all we need is for games to be available for Linux. I would very much like to play Far Cry on Linux. That is about the only thing, oh and Diablo 2, that I use Windows for. I wish they would support multiple channel audio output on more Linux media players. I brought a Klipsch 5.1 and I get the feeling that I'm only using a 2.1. Anyway, I hope that PowerDVD has multiple channel support. I wonder if UT2004 can be made to do multiple channel audio with an Audigy. I would pay big money, $200, to be able to use the extra 3 channels.
What would really spike my interest is if GPU makers would add 64 bit floating point intensities to their GPUs. By that I mean that color components would be 64 bits instead of the current maximum of 32 bits. This would allow for us to produce very fast computational libraries based around the GPU with the full precision we have come to expect from existing libraries. The current 32 bits, which is actually 24 bits if you really consider that only the mantissa counts toward precision, is not enough for certain applications. We need 52 bit mantissas especially for polished results. By the way, it is not that hard to implement 64 bit calculations into the GPU. So in essense, general numerical analysis, and especially linear algebra, will greatly benefit from the implementation of a relatively uninteresting detail to most. Having 64 bit color intensities will not give any great enhancement in visual quality as we would use our GPUs for in the usual case. Although the immediate visual benefit is negligible, processing of visual data requires a lot more precision than the presentation precision. For example, brightening a scene will require low order bits to come forth. If the precision is limited, aliasing will occur. So there is an immediate benefit to higher precision 64 bit GPUs. The benefits of high precision intensities all revolve around processing, something that GPUs are becoming more and more adept at starting with the introduction of shader technology. In closing, 64 bit intensities only increase manufacturing costs by a small amount while providing great benefits to processing applications. I would believe that we will definitely have 64 bit super-parallel processors (such as a GPU) in the future (hopefully the near future). Having 64 bits is sufficient for most numerical analysis applications used in physical problems. However, 32 bits is not always sufficient. Therefore, the scientific field will most likely demand the introduction of super-parallel 64 bit processors when it becomes well know the benefits of super-parallel processing as opposed to the more traditional processing with our CPUs. I hope to see GPUs with 64 bit intensities as it is the logical step into the future of super-parallel processing.
If you have done nothing wrong, why not keep a record of what you have done? You only destroy evidence when you are guilty, right?
I think that this line of argument for forced recording of material is just like the old argument about hiding stuff: it is an attempt to impose more restrictions on innocent people.
I subscribe to The Scientific American, which I read monthly. Besides that, I tend to look for interesting articles on Science and Nature everytime I go to the library. I also browse through the more in-depth journals at the library looking for interesting papers. I also look on arXiv and other online paper repositories.
I would like to see ISPs completely blocking out political regions from looking at material they provide access to. If ISPs are liable then they have a reason to block addresses that originate from a certain geographical region that have laws that make the ISP liable for material that the ISP gives access to. I would like to see Internet blackouts in these political regions so that they are denied from accessing large portions of the internet. This should send a clear message that laws will have far greater consequences than their stated aims. These laws are ridiculous just like blacking out a blackout from multiple ISPs. If push comes to shove, ISPs should block out these regions from accessing their networks not only to avoid liability but also to make a statement that the Internet is not a right. Of course, governments might force these ISPs to give access to their networks. If that happens, then ISPs loose both ways as they will be liable if they give access and they will be forced by the point of a gun to provide access to questionable material, and then become liable. If this happens, I hope that a vacuum forms in these oppressive countries, or whatever, where absolutely no ISP will dare to set up in them. The only way that governments can prevent that is to provide ISP services or use military force to force these ISPs to provide access. If the governments form ISPs themselves, then the blackout will become more fine grained as hosts will block out content themselves. This is the worst case scenario as I can't think of anything that can be done to hamper these laws against content and have an impact. So what should we do if government from ISPs as a result of all this? We must not allow content prohibition laws from existing.
