one *tiny* question: why the hell does your physic's unit require any relation at all to the AI system? Just because you'd have to wait on the AI system doesn't mean that the physics system can be running environmental type data until it's ready to process character and object interaction. I think it wouldn't be too bad if you could schedule everything properly, which would be just as much of a task. You're right that not all aspects of the game need to be paralleled, but those that can be, should. Even if that means having to go back to platform style coding where all the graphics are coded and rendered in layers, and then overlayed on the final output. (like, rendering characters out of environment, etc. may not be the best of examples, but use your imagination.)
I had nobody to support, and worked two jobs in high school (assistant network admin for the school, desk junkie for a computer repair shop), and didn't make that much in the two years I worked...
I've been having incredible trouble sleeping for about a year, and now I remember that is was just about a year ago that I bought a new 20" CRT so that I could run at a higher resolution for, believe it or not, programming. I ran into the whole 30-40 hour day problem last semester and my GPA's still bugging me about it... I'll try using my laptop more.
So.. I really don't understand quantum computing. Why doesn't someone build a emulator that would allow a large grid of existing computers to run a "quantum computer"? Wouldn't it be just as easyto delegate a processor to six or seven bits at a time?
I just don't think this is such a good idea. It would be great for cell phones (dial such and such), but for MP3 Players, I don't think that the technology is there, nor do I believe that anyone would want to use it. Imagine trying to play a song called "Sk8r Boi" or something similiar...
On top of that, why not just use steering wheel mounted paddle controllers? They keep your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road, and are very easy to access..
Personally, I believe that this is just the first news of it being pulled from stores, and that it's actually taken place for quite a while. I've been looking since I played WoW at my friends house over Christmas, and have failed to locate a single copy in the cities of Berea, Richmond, Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky since. Either the game's been so successful that everywhere in Kentucky has simultaniously sold out, or Blizzard voluntarily held back shipments after Christmas to allow for balancing of the servers before admiting the next wave of players.
but.. is it just me or does it sound like all of those strange "element-like" things in Star Trek? Especially from the varying descriptions that you guys have replied with, they match very well to some of the very complicated images that are often flashed on the screens of the Star ships on Star Trek (I can't find the images, or I would provide a link, but in episodes like "Night Terrors", Data is at a computer, asking Troi which element that the aliens were describing, as to start an explosion to get away from where they were).
Now, if you got anything from that, help me find a picture, and I'm sure you'll understand what I mean.. Maybe we're not far from those "hybrid-elements" that they use on an every day basis;)
Question: Who said the box contained an active implementation of PageRank? I'm sure Google's capable of building several different searching algorithms and then having the OS of the machine or a daemon simply select the most effective search algorithm for the task, cache results, and optimise querys on the fly.. I'm sure PageRank is *one* of the abilities of this server, but it surely isn't the *only* or the *best*.
I think slashdot's a bit too large at this point to consider such a small device, sadly. Not to be said that Slashdot doesn't need a better searching utility, but that at well over 600,000 users, 5-15% posting at around 200 comments per article per day, you could see just how quickly this index would grow.
It would be very nice of Google to donate the software needed for such a server to/., and let Slashdot build the hardware, but that would never happen. Or they could just donate the whole box, and simply advertise the hell out of us when we click "search, powered by Google (tm)"; but let's be realistic..
a few points:
a) Said webmaster dude would have to have a damned good reason to have 50,000 documents. Maybe a mid-ranged webmaster, or a wiki-site of some kind, or maybe forum (hey, like slashdot!).
b) Wouldn't it just be possible to buy another 5k$ machine once the first one's index is up, then simply join the search results? Or at least, that's what seems logical to me...
c) I would believe that anyone putting a pointer-page on a search-indexing server would be out of their mind. Simply drop all of the content on to that server, and build the rest of the pages dynamically, or statically served from somewhere else.
closing point: This is definitely a good move by Google. It's still very pricy, but I'm quite sure that any business big enough to consider having a independent database server which needs to be able to provide indexable content (such examples listed above.. also think medical records, purchase logs possibly), would love to have something as affordable. 5k$ beats the shit out of 32k$ when you've only got 50k$ total to spend.
I do believe Apple has a case this time, although I doubt it'll go to court and I'm sure Apple would settle with ThinkSecret for the names of the parties involved; I believe Apple could argue that without ThinkSecret, these persons would have never broken contract, and (IANAL) that sounds very much like an Induction charge (which is the Civil complement of the Criminal "Accomplice" to *crimename*).
If I were in ThinkSecret's place, I'd sit down with Apple's lawyer, tell them the name of the source who provided the information, pay a tiny little fee to the lawyers involved, and have a nice day.
But seriously, Apple has done nothing to "lock-out" adobe premere. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they HELPED Adobe develop a system so they would be cross compatible; Adobe just doesn't care because the two programs are aimed at different markets (well, same market, different segments; Premier is high end, Final Cut is middle to upper).
