Although I am by no means a router expert, it would seem logical that a majority of the latency in the network is caused by the actual reception and subsequent "analysis" of the packets. After all, the "response time", or "spped" of electricity is at best close to the speed of light.
This is a common misconception. Electrical transistors have a speed (read latency) that is mostly dependent on the voltage applied to them. (Hence over-volt on CPUs)
This technology would in effect change the rate that the transistor switched, thus changeing the latency.
Related: MS03-008: Flaw in Windows Script Engine may allow code to run.
And I thought it was supposed to do that...
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Picture a driving game, where roadside signs fly past you.. Rather than properly rendering them in 3D, they're just sprites that expand as they're "closer". Rendered in real 3D, they look like some screwed up floating box that expands and shrinks..
This would depend entirely on how the sprite display was programmed. If it went through a transform to expand and skew properly (Strictly a 2D transform) there would be little or no difference in a 2D vs. 3D dislplay. Granted this takes more work than a simple makeLargerAsViewerNears(); but it is quite simple. Also with the graphics of today it is better and sometimes faster to make the object a simple static 3D object so that it is better optimized.
The main problem is not space, it's power and heat generation. The older computer generate more heat and use more power per Mhz than they are worth. Now days if you want a grid of low end modern computers you can put a 2Ghz node up for about 250~300 USD.
That all depends. At my work I wrote a network traffic analizer for our internet connection. Initially this was a simple perl script that collected and aggragated data, was run from a command line, and generated a report for the time run. The the project requirements were later canged to be able to run the collector from a cron job to generate files that could have a reporting tool ran on. Shortly after the code went into production there was a problem of scailabilty - perl wasn't up to the task of keeping real-time data on the acent equiptment. I had to recode the collector in C. Later my manager wanted the ability to view results from a webpage, by then I had developed an API of sorts and recoded most of the perl report generators into C for speed. Since with PHP it is much eiser to grab HTML forms input than in C I went ahead and coded the front end in PHP. Sometime in the future I plan on looking over the code to add some small bits of functionality that could be inserted but as it stands because of the backend/frontend seperation I can make drastic changes to one without changing the other.
After all, most companies don't bother enforcing patents violated by individuals
Umm... I don't think that you can abuse a pattent as an individual. Patent violation implies profit being made by said abuse. As an individual I can lookup any patent and create said invention as long as I only use it for personal use (ie you don't sell it.)
Copyright on the other hand is a different story (no pun intended.)
Better than this would be Cooperative Linux. With coLinux you can run a full distro under windows. Add VNC and you can even get GUI apps to work.
This of course is assuming that you are not going to go through with setting up a dual-boot system or such. Personally I run Linux 90% of the time and only run windows to get to the very few apps that I need that don't run in wine or have a linux equiv.
For a linux distro I reccomend Mandrake for laptops because they have a somewhat cleaner support for odd hotplug hardware that is common use with laptops. (WiFi cards for example)
But interperted code usualy can get by this little "feature" since the code is not executed directly and is located in a data segment, a buffer overflow can rewrite the data containing the code. Thus buffer overflows are still a big problem because many applications (web-browsers, email clients, etc.) contain script languages.
Well first off IANAL but, if I remember correctly, the artist can sue for more than "damages." In fact he can sue for *any* income derived from someone taking his work. All the artist has to do is prove that someone used his work with out permission and the infringer has to pay all income that can't be shown not to derive from this work.
This is a major thing when you are talking about advertizing because the effects are unknown (did all of the sales derive from the advertizement?)
If I remember correctly there was an artist that sued and won for a company distrubuting a flyer with a photo of one of his works on front. The "dammages" awarded was a significant portion of the income from the company.
What biblicists who get so excited over archaeological discoveries like these apparently can't understand is that extra biblical confirmation of some of the Bible does not constitute confirmation of all if the Bible.
This is not what the parent was trying to say. His post only stated that there wasn't conclusive evidence from archeology against the historical accuracy of the Bible.
The fact is that some archaeological discoveries in confirming part of the Bible simultaneously cast doubt on the accuracy of other parts.
The Bible is quite ethnocentric in that it usually only records the events that mattered to the religious sect at the time. This being said, it does not have a tenancy to portray the leaders in a continuous good light. The biblical records record victory as well as loss, most other records of the time record only victory (even when archeology has shown it was an astounding loss.) This to me means that we should take the historical record in the Bible as more accurate than any one cultures conflicting record.
Her conclusion was that the walls of Jericho were destroyed around 2300 B. C., about the same time that Ai was destroyed.
As to dates archaeologist and historian are always changing their minds. The dates you quoted have been revised several times and now stand closer to 1600 B.C.E.
As to the lack of evidence, there is lack of evidence in archeology for now but remember there was an even greater lack of evidence 20 years ago. If a lack of evidence makes you believe something as incorrect then those discoveries would never have been made. (Not to mention that several cryptographic algorithms are based on a lack of prof against them.)
