This seems like the downside to globally-distributed networks. Even the NYC meeting only has 8 people right now. Depending on where I choose to go, I will immediately double the attendance at either NJ event. If I start my own, I'll probably be the only attendee.
There is an IBM patent on nano-stamping (which I can't seem to locate due to all the other IBM and stamping patents) which describes a technique developed after noticing that very small errors were being reproduced from the CD plate repeatably in the final produced CDs. I was reading this article at least 8 years ago.
Don't cross the streams!... but seriously. What kind of name is that? No one is going to call it Nintendo Stream, they'll call it Wii 2 or Wii Stream. All the work of name recognition that was done for the Wii will have to be done again for this new system unless they come up with a 'backwards compatible' name. Rumors and speculation, the article says.
Being based on an AMD Fusion platform, however, maybe they want to move the programming model toward using 'stream processors' and have computation on the GPU as well. Then again, this is my own rumor and speculation. The stream-to-touchscreen controllers sound like the Dreamcast VMU brought into the future.
I am just now preparing to replace that motherboard because the SATA stuff is crapping out and not booting successfully about 3 out of 4 times. I have a socket 939 dual-core Toledo with the ULi M1695/M1567 chipset that allowed for the AGP (Radeon 9800 XT) and later PCIe video (nVidia 8800 GTX).
While I didn't take advantage of it, there was the future CPU expansion slot that provided the upgrade path you mentioned but I never found anyone selling the actual socket. Still, an interesting and forward-thinking design.
Great board, I wish there was a good replacement available but the prices have gone down and come back up, so I may as well get myself into a quad- or hex-core on a motherboard with USB3... Still, it served me very well for the last 4 years.
I purchased a G1 from eBay and was lucky enough to get an extended battery (but not the back cover) and I successfully used it for wifi-only development for about 1.5 years. It worked out pretty well, the keyboard held up during that time, and aside from the slower processor speed, I was able to do what I wanted to do without much issue. The GPS acquisition time was much slower than my then-gf's MyTouch 3G, but I suspect the better hardware as well as some hints from the cell signal were responsible for that.
The only problem I had was that my particular device (or the way I did it) wasn't quite compatible with the CyanogenMod Froyo firmware and was unstable, froze and/or crashed a lot. I'd give it another try but I can't make it boot and haven't been back to the recovery console since I bought my G2 (soon to be AT&T-Mobile, grumble).
I was wondering how best to take long exposure images and not have the dark areas be over-exposed a while ago and I just came across this light-painting plugin for the video editor KDEnlive: http://www.kdenlive.org/users/granjow/light-graffiti-2nd Their plugin demo video is pretty neat and I would assume could be applied to video that has already been filmed and properly modified to enhance the brighter areas.
Is this the same budget that is proposing cutting to zero the funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? These programs provide far more social good and support democracy (a viewpoint I am still not quite jaded about, yet). There are so many other places to cut and other sources of tax revenue that should be explored long before this is considered. There are projects that the Pentagon doesn't even want but are still funded. Maybe the cast of Sesame Street should show up in DC and TEACH THEM SOME MATH.
Funny you should mention this... There was widespread talk about using 'white hat worms' to patch systems infected with Code Red and Nimda, both enabled by bugs in MS products. The idea was that it would remove and patch infected/compromised systems and inoculate systems that had not yet been targeted.
I'm pretty sure there have been ideas floated around to distribute vaccines through alternate means similar to what MS is trying to patent.
This is why the markets creep up on almost no volume and everyone wonders why stocks drop so quickly when someone sells a large enough block of stocks. These programs are the reason for the 'flash crash' and not the ridiculous 'typo by a trader' explanation. The argument of 'providing liquidity' doesn't really seem like it has that much value for a normal investor. It's robots all the way down!
The funny thing about the great flexibility that the frameworks like Spring provide is that you are defining the functionality in the XML files instead of the code, but now you have to learn two languages. The nestable list structure of Lisp is almost the same as the hierarchical format of XML, and in fact, that is how they are often represented natively in Lisp XML parsers. Instead, you could just use one language, structure your data properly, and extend the language to fit your problem.
Macros in Lisp were introduced in the mid-1960s and are a powerful way to extend that language. However, the syntax of Lisp is very regular, so adapting the power of the prefix notation of Lisp into a language with a procedural syntax like Java is not going to be too easy.
I'm a little surprised that there isn't more mention of Lisp in this thread, considering that the lambda calculus that it was built on is the source of the name for one of the language projects.