I don't want to sound like FUD but US aerospace regulations apply to other countries as well. The United States have jurisdiction in matters regarding anything that reaches a certain altitude. You can't do this ANYWHERE. You would have to get permission from the United States to be able to launch a rocket into space. Therefore, the United States is the gatekeeper to space. For example, what would pervent a terrorist in Mexico, which has very lax de facto terrorism screens, from launching a chemical weapon into the United States? This line of thinking is responsible for these regulations. Do not be suprised when regulations like these expand to communications. Transportation has already been taken care of in the form of aerospace regulations and the FAA. Communications will be next because of cyberterrorism. Just be aware of imperialism.
Just look at the way they do 1U rackmount servers. They are I think 1.75 inches deep, which is about 10%-50% thicker than a laptop. Or perhaps use a laptop motherboard.
3ware Escalade series products provide incredible amounts of storage for your needs. A single card can support up to 12 serial ATA hard drives. One can put 24 400GB hard drives into a 5U case and expect 8.8 TB at one's disposal. Since the question is regarding personal fileservers, I would expect an expectation of lowered cost. Having a single machine embody the entireity of one's needs is more cost effective than having multiple machines doing the job. That 8.8 TB assumes RAID 5 setup, which means that one of the drives, out of 12 on a card, will act as a parity check. This setup will provide great storage capacity in a highly reliable package. The cost of such a system is less than that of other servers with the same storage capacity.
There are serious investigations into making cache optimized algorithms. For example, the matrix transposition and array index bit reversal algorithms have been investigated in two papers. Also, Bailey's 4-step and 6-step FFT algorithms are also cache efficient. The latter example shows that a complex algorithm such as a FFT can be made cache efficient with the sacrafice of only a few extra computations. Perhaps it would be prudent to use a hybrid ray-tracer/polynomial renderer to section each portion of the screen into regions that will only access a particular portion of memory. In fact, texture mapping is a lot like that. But I propose that we section the geometry into sections that are localized in memory. This will require more computation in the form of checking which ray goes where but it might be possible to create a viable ray tracer/polygon renderer that produces images of ray tracing caliber. By polygon renderer I mean the renderers that we currently use in gaming.
I perfer Cocoa Programming by Scott Anguish. It is a great Cocoa book as it describes many aspects of Cocoa, not just making a GUI like most books I've seen. It describes the philosophy, principles, design, and even implementation of Cocoa. It is more in-depth than any Cocoa book I've seen. It is the only Cocoa book I know of that contains more than 1000 pages. And as for value, it is an invaluable reference to any Cocoa programmer and the cost is not much either as you can find it in some outlet book stores for about twenty dollars. I would certainly recommend Cocoa Programming to anyone interested in developing for the Macintosh OS Ten.
Apple is very kind. When I brought in my iBook for repair because of that nasty Logic Board problem, Apple serviced and delivered my computer free of charge for me. On top of that, they sent me a copy of Panther when the repairs were over. Apple must be selling their operating systems not based solely on a profit basis. I would assume that the reason Apple is charging the $130 for each "upgrade" of their operating systems (they are not upgrades but full versions only) is because they assume that the only people buying them are not upgrading, but buying from scratch. It would be interesting for Apple to set up a "n-year upgrade program" where you get every release of your particular OS for those n years. They are already doing that for their server operating systems.
The "In Soviet Russia..." jokes began surfacing on the internet because of the Family Guy episode where Peter plays around with his car's navigation system, and turns it to Russian. The navigation system says: "In Soviet Russia, car drives You!".
(variant: Another InSovietRussia joke in that episode: Navigation system: "Turn right at fork in road. In Soviet Russia, road forks you!").
This is one of the closest, and on topic, post to the original, modern, joke in recorded Slashdot history. Here is more info. Have fun.
OT: I misread it as "Science: A Black Box for People", where I thought that the article was about science being so complex that the average Joe/Jane can't grok how most of our advancements have been achieved. People, in general, regard most technology as black boxes because they have absolutely know clue as to how stuff works. Science might be a black box also because most discoveries are so esoteric that people have no idea what they are, much less how it will benifit their lives. This could be dangerous because rhetoric about science being harmful to society and humanity is easier to understand to the average person and that can lead to a resentment of science to the point where people will demand an outright ban on scientific advancement, which will lead to another dark age.
I would look at Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming Volume 3 Chapter 6 to find information about string searching. I bet that Hyper-Card uses a combination of algorithms in that chapter.
