well, the 5400 (or whatever it's called) is surely optimised to run x86. However, if it is a risc chip inside, then doing a good job of emulating an 24164 (again, or whatever) should be a metter of giving the hardware 64 bit regs. These guys have a rather easily morphed (pun!) architecture.
Their value added is that they have the rollback/recover patent, the dynamic instruction cache patent, and quite some expertise in writing profile-based optimisers.
This should all translate very well to any number of architectures, no, amongst them 64 bit.
However, why would they want to, for now, is beyonf me. They want satisfactory speed and exceptional power consumption. As do I.
all CRTs have an exponential (or is it logarithmic?) response function. (Do LCDs too?). Anyway, they don't always have the same constant factor in the response function. So while 255 is 100% brightness, 50% brightness may be 160 instead of 128. Or maybe 80. You calculate this from the gamma, which controls how fast the exponential grows.
Having just the one gamma is an oversimplification of course. You'd really want all three R G B, and for really accurate color matching you'd want to work in maximum luminosity and what not. But just the one value is way better than none.
Ya know, I never could figure out why reverse-aspect monitors never caught on. when I hack I always end up fullscreening emacs and running follow mode (kicks but!) and horizontal split which turns it into a two column display.
The scrolling isn't perfect, which is why I want a reverse aspect ratio monitor.
Does anyone have a software solution? Like an X driver (server?) that just rotates the display 90 deg? Then you just stand the monitor on its side...
They know how often they've served up a page, so why would they need pixels to help them count pages visits. That leaves web-bugs as the only other possibility.
That said, I'm not sure what sort of tracking this would do... I mean they served you they page, so they know you're viewing it.
I thought web-bugs were typically used to check for email views? Anyone want to give me the 5 second lecture of how webbugs provide the site with information it normally wouldn't have?
I love these laws that specify open ended scopes. It really makes me shudder that either 1) someone sat down, thought this through, and thought it was a good idea, or b) just wrote it without pondering the consequences.
I don't know which is worse.
Computer Readable. They even _had_ rudimentary OCR back then so they knew of at least one case of conflict.
Hardware can be made pretty hard to reverse engineer. A couple of months ago, playing devil's IANAL (grin), I suggested that the industry would move to a decoder/decryptor/DA-conv on a chip. Make the packaging tamper-proof, and you have a system that is not really feasable to hack.
I'll leave it up to cypherpunks to work out a protocol that allows both disconnected use and pay-per-play, but back of the napkin indicates that it should be do-able. You'll need to give it battery backed memory to resist replay attacks, f.ex.
Since the output of the secure packing is analog, the input is secure digital, the pirate would be reduced to re-comressing re-sampled data. Presumably this will turn enough noses so that it isn't an option. (not that I can tell the difference, eh)
I just hope they built in sensors for extra-clickular activity.
I think a slow move to a gesture interface would be great: squeeze to drag, finger tap to select, heel to active (visualise driving a cartridge into a slot).
Or was that only a rumor or some prototype idea that I've dreamt is related to this mouse?
you know, if they'd made the double click open a new window for the link, that'd be the completely right thing to do. And since that is how I surf (about 90% of my links are done via the super tedious right-click-and-select-from-menu game -- yes, I miss my DU box w/ rightclick to open in new), I'd more than welcome this behavior.
You could submerge the bottom 2" maybe (the stand)
Quoth the egon (when asked about crossing the streams): "That would be bad."
This is a convection cooled device. Unless you're hoping it'll work like a water pipe, covering the intake holes at the bottome might not be such a great move.
The problem is that any gun big enough to make space lauches cheap is a real threat to the national security of any nation that is along the line of fire. If you can get the payload into [near] orbit, then that includes a lot of land.
Actually, the biggest usefulness of the gun wouldn't be to reach orbit directly (very high muzzle velocity needed), but rather to get rid of the need for the first stage booster. I read somewhere that x% of the fuel of a standard rocket is used to get it the initial y meters/sec velocity (where x is high and y is low).
