I can totally see a hypoglycemic person frantically fumbling through his pockets to turn on enough electronic gadgets to burn up all the extra glucose before it's too late.
"My netbook is going into power saving mode? NOOOOOO!"
It's working.. look at the battery bar graph on the bottom - it flips between 2% and other values @ 0:55.
Wow. You're absolutely right. Color me very impressed.
It's very amusing that the screen on that is so sharp and clear in the daylight that it actually looks fake. I guess it goes to show how accustomed we are to crappy LCD displays.
"Expanding PC sales in emerging markets is increasing the rate of software piracy, according to the Business Software Alliance and IDC"
So, in other words, even though emerging markets are bringing millions of additional paying customers to them, they are making a fuss about the few among those who aren't paying.
Talk about seeing the glass as half-empty.
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So y'all are saying I should learn more than "i" for insert and arrow keys and backspace for everything else?
I've been using OpenSharedRoot over NFS at my workplace on three different clusters. It works pretty well. Ultimately, I would love to be able to install gigabit switches everywhere and give everyone disk-less workstations that PXE boot. Unlike a thin-client solution, the engineers would still be able to use their desktop's CPU resources and local RAM, plus the local HD could be used for swap and data files, but not the OS itself.
The inflationary days of selling computing hardware may just be over: now we seem to be getting into a saturated sector. What will manufacturers do to replace those sales?
Why, declare that the future is "in the cloud" and that we should be buying devices which are less powerful that our current ones, so we can pay subscription fees on our apps.
I can understand the lack off Flash on the iPad and all, but if I am going to access my data on a big computer somewhere, I want to make sure the iPad supports VT100.
Some article indicated that he had enabled "No Service Password-Recovery" on the Cisco equipment. This means that even with physical access, attempting to reset the password causes all non-volatile memory to be erased. It's essentially a restore to factory defaults.
Most graphics and geometry requires lots of sign tests (or some other comparisons), but those are expensive. So it doesn't really help.
I was thinking about this last night and came to the same conclusion. The lack of ability to do comparisons between numbers is a huge problem for graphics. And what appears to be the big advantage of residual arithmetic -- the ability to use tables for polynomials -- is actually limited to polynomials of one variable, which doesn't help much with computer graphics.
So I've changed my mind on this. It's certainly a clever mathematical curiosity, but it appears to have too many limitations to be useful in practical problems.
(although lack of practicality didn't keep from hacking out some C++ code based on this idea last night -- if anything, I think I might have a chance at the International Obfuscated C Code Contest this year)
A lot of people are dismissing this report, but the ideas of residual arithmetic may in fact be plausible for things like GPUs, which are good at doing parallel computations and where the magnitude of the results are finite and known (two things the report mentions as making a problem suitable for residual arithmetic).
One thing which caught my eye is when they demonstrate how to evaluate polynomials using table look ups. It might be conceivable that things like ray/surface intersections in a ray-tracer, for example, could be represented by tables in a GPU specially built for ray-tracing. Without working through the math (which would be quite a chore), it certainly seems like a fairly plausible idea.
As much as I like open source, I just downloaded Resynthesizer and it was very much hit and miss. I did as some people suggested and took screen shots of the YouTube video and tried to reproduce things in the GIMP. I was able to very successfully remove the tree from the sky of the first shot, but when I tried removing the trash and the poles, I got weird sky colored patches in the grass. The desert road got replaced with sky. And on the last photo, Resynthesizer did a very decent job on the clouds, but filled in part below the mountains with sky. I tried this with several of my own photos and consistently Resynthesizer seemed to show a bias towards filling everything with sky.
So, I am lead to conclude that while in principle Resynthesizer might be useful, in its current implementation it is very buggy and gives very unpredictable results. If Context-Aware Fill makes it into a release of Photoshop, I'm sure Adobe will have spent a lot of time and effort going the last mile and eliminating all the wonky corner cases.
It's *possible* that the video showcased an one in a million image for which this technology works particularly well, but I don't think Adobe would ever release a product which makes obvious mistakes most of the times. If they are seriously planning to release this, it's likely they've done considerable tuning to the algorithm and have gotten it to behave in most cases.