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ah, shafted again for karma whoring..;)
but seriously, I see the internet at a compedium of human knowledge, even if that knowledge is 60% porn. I wrote that earlier while reading through Wikipedia, which, to me, seems to have just about every piece of knowledge I'd ever imagine wanting to know about humanity.. Sure there's a lot more that can go into it, but it's already very impressive, and if a tool like Google lets me search through Wikipedia, then it's definitely giving me access to a boatload of knowledge. Forgive my attempts at dressing up my language;).
1) This is slashdot, and one of the companies slashdot loves is Google. Same with Apple, and to an extent, Microsoft (mostly out of hatred). You should come here with the expectation of this.
2) Slashdot does not have a "backpage", so front page is the only place for it.
3) By including disclaimers like "sorry if this is offtopic or considered flamebait", you know that what you are saying is going to be negatively modded, and are trying to save it's face. If you have a negative opinion about the above companies (or the inverse; a positive position on Microsoft), expect to be modded accordingly.
This has been a slashdot public service announcement.
...Everyone seems to not notice (intentionally?) that the order of the terms that come up is the order of Popularity; ie a term gets searched for more/quoted more, it's nearer to the top of the list. (Or at least, this is how I have noticed it; an alternative is that it goes by the highest PageRank).
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This is why Google is such an awesome concept.
Instant access to any piece of human knowledge, and it now can guess what you are looking for right as you can type. The only next improvement I can think of is if it did related searches to the term you searched for, but I'm not sure how you would represent all of that data at once. Leave it to the Google geniuses;)
Accoona Ma-tatta, What a wonderful phrase!!
Accoona Ma-tatta, Ain't no passin craze!!
It means censorship, for the rest of your days!!!
It's their problem ----- Philosophy!!
Accoona Ma-tatta.
By the way, the space shuttle uses 8086 chips, and it would be far, far too expensive to retrofit the old fabs with new lithography equipment needed to get the chips down to this size. Not only that, it would probably require a bit of re-engineering, since the chip wouldn't scale perfectly down (trasistors may have decreased in size, but wires have virtually disappeared) and that's worth more than the chip is worth.
It would however be a neat (expensive) little project to make a disk or two of miniscule pentium 2's and use them in a parrallel computing apparatus (something like voice recognition) just to demonstrate how many of those little buggers you could fit in a tight space, but that's about it.
well, one of the good things about having both rendering engines available is, that if they put a little more work into the code, they can use it to detect which sites are Internet Explorer only, notify the user, and ask them if they want to enable the engine. This same way, they can check the code for security problems on the fly, before actually sending it off to IE's renderer. Basically, using Firefox as a junk filter for IE. Now, I'm not saying that this is an ideal situation, or that there should be any reason for this to happen, but it's definitely a good patch in a leaky faucet until we can "clean up the web" so that sites will work equally in Firefox (ie Standards Compliant) and Internet Explorer. Then again, it could also be an act of complacency: "Eh, Firefox can view the page through Internet Explorer's rendering engine.. That's good enough for me" would be the statement I would fear most.
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I hate to tell ya, but the best thing you can do is take one for the team and fill in all of the metadata you can. Then make sure you can distribute not only the metadata but the files themselves so that the great music from those eras isn't lost due to data rot.
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Lol,
Their media is free and the code to enable your program to use their database is also GPL.
Secondly, I've oneupped your idea. I've wrote most of the code (it removes all ID3 tags and saves them in a temp.id3 file, hashes the file, takes the hash and adds it to the.id3 file after the tag, then stores both the song, and the hash into a database. In theory the code can be modified to just upload the.id3 file to the database and add it back to the file, but I rather like having all of my music in one MySQL database where it can be nicely organized, and where I can do better album/genre associations (for example, those tricky to organize files, and songs that appear on like every soundtrack ever made [Dragula, Rob Zombie for the best example I can think of]). I might open source it yet, but it's still pretty buggy and it's just a personal project, so I dunno.
not exactly.. It's more about the placement of fans within the case, and the dead air pockets. Placing the CPU nearer to the bottom of the PC will expose it to front cooling air, and instead of having the "bent s" shape airflow, has a more linear air flow, which should increase the thermal capacity of the air (it should be warmed up less by the time it gets to the CPU). Along with that, the dead air pocket is now at the absolute top of the case, which, coupled with a good top vent, allows for a more open, even flow.
I've actually modified my cases before so that I could mount a board on the other side of the case (not too hard to do) which flips the CPU nearer to the bottom and exposes it to the front lower CPU coolers.