This is the second flight in the X-43A project. On June 2, 2001, the first X-43A vehicle was lost moments after release from the B-52. Following booster ignition, the vehicle deviated from its flight path and was deliberately destroyed. The mishap investigation concluded there was no single contributing factor, but the root cause of the problem was identified as the control system of the booster --NASA
The first X-43A flight ended in failure June 2, 2001, after the modified Pegasus rocket that carried the plane veered off course and was detonated. --WFTV
That's nothing, the adc and sbb (add and subtract with carry) instructions take 8 cycles! That is 8 times what it was like on the Pentium 3. At least the add, sub, xor, not, and, or, neg instructions take only 0.5 cycles.
But still the increase in skull size can result in increased probability of death for both the infant and the mother during the birthing process. This is one of the main reasons why humans do not have astronomically large craniums. Unless there is a way nature/humans can allow for the growth of larger craniums, we will remain as smart as we are now.
But he has links to some free math books at his home page including a link to a calculus book in progress. He also had the CRC Encyclopedia of Mathematics there back when Mathworld was offline.
The REAL solution is a loser pays system. That way, doctors will not be sued unless it is a case that will definately will in court.
For those who say that some people with real legitimate claims will step away from suing are ignoring a very key point: a loser pays system will only result in legitimate claims being brought to court. Those who have doubts that they will lose can instead buy insurance. That's right, insurance. People with legitimate, but precarious, claims can be insured in case they lose. The insurance company will pay all the defendent's legal fees in case the defendent wins. If the plaintiff wins then the insurance company and the lawyer will both get a sizeable amount of the reward. The amount lawyers recieve will decrease since there will be less of an incentive for lawyers to offer their services.
In the loser pays system, only the right side wins. Those who disagree can look at the European countries where this system has been adopted and see for themselves the result of such a system.
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all we need is for games to be available for Linux. I would very much like to play Far Cry on Linux. That is about the only thing, oh and Diablo 2, that I use Windows for. I wish they would support multiple channel audio output on more Linux media players. I brought a Klipsch 5.1 and I get the feeling that I'm only using a 2.1. Anyway, I hope that PowerDVD has multiple channel support. I wonder if UT2004 can be made to do multiple channel audio with an Audigy. I would pay big money, $200, to be able to use the extra 3 channels.
What would really spike my interest is if GPU makers would add 64 bit floating point intensities to their GPUs. By that I mean that color components would be 64 bits instead of the current maximum of 32 bits. This would allow for us to produce very fast computational libraries based around the GPU with the full precision we have come to expect from existing libraries. The current 32 bits, which is actually 24 bits if you really consider that only the mantissa counts toward precision, is not enough for certain applications. We need 52 bit mantissas especially for polished results. By the way, it is not that hard to implement 64 bit calculations into the GPU. So in essense, general numerical analysis, and especially linear algebra, will greatly benefit from the implementation of a relatively uninteresting detail to most. Having 64 bit color intensities will not give any great enhancement in visual quality as we would use our GPUs for in the usual case. Although the immediate visual benefit is negligible, processing of visual data requires a lot more precision than the presentation precision. For example, brightening a scene will require low order bits to come forth. If the precision is limited, aliasing will occur. So there is an immediate benefit to higher precision 64 bit GPUs. The benefits of high precision intensities all revolve around processing, something that GPUs are becoming more and more adept at starting with the introduction of shader technology. In closing, 64 bit intensities only increase manufacturing costs by a small amount while providing great benefits to processing applications. I would believe that we will definitely have 64 bit super-parallel processors (such as a GPU) in the future (hopefully the near future). Having 64 bits is sufficient for most numerical analysis applications used in physical problems. However, 32 bits is not always sufficient. Therefore, the scientific field will most likely demand the introduction of super-parallel 64 bit processors when it becomes well know the benefits of super-parallel processing as opposed to the more traditional processing with our CPUs. I hope to see GPUs with 64 bit intensities as it is the logical step into the future of super-parallel processing.
If you have done nothing wrong, why not keep a record of what you have done? You only destroy evidence when you are guilty, right?
I think that this line of argument for forced recording of material is just like the old argument about hiding stuff: it is an attempt to impose more restrictions on innocent people.