You meant there is no pairing between the TV and the 3D glasses? What happens if I am watching 3D porn while my prude neighbor is watching Glen Beck in 3D, and all of a sudden the signals on our 3D glasses get crossed?
That would be *entirely* unacceptable -- having Glen Beck invade my private moment, that is.
Forget about hoarding shotguns and canned food for the apocalypse, you really ought to be hoarding sextants and compasses as they will be very valuable in a world without GPS.
Oh how things have changed. The first issue from May 1872 has 128 pages of closely packed text and only a few scattered illustrations. I wonder if all magazines were like that in 1872 -- I get the impression that Playboy magazine wouldn't have been much fun back then.
What we need is a new class of specialized devices that acts as a firewall for power. Some new device that you put between the power outlet and you computer that automatically compensates for potentially malicious sags and surges in the voltage. To make things even safer, we can add some sort of specialized cache memory for power that stores enough packets of power to keep the computer going in case the malicious attacker cuts the power lines into the secure facility.
Hummm, can you turn this bug around and come up with an image that appears totally gray in normal size but looks like something recognizable when you scale it up or down? If so, that could be a basis of some cool steganographic hack.
"The malware got the Chuck Norris moniker from a programmer's Italian comment in its source code: 'in nome di Chuck Norris'"
Source code? How did they get the source code? Wouldn't a virus in the wild be compiled? Is this some strange virus that carries around its source code and compiles itself for every new host it infects?
If so, I believe a Gentoo programmer is behind this virus outbreak.
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I can totally see a hypoglycemic person frantically fumbling through his pockets to turn on enough electronic gadgets to burn up all the extra glucose before it's too late.
"My netbook is going into power saving mode? NOOOOOO!"
It's working.. look at the battery bar graph on the bottom - it flips between 2% and other values @ 0:55.
Wow. You're absolutely right. Color me very impressed.
It's very amusing that the screen on that is so sharp and clear in the daylight that it actually looks fake. I guess it goes to show how accustomed we are to crappy LCD displays.
Why does this phone appear to have a fake, non-functional screen? Looks like one of those cardboard computers you see in furniture stores.
"Expanding PC sales in emerging markets is increasing the rate of software piracy, according to the Business Software Alliance and IDC"
So, in other words, even though emerging markets are bringing millions of additional paying customers to them, they are making a fuss about the few among those who aren't paying.
Talk about seeing the glass as half-empty.
So y'all are saying I should learn more than "i" for insert and arrow keys and backspace for everything else?
I've been using OpenSharedRoot over NFS at my workplace on three different clusters. It works pretty well. Ultimately, I would love to be able to install gigabit switches everywhere and give everyone disk-less workstations that PXE boot. Unlike a thin-client solution, the engineers would still be able to use their desktop's CPU resources and local RAM, plus the local HD could be used for swap and data files, but not the OS itself.
The inflationary days of selling computing hardware may just be over: now we seem to be getting into a saturated sector. What will manufacturers do to replace those sales?
Why, declare that the future is "in the cloud" and that we should be buying devices which are less powerful that our current ones, so we can pay subscription fees on our apps.
I can understand the lack off Flash on the iPad and all, but if I am going to access my data on a big computer somewhere, I want to make sure the iPad supports VT100.
Some article indicated that he had enabled "No Service Password-Recovery" on the Cisco equipment. This means that even with physical access, attempting to reset the password causes all non-volatile memory to be erased. It's essentially a restore to factory defaults.
Most graphics and geometry requires lots of sign tests (or some other comparisons), but those are expensive. So it doesn't really help.
I was thinking about this last night and came to the same conclusion. The lack of ability to do comparisons between numbers is a huge problem for graphics. And what appears to be the big advantage of residual arithmetic -- the ability to use tables for polynomials -- is actually limited to polynomials of one variable, which doesn't help much with computer graphics.
So I've changed my mind on this. It's certainly a clever mathematical curiosity, but it appears to have too many limitations to be useful in practical problems.