Well, I had a laptop once get fried by an ESD through the keyboard. In fact the static charge was enough to fry the keyboard, keyboard controller, and the harddisk controller or so Toshiba says.:P
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Although I am by no means a router expert, it would seem logical that a majority of the latency in the network is caused by the actual reception and subsequent "analysis" of the packets. After all, the "response time", or "spped" of electricity is at best close to the speed of light.
This is a common misconception. Electrical transistors have a speed (read latency) that is mostly dependent on the voltage applied to them. (Hence over-volt on CPUs)
This technology would in effect change the rate that the transistor switched, thus changeing the latency.
Related:
MS03-008: Flaw in Windows Script Engine may allow code to run.
And I thought it was supposed to do that...
Picture a driving game, where roadside signs fly past you.. Rather than properly rendering them in 3D, they're just sprites that expand as they're "closer". Rendered in real 3D, they look like some screwed up floating box that expands and shrinks..
This would depend entirely on how the sprite display was programmed. If it went through a transform to expand and skew properly (Strictly a 2D transform) there would be little or no difference in a 2D vs. 3D dislplay. Granted this takes more work than a simple makeLargerAsViewerNears(); but it is quite simple.
Also with the graphics of today it is better and sometimes faster to make the object a simple static 3D object so that it is better optimized.
The main problem is not space, it's power and heat generation. The older computer generate more heat and use more power per Mhz than they are worth. Now days if you want a grid of low end modern computers you can put a 2Ghz node up for about 250~300 USD.
In 2 words "Windows NT" Microsoft got sued by DEC for the same kind of thing. DEC won.
That all depends. At my work I wrote a network traffic analizer for our internet connection. Initially this was a simple perl script that collected and aggragated data, was run from a command line, and generated a report for the time run. The the project requirements were later canged to be able to run the collector from a cron job to generate files that could have a reporting tool ran on. Shortly after the code went into production there was a problem of scailabilty - perl wasn't up to the task of keeping real-time data on the acent equiptment. I had to recode the collector in C. Later my manager wanted the ability to view results from a webpage, by then I had developed an API of sorts and recoded most of the perl report generators into C for speed. Since with PHP it is much eiser to grab HTML forms input than in C I went ahead and coded the front end in PHP. Sometime in the future I plan on looking over the code to add some small bits of functionality that could be inserted but as it stands because of the backend/frontend seperation I can make drastic changes to one without changing the other.
Umm... I don't think that you can abuse a pattent as an individual. Patent violation implies profit being made by said abuse. As an individual I can lookup any patent and create said invention as long as I only use it for personal use (ie you don't sell it.)
Copyright on the other hand is a different story (no pun intended.)
Better than this would be Cooperative Linux. With coLinux you can run a full distro under windows. Add VNC and you can even get GUI apps to work.
This of course is assuming that you are not going to go through with setting up a dual-boot system or such. Personally I run Linux 90% of the time and only run windows to get to the very few apps that I need that don't run in wine or have a linux equiv.
For a linux distro I reccomend Mandrake for laptops because they have a somewhat cleaner support for odd hotplug hardware that is common use with laptops. (WiFi cards for example)
But interperted code usualy can get by this little "feature" since the code is not executed directly and is located in a data segment, a buffer overflow can rewrite the data containing the code. Thus buffer overflows are still a big problem because many applications (web-browsers, email clients, etc.) contain script languages.
But the company would be in a lot of trouble if they let it continue. Not that I agree that holding them accountable for spam is a good thing.
Well first off IANAL but, if I remember correctly, the artist can sue for more than "damages." In fact he can sue for *any* income derived from someone taking his work. All the artist has to do is prove that someone used his work with out permission and the infringer has to pay all income that can't be shown not to derive from this work.
This is a major thing when you are talking about advertizing because the effects are unknown (did all of the sales derive from the advertizement?)
If I remember correctly there was an artist that sued and won for a company distrubuting a flyer with a photo of one of his works on front. The "dammages" awarded was a significant portion of the income from the company.
The Bible is quite ethnocentric in that it usually only records the events that mattered to the religious sect at the time. This being said, it does not have a tenancy to portray the leaders in a continuous good light. The biblical records record victory as well as loss, most other records of the time record only victory (even when archeology has shown it was an astounding loss.) This to me means that we should take the historical record in the Bible as more accurate than any one cultures conflicting record.
As to dates archaeologist and historian are always changing their minds. The dates you quoted have been revised several times and now stand closer to 1600 B.C.E.
As to the lack of evidence, there is lack of evidence in archeology for now but remember there was an even greater lack of evidence 20 years ago. If a lack of evidence makes you believe something as incorrect then those discoveries would never have been made. (Not to mention that several cryptographic algorithms are based on a lack of prof against them.)
Well, I had a laptop once get fried by an ESD through the keyboard. In fact the static charge was enough to fry the keyboard, keyboard controller, and the harddisk controller or so Toshiba says. :P