I subscribe to The Scientific American, which I read monthly. Besides that, I tend to look for interesting articles on Science and Nature everytime I go to the library. I also browse through the more in-depth journals at the library looking for interesting papers. I also look on arXiv and other online paper repositories.
I would like to see ISPs completely blocking out political regions from looking at material they provide access to. If ISPs are liable then they have a reason to block addresses that originate from a certain geographical region that have laws that make the ISP liable for material that the ISP gives access to. I would like to see Internet blackouts in these political regions so that they are denied from accessing large portions of the internet. This should send a clear message that laws will have far greater consequences than their stated aims. These laws are ridiculous just like blacking out a blackout from multiple ISPs. If push comes to shove, ISPs should block out these regions from accessing their networks not only to avoid liability but also to make a statement that the Internet is not a right.
Of course, governments might force these ISPs to give access to their networks. If that happens, then ISPs loose both ways as they will be liable if they give access and they will be forced by the point of a gun to provide access to questionable material, and then become liable. If this happens, I hope that a vacuum forms in these oppressive countries, or whatever, where absolutely no ISP will dare to set up in them. The only way that governments can prevent that is to provide ISP services or use military force to force these ISPs to provide access.
If the governments form ISPs themselves, then the blackout will become more fine grained as hosts will block out content themselves. This is the worst case scenario as I can't think of anything that can be done to hamper these laws against content and have an impact.
So what should we do if government from ISPs as a result of all this? We must not allow content prohibition laws from existing.
I don't want to sound like FUD but US aerospace regulations apply to other countries as well. The United States have jurisdiction in matters regarding anything that reaches a certain altitude. You can't do this ANYWHERE. You would have to get permission from the United States to be able to launch a rocket into space. Therefore, the United States is the gatekeeper to space. For example, what would pervent a terrorist in Mexico, which has very lax de facto terrorism screens, from launching a chemical weapon into the United States? This line of thinking is responsible for these regulations. Do not be suprised when regulations like these expand to communications. Transportation has already been taken care of in the form of aerospace regulations and the FAA. Communications will be next because of cyberterrorism. Just be aware of imperialism.
Just look at the way they do 1U rackmount servers. They are I think 1.75 inches deep, which is about 10%-50% thicker than a laptop. Or perhaps use a laptop motherboard.
3ware Escalade series products provide incredible amounts of storage for your needs. A single card can support up to 12 serial ATA hard drives. One can put 24 400GB hard drives into a 5U case and expect 8.8 TB at one's disposal. Since the question is regarding personal fileservers, I would expect an expectation of lowered cost. Having a single machine embody the entireity of one's needs is more cost effective than having multiple machines doing the job. That 8.8 TB assumes RAID 5 setup, which means that one of the drives, out of 12 on a card, will act as a parity check. This setup will provide great storage capacity in a highly reliable package. The cost of such a system is less than that of other servers with the same storage capacity.
There are serious investigations into making cache optimized algorithms. For example, the matrix transposition and array index bit reversal algorithms have been investigated in two papers. Also, Bailey's 4-step and 6-step FFT algorithms are also cache efficient. The latter example shows that a complex algorithm such as a FFT can be made cache efficient with the sacrafice of only a few extra computations. Perhaps it would be prudent to use a hybrid ray-tracer/polynomial renderer to section each portion of the screen into regions that will only access a particular portion of memory. In fact, texture mapping is a lot like that. But I propose that we section the geometry into sections that are localized in memory. This will require more computation in the form of checking which ray goes where but it might be possible to create a viable ray tracer/polygon renderer that produces images of ray tracing caliber. By polygon renderer I mean the renderers that we currently use in gaming.
Some references about cache efficiency.
I perfer Cocoa Programming by Scott Anguish. It is a great Cocoa book as it describes many aspects of Cocoa, not just making a GUI like most books I've seen. It describes the philosophy, principles, design, and even implementation of Cocoa. It is more in-depth than any Cocoa book I've seen. It is the only Cocoa book I know of that contains more than 1000 pages. And as for value, it is an invaluable reference to any Cocoa programmer and the cost is not much either as you can find it in some outlet book stores for about twenty dollars. I would certainly recommend Cocoa Programming to anyone interested in developing for the Macintosh OS Ten.
