotlib but it lacks many features and crashes often on my machine.
I would recommend Mathcad as the simplest, easiest to use math tool. It's not as powerful as Matlab, but much easier to use.
I run RAID0 with 2 drives right now and it's kind of scary to think if one drive fails I lose everything (inbetween my weekly or monthly backups).
Your data would have to be pretty worthless to run RAID0 with 4 drives.
How much of a warranty does this have? Better be at least 3 years. 5 would be better.
I was almost hoping I could buy one of those herman miller aeron chairs from an auction like this. I have one at work, but I can't afford the $600-$800 it would cost to buy one for home.
They probably only auction these things in huge lots. So you'd probably have to buy 50 chairs for $5,000 or whatever it bids at.
Hmm... charging $5/hr for that game station would require them to sell at least 160 hours per station just to pay for the chairs!
They are really comfortable chairs, I have one at work. If you add the cost of PC + projector + land + other expenses, I have a hard time believing a place like this could be profitable in their first year or two. By then, the novelty of it would wear off I think.
Who says precident is law? It isn't. By setting new precident, judges are just re-writing laws instead of following what is already written.
I might get modded down for saying this, but I've never been very impressed with any of these "mods". They essentially just take apart a mini color TV, and a game console, reconnect the wires, and stuff it in a different shapped box. Sure, it's a great achivement and all, but I don't really consider these mods in the computer/hacker sense.
A true portable mod would be creating a new hardware system from scratch, and emulating the original system %100 perfectly. Of course, this would take a different technical skill set and the overall package might not be as attractive.
Wait a sec. Useless feature? Maybe the older style camera's that were only 320x240 resolution. The newer ones take more reasonable pictures, at least good enough that you can document events, part of your life. I use it all the time to take pictures of friends and I show them the pictures if they missed an event or something. It's a fun, useful feature.
I've also found it useful for taking quick notes of things. Like if I see a product in a store, or a writing somewhere I can just take a picture of it as a memo instead of trying to copy text down.
Yes, it's a pain I can't take my cellphone into work, but who cares? I have a phone at my desk, if I need to call someone or need to be contacted, it's not a problem.
Can't wait until the have built in video projectors in cellphones. It will happen soon.
exactly what it needs to do very well.
Maybe the problem is the market is already saturated with Palm's that do exactly what their owners need to do? I mean, why would you buy a new palm if it has the same features you already have?
The advantage Microsoft has is that PocketPC hardware has followed Moore's law, and thus there is an insentive for consumers to keep purchasing new devices. By the same token, Moore's law has reduced the cost of the hardware (and end product) for Palms (the low end models) to such a level that it probably isn't nearly as profitable anymore. You can't even compare PocketPC's and Palm devices anymore, they are so much different from eachother in what they do it's unfair.
I think there is only one reason this hydrogen station was opened in Washington D.C.
My guess is, they hope having a demonstration fleet in D.C. will make the technology more visible to politicians and try to convince them to buy government vehicles that run on this technology, regardless of how cost effective it actually is.
"Shell officials hope it'll get a lot of attention -- and, eventually, use."
I play with the arrow keys and can hit or hold control or shift with the left side of my left hand and still use my pinky or ringfinger to hit enter or the single-quote key, while using my pointer or thumb to hit keys on the number pad.
Just curious, why not just use WASD, or better yet ESDF for movement keys? With ESDF you can easilly reach half the letters on the keyboard for control.
This is bizzare... Why can't you just plug a USB keyboard/Mouse into an XBOX? Or... does Microsoft discourage that?
oops, I meant 800,000.0 + 1.0 = 800,001.0
Using floating point math would be SEVERAL times worse than this. The reason is that floating point values (16 bit) can only express about 7 digits so:
800,000.0 + 1.0 = 800,000.0
BUT!
8,000,000 + 1.0 = 8,000,000
or something like that. You'll end up losing votes after a certain count. 32 bit floats may do better, but you'll still start accumulating rounding errors.
looks like someone was trying to optimize the software or it was horribly written in C/C++.
At the very LEAST they should have used 32 bit integers for ALL integers in the program.
Someone didn't write their unit tests!
I went in to Best Buy to purchase a VCR (of all antiquated things...) and the price was roughly $50. I started looking for a cheapo RCA A/V cable to connect it to my TV card and I stop at an entire isle of gold platted A/V cables.
$30 for a 12 foot A/V cable??? I had to search through an obscure rack in the store that had items without price tags to find a cheaper one that ended up being $15.
When you consider that they were even selling a DVD player for $50 it's obvious that they are actually making all their profits off of people buying accessories and other extras.
I'm reminded of this
Memorizing a few hundred digits of pi isn't too difficult. I had about 200 digits memorized at one point, although not for a grade, but just for my own amusement. Don't ask.
Look, the reason I'm against any taxation of the internet is that we ALREADY have enough taxes! By taxing the internet and everything I mentioned, it creates a brand new tax system on top of the taxes we are already paying.
As far as the 911 services, I believe they should simply take it out of whatever general fund already exists instead of tacking it onto phone bills.
My point is, the tax system is already too complex as is. Adding an additional tax and fee for everything they can think of on the internet just makes it more complicated and innefficient.
sound like you just don't want to put a crowbar in your wallet and pay for it.
I think you are starting to understand.
Wants to tax the internet?
Tax online shopping?
Tax VoIP?
Denies access to frequency spectrum that could currently be used more efficiently for broadband internet?
If anything there is STILL too much goverment regulation.
With more and more cellphones having internet connectivity built into them, it seems like a wast of time to implement a feeble search feature as an SMS service.
I've used Google's WAP proxy on my phone to search for information, and although it works it's terribly slow. It takes about 5 min to read through an entire webpage because it splits it up into little peices.
Yahoo Mobile search is VERY good though. I'm impressed that it's a complete search solution as a yellow pages. Now if only we could do something about these small cellphone screens....
You're assuming a few incorrect things about Wiki's (as far as the use in business).
1. Just because content is posted on a wiki, doesn't mean that most people have any interest in reading or changing it.
2. Most Wiki's are not anonymous have a significant amount of change control built into them. If someone comes along and messes something up, it's easy to change back.
3. You can lockout pages for editing. If you decide that a document on a wiki is complete, you can flag it as such so random people don't edit it.
Something as simple as 'a == b' may easily add few KB to the kernel.
Isn't this more of a flaw in whatever C++ compiler is being used? I would think that a fully optimized compiler would be efficient enough for you to balance size/speed correctly.
If anything, C++ as a language is superior to C as far as being able to better describe whatever algorithm you are using. It's just a matter of efficiently converting that higher level of abstraction into efficient op codes.
Here's one reason it takes so long: you have to construct a special building to put a large super computer in. That could take several months to years to complete. You can't just set up computers in any old warehouse, you need the proper power, air conditioning systems, cable conduits, etc...
Bringing pre manufactured super computers into the building is probably the easiest step.