Now this is an interesting topic. Are pointersafe languages more or less safe from a hacking perspective?
Normally, the easy answer is more safe, in a paretro-optimal sense of the word. However, there is always the urge to go from the [presumably expensive] address-space switching architecture to the [presumably cheaper] thread switching architecture when you go pointer safe.
You can do this because you trust the compiler, so separate applications will be unable to access each other's memory.
Of course, if it turns out that the compiler was untrustworthy, then you have a real problem on your hands. Now I don't mean that the compiler is compromised (a-la the wonderful gcc/login hack), but rather that a bug in its overflow protection code enables malicious explioits.
Since compilers are difficult to write, and typically not (?) audited for security, I'd be interested if anyone had had any experiences along these lines?
Wired (yes wired! they were cool back then...) had a cool article where bruce sterling checked out the physical cable that wired asia. (or something like that, it was a few years ago) anyway, they were laying two cables, one underwater, and one across land. Underwater is apparently a hassle to lay, but once laid, it has one very important advantage over land cable -- no backhoes.
The article explained that the cross-thai cable got dug up on a near monthly basis. You're supposed to check for that when getting your building permits, but... get real.
Sarcasm? Humor? maybe, but not terribly productive.
The guy has a point. The whole idea of the internet is robustness by redundant links.
Of course, the us government got sick and tired of paying for everyone, so they made companies take over. Of course, the last thing a company wants to be is redundant. This is a real problem. As more and more of the world's economy is channeled down these pipes, we are also seeing the pipes getting fewer and fewer.
Of course, the realistic concern isn't whether the companies that own the pipes will start blocking our pr0n, nor is it that malicious crackers will try to take down the net (this wouldn't really serve their purposes now, would it? They rely on the net more than most). Rather, a very modest and easy to come by amount of explosives can soon disrupt a large part of the world economy.
Previously, you (as a hypothetical terrorist, not a sarcarsic hand routing old timer) would have to take out most of downtown new york to do that (or frankfurt, more likely). Logistics nightmare, I'd imagine, and probably requiring a nuke lite.
Taking out MAE east, tho, is pretty much shooting fish in a barrel in comparison.
Ok, so satelite links are still in place. There is no way they could take up the slack. That's the point of the article. There is no slack. This is what is dangerous about the commercialisation of the internet.
The oldest (and only) cd-rom I have is yggdrasil with the 1.2.13 kernel on it. I've kinda just upgraded the whole system bit by bit, and now (like jefferson airplane) not one of the original components remain. (no! I tell a lie, still using the same crappy floppy & cd-rom drives -- they don't see much use).
In the spirit of the only stupid question being the unasked one,
Does it have to be a photon? Could a bozon held in a laser containment device (you know, one of those cooling things) (or maybe if it is charged an electromagnetic bottle) be used instead?
Photons have polarisation that can be measured. Are there any other attributes that can be observed in the same way, but perhaps applicable to non-photons?
oops. I kinda got off on a tanget there. The point remains however, that you are never entitled to free media (even replacement), regardless of the licence the content is under.
No, that would be buying a licence to view regardless of media (fair use).
The par-parent scenario had you buying the media, with a licence to view it _only from that media_. That's why everyone is pissed off. (this point was driven home by exagerating the onerousness of the licence)
Fair use says your licence to view is _regardless_ of media, (so if you have a scratched, unplayable CD, it is ok to make a copy from a friend to listen to) but the DVD license is media specific (dvds would prohibit you to replace damaged media with a copy from a friend).
This entire debate is whether having a licence that prohibits fair use is legal, basically.
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well, the 5400 (or whatever it's called) is surely optimised to run x86. However, if it is a risc chip inside, then doing a good job of emulating an 24164 (again, or whatever) should be a metter of giving the hardware 64 bit regs. These guys have a rather easily morphed (pun!) architecture.
Their value added is that they have the rollback/recover patent, the dynamic instruction cache patent, and quite some expertise in writing profile-based optimisers.
This should all translate very well to any number of architectures, no, amongst them 64 bit.
