So you argue that it can be done that way, because some comercial system does it that way: AND IT SUFFERS FROM THE PROBLEM THAT I SAID MEANS THAT YOU *SHOULD* DO IT ANOTHER WAY.
I'm sorry, but I don't think I have the mad explanation skills necessary to put this in a way that you can understand.
Who wins is depending on how you set your contest. And as this is no more than a publicity stunt, it's of course set up in a way that the pigeon is guaranteed to win.
200 MB on a memory card has the same "transfer time" as 16 GB. Yet suddenly the bandwidth is some 80 times as great.
No. It's 80 times less. There is no way to read what you've written that fits your argument.
Yes, it was setup to make the pigeon win. That is the purpose of a publicity stunt. But they didn't choose 200MB over 16GB to make it better for the pigeon...
Which "usual" mix of programs and data is that then?
Or are you taking your experience on zipping smaller things that they "usually" decrease in size by about 50%. Because I've already explained to you why that experience doesn't translate very well into spotting duplicate blocks at much larger sizes...
The test is not exactly hard: take a file that doesn't compress very well under zip (i.e almost any media file) and build a fake file hierarchy out of lots of copies of it. Then make a disk image and try and zip it. What you've described will fail, for the reasons that I've described to you. But de-duplication would definitely work on that disk image.
Yup, I totally agree with you. There is a *lot* of stupidity on display today.
Tell you what, why don't you image a 100GB disk into a single file, then run zip over it and come back and tell us how it worked out for you when you're done...
Here is a hint: the buffer is a constant-size because it has been tuned for a particular type of file where the granularity of repetition is very fine/small. Trying to do the same on much larger files where the granularity of repetition is much coarser requires a much bigger buffer. And it does not increase linearly...
No, block devices should be doing this. Then you get the benefits regardless of which filesystem you want to layer on top.
No, filesystems should be doing this otherwise you are introducing a new type of component into the system: a block device with a variable number of blocks depending on its contents. Good luck not breaking the semantics of file operations on any application running above it.
Oh that's strange. I've edited a block (ie done a write into the middle of a file) and it failed because the device is now full...
Do you think it might be the strange contradiction between pursuing a vocation based on the idea that everything should be questioned and there is no room for faith in our description of the universe..... while believing a laughably simplistic view of the universe on faith.
Even if it is not shocking it does imply that we shouldn't trust their work.
Err, yes. True. What I meant was "if" ISPs had common carrier status. Still, at least you have proved that the GP is even more of a brain-dead tool than I thought.
My god man, have you tried thinking before writing?
Common carrier status means that the ISP is not liable for the actions of its customers. That in any legal action the customers would be the ones on the receiving end of a lawsuit or criminal conviction. Rather than whittling away at common carrier status THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT COMMON CARRIER status is.
I also suspect that you don't know what whittling it, but I'll let it go as that is merely the tip of the iceberg that is your stupidity.
Ok, so one of your devices has 300mbit wireless, but what is the end-to-end throughput between them? If you just copy a file from the SMB share then what throughput do you get? I would check and see if it was anything like 37MB/s before assuming that it is impossible to do 1080p video over wifi. You haven't mentioned what interface the harddrive is connected to the windows 7 box with, how the windows 7 box is connected to your network, your router or anything else.
If your windows 7 box is also on the 802.11n network then are you aware that the access control is time-based multi-plexed: in simple terms you cut the bandwidth in half as the devices take turns in accessing the radio.
Lastly, what kind of 1080p content are you trying to stream? There is a world of different between 2GB compressed rips of blueray, through 5GB compressed rips to 50GB uncompressed versions.
Right. Backups. I guess that's really what "this" is.
I own a PS3 and I'll be looking into specifically for this feature. Fuck backups. And fuck piracy too. I don't mind paying for games, but after paying for a console with a harddisk in it, and waiting ten minutes for each game to "install" itself I seriously resent having to get my ass off of the couch to switch games.
Come on Sony. I've paid for the system, I've paid for the game. Stop being such fuckwits and let me use what I've already paid for.
You will want to take out the opening credits / recap / closing credits though as they get really annoying after the first few dozen times. It would also make sense to stitch the four parts of each episode into one video file.
Of course when you say only in the US you do in in fact mean only in the Western World as most of Europe has had this principle enshrined in law for the past thousand years. In fact we are where your ancestors got the basic idea from.