Being able to transparently extend your language is a powerful tool that Lisp exploits to full advantage, provided the programmer knows when to use them. The regular syntax, functions as first-class objects (treated the same way as variables), and the macro system are the three features that build upon each other to make it such a flexible language.
I had exactly this experience with Overstock.com only I was looking at how much a set of real silverware cost as I was considering making it a wedding present... Yeah, I'm not made of money. So now I get to see the same damn picture of the $3K set that I will *never* buy on sites that I had never even noticed an overstock banner on before. (If they weren't swimming in flatware already, I was going to consider silver plated for a much more reasonable price.)
It almost reminds me of that scene in Fahrenheit 451, yelling back at the ad for Denham's Dentifrice. At least they aren't congratulating me on winning something in a terrible synthesized voice.
Funny enough, the 'random' quote at the bottom of this page of comments is this:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
That is not to say that there is no wonder in the world, and that there are some things still unexplained, but to ignore an explanation when one exists is anti-science and tends toward willful, enthusiastic ignorance.
Why not just develop a design to swap out batteries through an automated crane? Pull in, the robot arm removes your empty battery and replaces it with a full one. The empty battery charges at whatever pace the 'gas' station deems necessary (maybe overnight when prices are lower) and the driver has a full charge within seconds. I'm almost certain I saw this idea put forth on/. in the past.
Definitely write some code. When you are done with that, though, give a look at Common Lisp: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/ Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David S. Touretzky, or http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. Then, learn to use Clojure to tie the two (functional programming and JVM bytecode + platform) together.
When I heard of this, the first thing that came to mind was the painter Francis Bacon and his "Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" otherwise known as the 'screaming pope'. Have fun with that. I suspect they may only want to exercise their supposed copyright claim and control over a very narrow area.
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Had I the mod points, you would certainly be getting one. Look at me still posting when there's lurking to do...
This seems like the downside to globally-distributed networks. Even the NYC meeting only has 8 people right now. Depending on where I choose to go, I will immediately double the attendance at either NJ event. If I start my own, I'll probably be the only attendee.
Where is everyone? On the Internet.
...way off base...
Well played.
Before anyone else asks what I was about to, the full title of the article is: $1,279-per-hour, 30,000-core cluster built on Amazon EC2 cloud
How does that compare to the cost-per-core-hour for other Amazon EC2 offerings? Is this a value meal deal or just a lot of burgers?
There is an IBM patent on nano-stamping (which I can't seem to locate due to all the other IBM and stamping patents) which describes a technique developed after noticing that very small errors were being reproduced from the CD plate repeatably in the final produced CDs. I was reading this article at least 8 years ago.
So it is going to be a really big private network...
They should call it...I-WAN.
Don't cross the streams! ... but seriously. What kind of name is that? No one is going to call it Nintendo Stream, they'll call it Wii 2 or Wii Stream. All the work of name recognition that was done for the Wii will have to be done again for this new system unless they come up with a 'backwards compatible' name. Rumors and speculation, the article says.
Being based on an AMD Fusion platform, however, maybe they want to move the programming model toward using 'stream processors' and have computation on the GPU as well. Then again, this is my own rumor and speculation. The stream-to-touchscreen controllers sound like the Dreamcast VMU brought into the future.
I am just now preparing to replace that motherboard because the SATA stuff is crapping out and not booting successfully about 3 out of 4 times. I have a socket 939 dual-core Toledo with the ULi M1695/M1567 chipset that allowed for the AGP (Radeon 9800 XT) and later PCIe video (nVidia 8800 GTX).
While I didn't take advantage of it, there was the future CPU expansion slot that provided the upgrade path you mentioned but I never found anyone selling the actual socket. Still, an interesting and forward-thinking design.
Great board, I wish there was a good replacement available but the prices have gone down and come back up, so I may as well get myself into a quad- or hex-core on a motherboard with USB3... Still, it served me very well for the last 4 years.
I purchased a G1 from eBay and was lucky enough to get an extended battery (but not the back cover) and I successfully used it for wifi-only development for about 1.5 years. It worked out pretty well, the keyboard held up during that time, and aside from the slower processor speed, I was able to do what I wanted to do without much issue. The GPS acquisition time was much slower than my then-gf's MyTouch 3G, but I suspect the better hardware as well as some hints from the cell signal were responsible for that.
The only problem I had was that my particular device (or the way I did it) wasn't quite compatible with the CyanogenMod Froyo firmware and was unstable, froze and/or crashed a lot. I'd give it another try but I can't make it boot and haven't been back to the recovery console since I bought my G2 (soon to be AT&T-Mobile, grumble).