However, why would they want to, for now, is beyonf me. They want satisfactory speed and exceptional power consumption. As do I.
AFAIK,
all CRTs have an exponential (or is it logarithmic?) response function. (Do LCDs too?). Anyway, they don't always have the same constant factor in the response function. So while 255 is 100% brightness, 50% brightness may be 160 instead of 128. Or maybe 80. You calculate this from the gamma, which controls how fast the exponential grows.
Having just the one gamma is an oversimplification of course. You'd really want all three R G B, and for really accurate color matching you'd want to work in maximum luminosity and what not. But just the one value is way better than none.
Johan
It proves that people who are arrested cannot be winners of mainstream television contests. Bad publicity, ya know?
Ya know, I never could figure out why reverse-aspect monitors never caught on. when I hack I always end up fullscreening emacs and running follow mode (kicks but!) and horizontal split which turns it into a two column display.
The scrolling isn't perfect, which is why I want a reverse aspect ratio monitor.
Does anyone have a software solution? Like an X driver (server?) that just rotates the display 90 deg? Then you just stand the monitor on its side...
Wouldn't the two polarising layers cut the transmitted light to zero?
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They know how often they've served up a page, so why would they need pixels to help them count pages visits. That leaves web-bugs as the only other possibility.
That said, I'm not sure what sort of tracking this would do... I mean they served you they page, so they know you're viewing it.
I thought web-bugs were typically used to check for email views? Anyone want to give me the 5 second lecture of how webbugs provide the site with information it normally wouldn't have?
Ta.
I love these laws that specify open ended scopes. It really makes me shudder that either 1) someone sat down, thought this through, and thought it was a good idea, or b) just wrote it without pondering the consequences.
I don't know which is worse.
Computer Readable. They even _had_ rudimentary OCR back then so they knew of at least one case of conflict.
nja.
Hardware can be made pretty hard to reverse engineer. A couple of months ago, playing devil's IANAL (grin), I suggested that the industry would move to a decoder/decryptor/DA-conv on a chip. Make the packaging tamper-proof, and you have a system that is not really feasable to hack.
I'll leave it up to cypherpunks to work out a protocol that allows both disconnected use and pay-per-play, but back of the napkin indicates that it should be do-able. You'll need to give it battery backed memory to resist replay attacks, f.ex.
Since the output of the secure packing is analog, the input is secure digital, the pirate would be reduced to re-comressing re-sampled data. Presumably this will turn enough noses so that it isn't an option. (not that I can tell the difference, eh)
So, it can work, but infrastructure is a bitch.
Johan
I just hope they built in sensors for extra-clickular activity.
I think a slow move to a gesture interface would be great: squeeze to drag, finger tap to select, heel to active (visualise driving a cartridge into a slot).
Or was that only a rumor or some prototype idea that I've dreamt is related to this mouse?
you know, if they'd made the double click open a new window for the link, that'd be the completely right thing to do. And since that is how I surf (about 90% of my links are done via the super tedious right-click-and-select-from-menu game -- yes, I miss my DU box w/ rightclick to open in new), I'd more than welcome this behavior.
You could submerge the bottom 2" maybe (the stand)
Quoth the egon (when asked about crossing the streams): "That would be bad."
This is a convection cooled device. Unless you're hoping it'll work like a water pipe, covering the intake holes at the bottome might not be such a great move.
Correct Me If I'm Wrong
ok, so the rest of you smartypants got that already, but I'm slow today.
What about active/dynamic/unstable/whatever-it's-called steering, like we see in the newer fighter aircraft?
Wouldn't that be a feasable solution?
what about a really low exit velocity gun -- basically a long high speed elevator that gave your entire rocket an initial 100 m/s or so boost?
Nice and easy, w/o the mess of all the rumbling and shaking before the rocket lifts off?
Sure, but bull's dead. The mossad killed him.
The problem is that any gun big enough to make space lauches cheap is a real threat to the national security of any nation that is along the line of fire. If you can get the payload into [near] orbit, then that includes a lot of land.