Still, the irony of an American trying to tell other American's that there is a world outside of America but getting the important details wrong is not lost on me.
What Kurzweil says is pretty reasonable, he used the total amount of information in the genome to get an upper limit estimate of the amount of library code needed to simulate a brain.
Yes. Well done. Did you try reading the article that you are criticising because it rips your point apart fairly easily. The thing about an upper limit is that it should be at least as large as the thing that you are estimating. The article shows quite conclusively that Kurzweil's "upper limit" is far too small because he knows nothing about brains and pulled some numbers out of his arse.
That "tangent" that Myers went off of was a reasonable argument for why the amount of information described is not sufficient to simulate a brain. Not least because it is a highly compressed description of a process that builds a brain. It is not a description of a brain itself. Furthermore to use that description to build an actual model of the brain you need to understand all of the biological processes that are relevant in executing that construction code, and the environment that they run in.
I think a machine with one million processing cores at 1 GHz would have approximately the same data handling capacity as a human brain. The rest is software.
Oh the irony, it's burning my eyes. You're defending somebody who was caught babbling about something they don't understand by repeating the trick. Well done you.
Wireless has its problems but the lack of service due to moving really gets my hackles up. It is completely artificial and usually only happens so that the ISP can charge you a fee.
Once we moved within the same city, back when we used PlusNet as an ISP. Amongst their many other failings was a two-week delay to move our broadband from one flat to another in the same city, where the outgoing tenant also had broadband from PlusNet! After much arguing about the line going dead for two weeks because they wouldn't flick the switch sooner I got lucky on one phonecall and crashed out of their voice menu and found somebody who put me through to their engineering department. After a funny chat with the guy in the switch room I got our connection switched over instantly.
Sadly billing noticed a couple of weeks later and had it switched off for the "required" period before reconnection. It was at that point that we told PlusNet where to put their connection and switched over to Demon...
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So you argue that it can be done that way, because some comercial system does it that way: AND IT SUFFERS FROM THE PROBLEM THAT I SAID MEANS THAT YOU *SHOULD* DO IT ANOTHER WAY.
I'm sorry, but I don't think I have the mad explanation skills necessary to put this in a way that you can understand.
An ounce of empiricism, eh?
So.... not an ounce of sense, or an ounce of insight, or even an ounce of understanding....
I would worried about anyone that has employed an empirical method to the question of how effective political violence can be.
No. It's 80 times less. There is no way to read what you've written that fits your argument.
Yes, it was setup to make the pigeon win. That is the purpose of a publicity stunt. But they didn't choose 200MB over 16GB to make it better for the pigeon...
Which "usual" mix of programs and data is that then?
Or are you taking your experience on zipping smaller things that they "usually" decrease in size by about 50%. Because I've already explained to you why that experience doesn't translate very well into spotting duplicate blocks at much larger sizes...
The test is not exactly hard: take a file that doesn't compress very well under zip (i.e almost any media file) and build a fake file hierarchy out of lots of copies of it. Then make a disk image and try and zip it. What you've described will fail, for the reasons that I've described to you. But de-duplication would definitely work on that disk image.
Yup, I totally agree with you. There is a *lot* of stupidity on display today.
Tell you what, why don't you image a 100GB disk into a single file, then run zip over it and come back and tell us how it worked out for you when you're done...
Here is a hint: the buffer is a constant-size because it has been tuned for a particular type of file where the granularity of repetition is very fine/small. Trying to do the same on much larger files where the granularity of repetition is much coarser requires a much bigger buffer. And it does not increase linearly...
Why settle for promotion?
I reckon that the Ministry for the Economy would be desperate to hire you with those mad skills.
Filesystems should be doing this.
No, block devices should be doing this. Then you get the benefits regardless of which filesystem you want to layer on top.
No, filesystems should be doing this otherwise you are introducing a new type of component into the system: a block device with a variable number of blocks depending on its contents. Good luck not breaking the semantics of file operations on any application running above it.
Oh that's strange. I've edited a block (ie done a write into the middle of a file) and it failed because the device is now full...
Who knows?
Do you think it might be the strange contradiction between pursuing a vocation based on the idea that everything should be questioned and there is no room for faith in our description of the universe..... while believing a laughably simplistic view of the universe on faith.
Even if it is not shocking it does imply that we shouldn't trust their work.