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one *tiny* question: why the hell does your physic's unit require any relation at all to the AI system? Just because you'd have to wait on the AI system doesn't mean that the physics system can be running environmental type data until it's ready to process character and object interaction. I think it wouldn't be too bad if you could schedule everything properly, which would be just as much of a task. You're right that not all aspects of the game need to be paralleled, but those that can be, should. Even if that means having to go back to platform style coding where all the graphics are coded and rendered in layers, and then overlayed on the final output. (like, rendering characters out of environment, etc. may not be the best of examples, but use your imagination.)
I had nobody to support, and worked two jobs in high school (assistant network admin for the school, desk junkie for a computer repair shop), and didn't make that much in the two years I worked...
You mis-spelled "CowboyNeal"
...THANKS.
I've been having incredible trouble sleeping for about a year, and now I remember that is was just about a year ago that I bought a new 20" CRT so that I could run at a higher resolution for, believe it or not, programming. I ran into the whole 30-40 hour day problem last semester and my GPA's still bugging me about it... I'll try using my laptop more.
Thanks again
So.. I really don't understand quantum computing. Why doesn't someone build a emulator that would allow a large grid of existing computers to run a "quantum computer"? Wouldn't it be just as easyto delegate a processor to six or seven bits at a time?
*puzzled*.
I just don't think this is such a good idea. It would be great for cell phones (dial such and such), but for MP3 Players, I don't think that the technology is there, nor do I believe that anyone would want to use it. Imagine trying to play a song called "Sk8r Boi" or something similiar...
On top of that, why not just use steering wheel mounted paddle controllers? They keep your hands on the wheel and eyes on the road, and are very easy to access..
Personally, I believe that this is just the first news of it being pulled from stores, and that it's actually taken place for quite a while. I've been looking since I played WoW at my friends house over Christmas, and have failed to locate a single copy in the cities of Berea, Richmond, Lexington and Louisville, Kentucky since. Either the game's been so successful that everywhere in Kentucky has simultaniously sold out, or Blizzard voluntarily held back shipments after Christmas to allow for balancing of the servers before admiting the next wave of players.
but.. is it just me or does it sound like all of those strange "element-like" things in Star Trek? Especially from the varying descriptions that you guys have replied with, they match very well to some of the very complicated images that are often flashed on the screens of the Star ships on Star Trek (I can't find the images, or I would provide a link, but in episodes like "Night Terrors", Data is at a computer, asking Troi which element that the aliens were describing, as to start an explosion to get away from where they were).
;)
Now, if you got anything from that, help me find a picture, and I'm sure you'll understand what I mean.. Maybe we're not far from those "hybrid-elements" that they use on an every day basis
Bit of a long way for gold... platinum would make a much better haul (or diamonds, but we'd see how fast the diamond companies would jump into space).
Question: Who said the box contained an active implementation of PageRank? I'm sure Google's capable of building several different searching algorithms and then having the OS of the machine or a daemon simply select the most effective search algorithm for the task, cache results, and optimise querys on the fly.. I'm sure PageRank is *one* of the abilities of this server, but it surely isn't the *only* or the *best*.
I think slashdot's a bit too large at this point to consider such a small device, sadly. Not to be said that Slashdot doesn't need a better searching utility, but that at well over 600,000 users, 5-15% posting at around 200 comments per article per day, you could see just how quickly this index would grow.
/., and let Slashdot build the hardware, but that would never happen. Or they could just donate the whole box, and simply advertise the hell out of us when we click "search, powered by Google (tm)"; but let's be realistic..
It would be very nice of Google to donate the software needed for such a server to
a few points:
a) Said webmaster dude would have to have a damned good reason to have 50,000 documents. Maybe a mid-ranged webmaster, or a wiki-site of some kind, or maybe forum (hey, like slashdot!).
b) Wouldn't it just be possible to buy another 5k$ machine once the first one's index is up, then simply join the search results? Or at least, that's what seems logical to me...
c) I would believe that anyone putting a pointer-page on a search-indexing server would be out of their mind. Simply drop all of the content on to that server, and build the rest of the pages dynamically, or statically served from somewhere else.
closing point: This is definitely a good move by Google. It's still very pricy, but I'm quite sure that any business big enough to consider having a independent database server which needs to be able to provide indexable content (such examples listed above.. also think medical records, purchase logs possibly), would love to have something as affordable. 5k$ beats the shit out of 32k$ when you've only got 50k$ total to spend.
not to defend overlegits but...
I do believe Apple has a case this time, although I doubt it'll go to court and I'm sure Apple would settle with ThinkSecret for the names of the parties involved; I believe Apple could argue that without ThinkSecret, these persons would have never broken contract, and (IANAL) that sounds very much like an Induction charge (which is the Civil complement of the Criminal "Accomplice" to *crimename*).
If I were in ThinkSecret's place, I'd sit down with Apple's lawyer, tell them the name of the source who provided the information, pay a tiny little fee to the lawyers involved, and have a nice day.
Objection, Relevance?