I was wondering how best to take long exposure images and not have the dark areas be over-exposed a while ago and I just came across this light-painting plugin for the video editor KDEnlive: http://www.kdenlive.org/users/granjow/light-graffiti-2nd Their plugin demo video is pretty neat and I would assume could be applied to video that has already been filmed and properly modified to enhance the brighter areas.
It'll probably be covered by health insurance, even though birth control still typically won't be.
Is this the same budget that is proposing cutting to zero the funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting? These programs provide far more social good and support democracy (a viewpoint I am still not quite jaded about, yet). There are so many other places to cut and other sources of tax revenue that should be explored long before this is considered. There are projects that the Pentagon doesn't even want but are still funded. Maybe the cast of Sesame Street should show up in DC and TEACH THEM SOME MATH.
What, no one is making the obvious oil / Euler joke? Tough crowd.
Funny you should mention this... There was widespread talk about using 'white hat worms' to patch systems infected with Code Red and Nimda, both enabled by bugs in MS products. The idea was that it would remove and patch infected/compromised systems and inoculate systems that had not yet been targeted.
I'm pretty sure there have been ideas floated around to distribute vaccines through alternate means similar to what MS is trying to patent.
This is why the markets creep up on almost no volume and everyone wonders why stocks drop so quickly when someone sells a large enough block of stocks. These programs are the reason for the 'flash crash' and not the ridiculous 'typo by a trader' explanation. The argument of 'providing liquidity' doesn't really seem like it has that much value for a normal investor. It's robots all the way down!
It took this long to be Godwin'd? I'm impressed!
The funny thing about the great flexibility that the frameworks like Spring provide is that you are defining the functionality in the XML files instead of the code, but now you have to learn two languages. The nestable list structure of Lisp is almost the same as the hierarchical format of XML, and in fact, that is how they are often represented natively in Lisp XML parsers. Instead, you could just use one language, structure your data properly, and extend the language to fit your problem.
Macros in Lisp were introduced in the mid-1960s and are a powerful way to extend that language. However, the syntax of Lisp is very regular, so adapting the power of the prefix notation of Lisp into a language with a procedural syntax like Java is not going to be too easy.
I'm a little surprised that there isn't more mention of Lisp in this thread, considering that the lambda calculus that it was built on is the source of the name for one of the language projects.
Being able to transparently extend your language is a powerful tool that Lisp exploits to full advantage, provided the programmer knows when to use them. The regular syntax, functions as first-class objects (treated the same way as variables), and the macro system are the three features that build upon each other to make it such a flexible language.
See footnote #5 for some elucidation, although I certainly didn't learn Lisp on my first try: http://gigamonkeys.com/book/macros-standard-control-constructs.html
Holden: "Tell me about your mother".
Leon: "My mother? I'll tell you about my mother".
I had exactly this experience with Overstock.com only I was looking at how much a set of real silverware cost as I was considering making it a wedding present... Yeah, I'm not made of money. So now I get to see the same damn picture of the $3K set that I will *never* buy on sites that I had never even noticed an overstock banner on before. (If they weren't swimming in flatware already, I was going to consider silver plated for a much more reasonable price.)
It almost reminds me of that scene in Fahrenheit 451, yelling back at the ad for Denham's Dentifrice. At least they aren't congratulating me on winning something in a terrible synthesized voice.
What if your ex-girlfriend's name is JESS3?
Funny enough, the 'random' quote at the bottom of this page of comments is this:
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. -- Wm. Shakespeare, "Hamlet"
That is not to say that there is no wonder in the world, and that there are some things still unexplained, but to ignore an explanation when one exists is anti-science and tends toward willful, enthusiastic ignorance.
Why not just develop a design to swap out batteries through an automated crane? Pull in, the robot arm removes your empty battery and replaces it with a full one. The empty battery charges at whatever pace the 'gas' station deems necessary (maybe overnight when prices are lower) and the driver has a full charge within seconds. I'm almost certain I saw this idea put forth on /. in the past.
Definitely write some code. When you are done with that, though, give a look at Common Lisp: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~dst/LispBook/ Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation by David S. Touretzky, or http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/ Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. Then, learn to use Clojure to tie the two (functional programming and JVM bytecode + platform) together.
When I heard of this, the first thing that came to mind was the painter Francis Bacon and his "Study after Velazquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X" otherwise known as the 'screaming pope'. Have fun with that. I suspect they may only want to exercise their supposed copyright claim and control over a very narrow area.