The human brain isn't actually that complex to implement since a lot of it is self generated, IBMs Blue Brain project have already simulated a mouses neo cortex (the part of the brain that makes conscious thought). They have been claiming to scale it up to a human one by 2010 for a while now...
Personally I think its some kind of secret AI SkyNet style research project. The current petaflop computers are fairly close to having the same computing capacity as the human brain based on best estimates but thats not the same as having the computing power to simulate one. This system is 20x more powerful though...
SSD drives are not as unreliable as people seem to think, It would take a *minimum* of 5 years of *continuous* writing and thats for the cheaper SSD's like you would find in a netbook rather than the $300 Intel top of the line ones, not to mention ones being used in a RAID would have a longer life.
Besides even if some blocks go bad you can map around them, the SSD itself might even do it.
Besides, you are unlikely to be using the same drive in 5 years time and magnetic drives have a much higher chance of failure, also when magnetic drives die often the entire drive dies at once, a few blocks failing is a much better solution.
In addition to that, the following is from the info on the SandDisc 3G drives: "The G3 SSDs provide a Long-term Data Endurance (LDE) of 160 terabytes written (TBW) for the 240GB version, sufficient for over 100 years of typical user usage.(2,3)", 4GB of writing a day is typical.
Also important to remember is that CD's degrade after 5-10 years and DVDs are likely to be quicker, unless your making them like those NASA ones they send out on the space probes that last 10,000 years (and cost heaps).
Hard drives are also likely to loose data due to magnetic force weakening over time (also solar flares and whatnot if its not insulated correctly).
A SSD should hopefully be able to retain data for a decent length of time (Although I don't know if this is the case for the 1st generation mainstream drives we are seeing now which have various issues), but I'm assuming this project just involves old scrap systems rather then spending a few hundred $ on something. Maybe you could for out some money for a few SD cards and reader. Once again they need shielding from solar flares.
When you consider that you only need to print once then never again, just keep uploading documents to the printed screen, you will probably save money.
Too bad the same government is also giving us a Chinese style censored Internet connection to 'protect the children'.
It has also been recently revealed that the connection can no longer be opted out from, you can only switch from one that blocks all 'child unfriendly' sites to one that only blocks 'illegal material'. No clear definition on what is considered 'illegal' (does the piratebay count?).
They also lied and claimed that Internet speeds would not be slowed dispute their reports claiming otherwise.
I just hope its a basic DNS block and I can switch to OpenDNS.
Anyway I voted green, mainly because both other governments sucked to much.
That is for security *NOT* anonymity, those are completely different things.
Paranoid people need to ensure that things like Banshee in Gnome don't perform the "Similar Artists" lookup in case the RIAA is watching, or they are in a place where the internet is restricted, or where there taste in music could get them in trouble.
Then there is the issue of cached files, Gnome by default keeps a listing of all the files you open, it keeps a thumbnail of image that appears in Nautilus. You need to disable a lot of that stuff by default in case someone access your system while your logged in (I assume you have an encrypted partition).
A secure kernel will only do so much to help, such as it will help stop malicious software from gaining root.
I also very much doubt the EA help desk is going to respond to "I brought it 2nd hand." in any circumstance. I also get the feeling "I wanted to see if it worked on Linux under Wine, then I tried Cedega and CrossOver and now I want to try XP and Vista" will get you very far either.
Also this is hardly an easing of the DRM due to the protests, its exactly the same as it was going to be *BEFOURE* Spore was released (then again Slashdot is slower to get news than Digg/Reddit), back when there was only some limited grumbling about the DRM. RA was already going to be 5 installs and Spore doesn't require the CD either, the only difference with the Spore system is 2 more installs, that is hardly a major change.
Since Spore release and since that RA announcement there has been heaps more consumer backlash over the system with many, many people pirating it to spite the DRM and several Digg/Reddit front pages.
Actually it turns out Linus owns a copyright over everything, Some kind of collection/colarge law.
So he can go GPLv3 if he wants to, in fact he has stated that he thinks going GPLv3 is inevitable in the future due to most GPLv2 stuff being forwards compatible but no GPLv3 stuff being backwards compatible, but he doesn't like it.
Does raise some issues with me though, such as what if an OpenSource copyright holder wants to take the code and go commercial or just make a bunch selling it. You can't get rid off the OpenSource stuff but you could sell it to a company under a commercial/BSD/MIT license.
I guess that magically somehow invalidates the fact that they can *make* a new laptop for $100 the same way some deal that requires you to buy a several thousand dollar laptop does.
Unless there is some mass market where people are buying these expensive laptops and reselling the $99 extra ones its not very much use.
Its like claiming that mobile phones cost $0 to manufacture.
Makes sense, by compiling for a specific architecture you can get a %5-%10 performance increase.
If the JIT compiler uses less than the %5-%10 and can optimise for the arch then its a saving. Of course it won't be a saving over compiling the code specifically for the architecture in the first place, but it is rare to see that (Gentoo'ers and other build from source distros).
And multi-core processors are going to further reduce the speed since you can just offload the JIT to one of the other cores (of several if its threaded) and since few programs are very well threaded it shouldn't be a problem (and the kinds of things that are well threaded generally are longer number crunching tasks so the initial compile will be a small amount of the overall speed).
In addition to that you might find other cool things like the ability to thread non-threaded code in some instances. For instance there is no reason for a basic function that's return value isn't used for a fairly long time not to be threaded, you can sort a list while you continue pass it on through the rest of the program as long as you don't actually need to read the content to decide where to send it or try and do something to it.