But seriously, Apple has done nothing to "lock-out" adobe premere. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they HELPED Adobe develop a system so they would be cross compatible; Adobe just doesn't care because the two programs are aimed at different markets (well, same market, different segments; Premier is high end, Final Cut is middle to upper).
ah, shafted again for karma whoring.. ;)
;).
but seriously, I see the internet at a compedium of human knowledge, even if that knowledge is 60% porn. I wrote that earlier while reading through Wikipedia, which, to me, seems to have just about every piece of knowledge I'd ever imagine wanting to know about humanity.. Sure there's a lot more that can go into it, but it's already very impressive, and if a tool like Google lets me search through Wikipedia, then it's definitely giving me access to a boatload of knowledge. Forgive my attempts at dressing up my language
1) This is slashdot, and one of the companies slashdot loves is Google. Same with Apple, and to an extent, Microsoft (mostly out of hatred). You should come here with the expectation of this.
2) Slashdot does not have a "backpage", so front page is the only place for it.
3) By including disclaimers like "sorry if this is offtopic or considered flamebait", you know that what you are saying is going to be negatively modded, and are trying to save it's face. If you have a negative opinion about the above companies (or the inverse; a positive position on Microsoft), expect to be modded accordingly.
This has been a slashdot public service announcement.
...Everyone seems to not notice (intentionally?) that the order of the terms that come up is the order of Popularity; ie a term gets searched for more/quoted more, it's nearer to the top of the list. (Or at least, this is how I have noticed it; an alternative is that it goes by the highest PageRank).
This is why Google is such an awesome concept.
;)
Instant access to any piece of human knowledge, and it now can guess what you are looking for right as you can type. The only next improvement I can think of is if it did related searches to the term you searched for, but I'm not sure how you would represent all of that data at once. Leave it to the Google geniuses
Accoona Ma-tatta, What a wonderful phrase!! Accoona Ma-tatta, Ain't no passin craze!! It means censorship, for the rest of your days!!! It's their problem ----- Philosophy!! Accoona Ma-tatta.
(Well, it worked all the way to the end....)
By the way, the space shuttle uses 8086 chips, and it would be far, far too expensive to retrofit the old fabs with new lithography equipment needed to get the chips down to this size. Not only that, it would probably require a bit of re-engineering, since the chip wouldn't scale perfectly down (trasistors may have decreased in size, but wires have virtually disappeared) and that's worth more than the chip is worth.
It would however be a neat (expensive) little project to make a disk or two of miniscule pentium 2's and use them in a parrallel computing apparatus (something like voice recognition) just to demonstrate how many of those little buggers you could fit in a tight space, but that's about it.
well, one of the good things about having both rendering engines available is, that if they put a little more work into the code, they can use it to detect which sites are Internet Explorer only, notify the user, and ask them if they want to enable the engine. This same way, they can check the code for security problems on the fly, before actually sending it off to IE's renderer. Basically, using Firefox as a junk filter for IE. Now, I'm not saying that this is an ideal situation, or that there should be any reason for this to happen, but it's definitely a good patch in a leaky faucet until we can "clean up the web" so that sites will work equally in Firefox (ie Standards Compliant) and Internet Explorer. Then again, it could also be an act of complacency: "Eh, Firefox can view the page through Internet Explorer's rendering engine.. That's good enough for me" would be the statement I would fear most.
...Bet he does now!
I hate to tell ya, but the best thing you can do is take one for the team and fill in all of the metadata you can. Then make sure you can distribute not only the metadata but the files themselves so that the great music from those eras isn't lost due to data rot.
Lol, Their media is free and the code to enable your program to use their database is also GPL. Secondly, I've oneupped your idea. I've wrote most of the code (it removes all ID3 tags and saves them in a temp .id3 file, hashes the file, takes the hash and adds it to the .id3 file after the tag, then stores both the song, and the hash into a database. In theory the code can be modified to just upload the .id3 file to the database and add it back to the file, but I rather like having all of my music in one MySQL database where it can be nicely organized, and where I can do better album/genre associations (for example, those tricky to organize files, and songs that appear on like every soundtrack ever made [Dragula, Rob Zombie for the best example I can think of]). I might open source it yet, but it's still pretty buggy and it's just a personal project, so I dunno.
not exactly.. It's more about the placement of fans within the case, and the dead air pockets. Placing the CPU nearer to the bottom of the PC will expose it to front cooling air, and instead of having the "bent s" shape airflow, has a more linear air flow, which should increase the thermal capacity of the air (it should be warmed up less by the time it gets to the CPU). Along with that, the dead air pocket is now at the absolute top of the case, which, coupled with a good top vent, allows for a more open, even flow. I've actually modified my cases before so that I could mount a board on the other side of the case (not too hard to do) which flips the CPU nearer to the bottom and exposes it to the front lower CPU coolers.