Actually, the biggest usefulness of the gun wouldn't be to reach orbit directly (very high muzzle velocity needed), but rather to get rid of the need for the first stage booster. I read somewhere that x% of the fuel of a standard rocket is used to get it the initial y meters/sec velocity (where x is high and y is low).
Now this is an interesting topic. Are pointersafe languages more or less safe from a hacking perspective?
Normally, the easy answer is more safe, in a paretro-optimal sense of the word. However, there is always the urge to go from the [presumably expensive] address-space switching architecture to the [presumably cheaper] thread switching architecture when you go pointer safe.
You can do this because you trust the compiler, so separate applications will be unable to access each other's memory.
Of course, if it turns out that the compiler was untrustworthy, then you have a real problem on your hands. Now I don't mean that the compiler is compromised (a-la the wonderful gcc/login hack), but rather that a bug in its overflow protection code enables malicious explioits.
Since compilers are difficult to write, and typically not (?) audited for security, I'd be interested if anyone had had any experiences along these lines?
I notice lexus are still in business.
Wired (yes wired! they were cool back then...) had a cool article where bruce sterling checked out the physical cable that wired asia. (or something like that, it was a few years ago) anyway, they were laying two cables, one underwater, and one across land. Underwater is apparently a hassle to lay, but once laid, it has one very important advantage over land cable -- no backhoes.
... get real.
The article explained that the cross-thai cable got dug up on a near monthly basis. You're supposed to check for that when getting your building permits, but
Of course, I should stop use the term "Of course" to start every sentence, but of course, that is a habit that is hard to control...
eh.
Sarcasm? Humor? maybe, but not terribly productive.
The guy has a point. The whole idea of the internet is robustness by redundant links.
Of course, the us government got sick and tired of paying for everyone, so they made companies take over. Of course, the last thing a company wants to be is redundant. This is a real problem. As more and more of the world's economy is channeled down these pipes, we are also seeing the pipes getting fewer and fewer.
Of course, the realistic concern isn't whether the companies that own the pipes will start blocking our pr0n, nor is it that malicious crackers will try to take down the net (this wouldn't really serve their purposes now, would it? They rely on the net more than most).
Rather, a very modest and easy to come by amount of explosives can soon disrupt a large part of the world economy.
Previously, you (as a hypothetical terrorist, not a sarcarsic hand routing old timer) would have to take out most of downtown new york to do that (or frankfurt, more likely). Logistics nightmare, I'd imagine, and probably requiring a nuke lite.
Taking out MAE east, tho, is pretty much shooting fish in a barrel in comparison.
Ok, so satelite links are still in place. There is no way they could take up the slack. That's the point of the article. There is no slack.
This is what is dangerous about the commercialisation of the internet.
The oldest (and only) cd-rom I have is yggdrasil with the 1.2.13 kernel on it. I've kinda just upgraded the whole system bit by bit, and now (like jefferson airplane) not one of the original components remain. (no! I tell a lie, still using the same crappy floppy & cd-rom drives -- they don't see much use).
I believe... (ie, I'm making this up as I go along) that polarisation is preseved by reflection.
In the spirit of the only stupid question being the unasked one,
Does it have to be a photon? Could a bozon held in a laser containment device (you know, one of those cooling things) (or maybe if it is charged an electromagnetic bottle) be used instead?
Photons have polarisation that can be measured. Are there any other attributes that can be observed in the same way, but perhaps applicable to non-photons?
oops. I kinda got off on a tanget there. The point remains however, that you are never entitled to free media (even replacement), regardless of the licence the content is under.
No, that would be buying a licence to view regardless of media (fair use).
The par-parent scenario had you buying the media, with a licence to view it _only from that media_. That's why everyone is pissed off. (this point was driven home by exagerating the onerousness of the licence)
Fair use says your licence to view is _regardless_ of media, (so if you have a scratched, unplayable CD, it is ok to make a copy from a friend to listen to) but the DVD license is media specific (dvds would prohibit you to replace damaged media with a copy from a friend).
This entire debate is whether having a licence that prohibits fair use is legal, basically.