(although lack of practicality didn't keep from hacking out some C++ code based on this idea last night -- if anything, I think I might have a chance at the International Obfuscated C Code Contest this year)
A lot of people are dismissing this report, but the ideas of residual arithmetic may in fact be plausible for things like GPUs, which are good at doing parallel computations and where the magnitude of the results are finite and known (two things the report mentions as making a problem suitable for residual arithmetic).
One thing which caught my eye is when they demonstrate how to evaluate polynomials using table look ups. It might be conceivable that things like ray/surface intersections in a ray-tracer, for example, could be represented by tables in a GPU specially built for ray-tracing. Without working through the math (which would be quite a chore), it certainly seems like a fairly plausible idea.
What happens when you spill hot coffee into your lap and look down at the mess you made? Does the car somehow drive itself into your crotch?
Oh, right. Hoods and bonnets. They already have those.
They should start making them out of lead, maybe?
Will this in any way affect how many kilograms my laptop will weight when its hard disk is full versus when it is empty?
As much as I like open source, I just downloaded Resynthesizer and it was very much hit and miss. I did as some people suggested and took screen shots of the YouTube video and tried to reproduce things in the GIMP. I was able to very successfully remove the tree from the sky of the first shot, but when I tried removing the trash and the poles, I got weird sky colored patches in the grass. The desert road got replaced with sky. And on the last photo, Resynthesizer did a very decent job on the clouds, but filled in part below the mountains with sky. I tried this with several of my own photos and consistently Resynthesizer seemed to show a bias towards filling everything with sky.
So, I am lead to conclude that while in principle Resynthesizer might be useful, in its current implementation it is very buggy and gives very unpredictable results. If Context-Aware Fill makes it into a release of Photoshop, I'm sure Adobe will have spent a lot of time and effort going the last mile and eliminating all the wonky corner cases.
It's *possible* that the video showcased an one in a million image for which this technology works particularly well, but I don't think Adobe would ever release a product which makes obvious mistakes most of the times. If they are seriously planning to release this, it's likely they've done considerable tuning to the algorithm and have gotten it to behave in most cases.
You meant there is no pairing between the TV and the 3D glasses? What happens if I am watching 3D porn while my prude neighbor is watching Glen Beck in 3D, and all of a sudden the signals on our 3D glasses get crossed?
That would be *entirely* unacceptable -- having Glen Beck invade my private moment, that is.
Forget about hoarding shotguns and canned food for the apocalypse, you really ought to be hoarding sextants and compasses as they will be very valuable in a world without GPS.
...if you're doing it to end up with new code that is "inefficient, difficult to work with, and riddled with bugs"?
Was the original code too efficient, well-commented and well-tested and they couldn't live with that?
So, if it uses fans rather than jets, it is not a jetpack, it is a...
*drum roll*
fanny pack
Sound true enough to me. Sometimes the people who don't shower are also hairy and disgusting.
Oh how things have changed. The first issue from May 1872 has 128 pages of closely packed text and only a few scattered illustrations. I wonder if all magazines were like that in 1872 -- I get the impression that Playboy magazine wouldn't have been much fun back then.
What we need is a new class of specialized devices that acts as a firewall for power. Some new device that you put between the power outlet and you computer that automatically compensates for potentially malicious sags and surges in the voltage. To make things even safer, we can add some sort of specialized cache memory for power that stores enough packets of power to keep the computer going in case the malicious attacker cuts the power lines into the secure facility.
Does anyone want to invent such a device?
...if it is legal to mount your license plate upside down -- and whether it would fool such systems.
Hummm, can you turn this bug around and come up with an image that appears totally gray in normal size but looks like something recognizable when you scale it up or down? If so, that could be a basis of some cool steganographic hack.
"The malware got the Chuck Norris moniker from a programmer's Italian comment in its source code: 'in nome di Chuck Norris'"
Source code? How did they get the source code? Wouldn't a virus in the wild be compiled? Is this some strange virus that carries around its source code and compiles itself for every new host it infects?
If so, I believe a Gentoo programmer is behind this virus outbreak.