Damn, that's some good whittlin right there
Err, yes. True. What I meant was "if" ISPs had common carrier status. Still, at least you have proved that the GP is even more of a brain-dead tool than I thought.
My god man, have you tried thinking before writing?
Common carrier status means that the ISP is not liable for the actions of its customers. That in any legal action the customers would be the ones on the receiving end of a lawsuit or criminal conviction. Rather than whittling away at common carrier status THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT COMMON CARRIER status is.
I also suspect that you don't know what whittling it, but I'll let it go as that is merely the tip of the iceberg that is your stupidity.
Ok, so one of your devices has 300mbit wireless, but what is the end-to-end throughput between them? If you just copy a file from the SMB share then what throughput do you get? I would check and see if it was anything like 37MB/s before assuming that it is impossible to do 1080p video over wifi. You haven't mentioned what interface the harddrive is connected to the windows 7 box with, how the windows 7 box is connected to your network, your router or anything else.
If your windows 7 box is also on the 802.11n network then are you aware that the access control is time-based multi-plexed: in simple terms you cut the bandwidth in half as the devices take turns in accessing the radio.
Lastly, what kind of 1080p content are you trying to stream? There is a world of different between 2GB compressed rips of blueray, through 5GB compressed rips to 50GB uncompressed versions.
I own a PS3 and I'll be looking into specifically for this feature. Fuck backups. And fuck piracy too. I don't mind paying for games, but after paying for a console with a harddisk in it, and waiting ten minutes for each game to "install" itself I seriously resent having to get my ass off of the couch to switch games.
Come on Sony. I've paid for the system, I've paid for the game. Stop being such fuckwits and let me use what I've already paid for.
Pah! As if you could point to a single 24-hour period when the LHC has been up and running...
Not sure what your point is there. Any algorithm for rendering that spits out n pixels at the end has an O(n) lower-bound.
You will want to take out the opening credits / recap / closing credits though as they get really annoying after the first few dozen times. It would also make sense to stitch the four parts of each episode into one video file.
No worries :) we "non-usians" like to group all the usians together anyway. Makes 'em easier to count.
Of course when you say only in the US you do in in fact mean only in the Western World as most of Europe has had this principle enshrined in law for the past thousand years. In fact we are where your ancestors got the basic idea from.
Still, the irony of an American trying to tell other American's that there is a world outside of America but getting the important details wrong is not lost on me.
I worked on a five-year project once. We didn't even make half a brain. Thus Kurzweil is wrong.
(if he can pick arbitrary bounds based on his misunderstandings then I demand the same privilege).
Unless your mission is designed to test the deployment of the sail, and the effect of the sail on de-orbiting the satellite when the mission is done.
Did baby drop toys out of pram?
If I give you a design for a plane written in Danish, you damn well better understand Danish before I would set foot on what you build.
Going for code density it would have to be brainfuck....
Yes. Well done. Did you try reading the article that you are criticising because it rips your point apart fairly easily. The thing about an upper limit is that it should be at least as large as the thing that you are estimating. The article shows quite conclusively that Kurzweil's "upper limit" is far too small because he knows nothing about brains and pulled some numbers out of his arse.
That "tangent" that Myers went off of was a reasonable argument for why the amount of information described is not sufficient to simulate a brain. Not least because it is a highly compressed description of a process that builds a brain. It is not a description of a brain itself. Furthermore to use that description to build an actual model of the brain you need to understand all of the biological processes that are relevant in executing that construction code, and the environment that they run in.
Oh the irony, it's burning my eyes. You're defending somebody who was caught babbling about something they don't understand by repeating the trick. Well done you.
Wireless has its problems but the lack of service due to moving really gets my hackles up. It is completely artificial and usually only happens so that the ISP can charge you a fee.
Once we moved within the same city, back when we used PlusNet as an ISP. Amongst their many other failings was a two-week delay to move our broadband from one flat to another in the same city, where the outgoing tenant also had broadband from PlusNet! After much arguing about the line going dead for two weeks because they wouldn't flick the switch sooner I got lucky on one phonecall and crashed out of their voice menu and found somebody who put me through to their engineering department. After a funny chat with the guy in the switch room I got our connection switched over instantly.
Sadly billing noticed a couple of weeks later and had it switched off for the "required" period before reconnection. It was at that point that we told PlusNet where to put their connection and switched over to Demon...