Also remember that Plextor is making a Serial ATA version of this drive. This is one of the very fist Serial ATA optical drive on the market.
Apple is very kind. When I brought in my iBook for repair because of that nasty Logic Board problem, Apple serviced and delivered my computer free of charge for me. On top of that, they sent me a copy of Panther when the repairs were over. Apple must be selling their operating systems not based solely on a profit basis. I would assume that the reason Apple is charging the $130 for each "upgrade" of their operating systems (they are not upgrades but full versions only) is because they assume that the only people buying them are not upgrading, but buying from scratch. It would be interesting for Apple to set up a "n-year upgrade program" where you get every release of your particular OS for those n years. They are already doing that for their server operating systems.
Like the shape of space-time made by a black hole? Also, one surface of a hyperbola can be deformed into a trumpet shape quite easily.
Sorry, the info is right here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?InSovietRussia
The "In Soviet Russia..." jokes began surfacing on the internet because of the Family Guy episode where Peter plays around with his car's navigation system, and turns it to Russian. The navigation system says: "In Soviet Russia, car drives You!".
(variant: Another InSovietRussia joke in that episode: Navigation system: "Turn right at fork in road. In Soviet Russia, road forks you!").
This is one of the closest, and on topic, post to the original, modern, joke in recorded Slashdot history.
Here is more info. Have fun.
OT: I misread it as "Science: A Black Box for People", where I thought that the article was about science being so complex that the average Joe/Jane can't grok how most of our advancements have been achieved. People, in general, regard most technology as black boxes because they have absolutely know clue as to how stuff works. Science might be a black box also because most discoveries are so esoteric that people have no idea what they are, much less how it will benifit their lives. This could be dangerous because rhetoric about science being harmful to society and humanity is easier to understand to the average person and that can lead to a resentment of science to the point where people will demand an outright ban on scientific advancement, which will lead to another dark age.
I would look at Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming Volume 3 Chapter 6 to find information about string searching. I bet that Hyper-Card uses a combination of algorithms in that chapter.
This is the second flight in the X-43A project. On June 2, 2001, the first X-43A vehicle was lost moments after release from the B-52. Following booster ignition, the vehicle deviated from its flight path and was deliberately destroyed. The mishap investigation concluded there was no single contributing factor, but the root cause of the problem was identified as the control system of the booster --NASA
The first X-43A flight ended in failure June 2, 2001, after the modified Pegasus rocket that carried the plane veered off course and was detonated. --WFTV
I wonder how this flight will pan out?
Here are some departments with different colors. Not new colors but still different is good, I think.
That's nothing, the adc and sbb (add and subtract with carry) instructions take 8 cycles! That is 8 times what it was like on the Pentium 3. At least the add, sub, xor, not, and, or, neg instructions take only 0.5 cycles.
"The Matrix has you." Sad really.
Cinelerra(video editing)
Transcode(video encoding)
Gear Pro(not free)
mkisofs (for making images with the -dvd-video switch)
linuxvideostudio (gooey)
lsdvd (for listing dvd contents
But still the increase in skull size can result in increased probability of death for both the infant and the mother during the birthing process. This is one of the main reasons why humans do not have astronomically large craniums. Unless there is a way nature/humans can allow for the growth of larger craniums, we will remain as smart as we are now.
But he has links to some free math books at his home page including a link to a calculus book in progress. He also had the CRC Encyclopedia of Mathematics there back when Mathworld was offline.
The REAL solution is a loser pays system. That way, doctors will not be sued unless it is a case that will definately will in court. For those who say that some people with real legitimate claims will step away from suing are ignoring a very key point: a loser pays system will only result in legitimate claims being brought to court. Those who have doubts that they will lose can instead buy insurance. That's right, insurance. People with legitimate, but precarious, claims can be insured in case they lose. The insurance company will pay all the defendent's legal fees in case the defendent wins. If the plaintiff wins then the insurance company and the lawyer will both get a sizeable amount of the reward. The amount lawyers recieve will decrease since there will be less of an incentive for lawyers to offer their services. In the loser pays system, only the right side wins. Those who disagree can look at the European countries where this system has been adopted and see for themselves the result of such a system.