As for memory, ram is cheap enough now that it shouldn't be a problem, 4GB will be fairly standard soon. Ubuntu already burns around 500Mb for me doing nothing.
I know this is a little off topic but, I Googled "Phn'glui M'gl wna'f, Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgha Nagl Ftaghn" the second listing was from the parent post above! Indexed by Google about 90 min. after it was posted. Forget welcoming our Rat brained overlords, better watch out for our all knowing Google Overlords.
Perhaps the Google spiderbot just likes to read Slashdot.
Although that could also be a cause for concern...
The OGG container format seems to be getting Dirac support.
Theora does seem dated, also Dirac defeats Apple/Nokias claim of 'submarine' patents as its built on out of patent technologies and research papers. And with close to h264 compression it should be good.
There is also OMS Video from Sun (another substantial yet).
I wrote a whole load on the various codecs, (need to add SNOW and Tarkin information at some point, I only found out about them here but there doesn't seem to be much to hear about them).
http://h3g3m0n.wordpress.com/
Besides how many other web server are there? Everything is either ISS or Apache. The next closest would be tomcat which is an Apache project anyway.
Sure there are a hundred thousand others but they have less %1 market usage.
Of course internet wide, probably means Windows clients wide. Although with the Mono/Moonlight project MS are gearing up to get Silverlight into mainstream usage. I think after that happens they will add patented technologies to the standard and not give it to Mono (If they don't already have patents).
Slashdot Mirror
I also wounder if its because Nexuiz is OpenGL. So the difference between OpenGL Linux vs OpenGL Windows and also Direct3D should be considered.
You know Google probably have a vast amount of information about secret government facilities.
Countries, just tell this large American corporation all the things you don't want anyone to know about.
Not to mention all the webbased email accounts hosting in America, does anyone think that the FBI doesn't have a direct thunk to the Googleplex?
The human brain isn't actually that complex to implement since a lot of it is self generated, IBMs Blue Brain project have already simulated a mouses neo cortex (the part of the brain that makes conscious thought). They have been claiming to scale it up to a human one by 2010 for a while now...
Personally I think its some kind of secret AI SkyNet style research project. The current petaflop computers are fairly close to having the same computing capacity as the human brain based on best estimates but thats not the same as having the computing power to simulate one. This system is 20x more powerful though...
So submit a patch.
How many people are going to be developing on non-x86 systems anyway?
No but windows does have BSD code in it. Specifically ftp.exe and some zlib code.
SSD drives are not as unreliable as people seem to think, It would take a *minimum* of 5 years of *continuous* writing and thats for the cheaper SSD's like you would find in a netbook rather than the $300 Intel top of the line ones, not to mention ones being used in a RAID would have a longer life.
Besides even if some blocks go bad you can map around them, the SSD itself might even do it.
Besides, you are unlikely to be using the same drive in 5 years time and magnetic drives have a much higher chance of failure, also when magnetic drives die often the entire drive dies at once, a few blocks failing is a much better solution.
In addition to that, the following is from the info on the SandDisc 3G drives: "The G3 SSDs provide a Long-term Data Endurance (LDE) of 160 terabytes written (TBW) for the 240GB version, sufficient for over 100 years of typical user usage.(2,3)", 4GB of writing a day is typical.
Perhaps the spasm was due to an injury obtained from the Emacs shortcuts.
Also important to remember is that CD's degrade after 5-10 years and DVDs are likely to be quicker, unless your making them like those NASA ones they send out on the space probes that last 10,000 years (and cost heaps).
Hard drives are also likely to loose data due to magnetic force weakening over time (also solar flares and whatnot if its not insulated correctly).
A SSD should hopefully be able to retain data for a decent length of time (Although I don't know if this is the case for the 1st generation mainstream drives we are seeing now which have various issues), but I'm assuming this project just involves old scrap systems rather then spending a few hundred $ on something. Maybe you could for out some money for a few SD cards and reader. Once again they need shielding from solar flares.
I was just thinking that, but I don't think you can tell when a particle is measured without measuring it which then collapses the waveform anyway.
When you consider that you only need to print once then never again, just keep uploading documents to the printed screen, you will probably save money.
I used the following to warn me when my system crashed.
/home/hegemon/bin/Go\ Go\'s-\ HEY\ MICKEY\!\ \(1\).mp3
#!/bin/sh
while true; do
ssh -o ServerAliveInterval=2 -o ConnectTimeout=5 ender echo OK: \`date\` || mpg123
sleep 1
done
Need to setup ssh keys for pass wordless login though.
Nope its called exploring, stop making up completely arbitrary definitions of words based on what you 'feel' they mean.
explore:
1. To investigate systematically; examine: explore every possibility.
2. To search into or travel in for the purpose of discovery: exploring outer space.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/explore
Too bad the same government is also giving us a Chinese style censored Internet connection to 'protect the children'.
It has also been recently revealed that the connection can no longer be opted out from, you can only switch from one that blocks all 'child unfriendly' sites to one that only blocks 'illegal material'. No clear definition on what is considered 'illegal' (does the piratebay count?).
They also lied and claimed that Internet speeds would not be slowed dispute their reports claiming otherwise.
I just hope its a basic DNS block and I can switch to OpenDNS.
Anyway I voted green, mainly because both other governments sucked to much.
That is for security *NOT* anonymity, those are completely different things.
Paranoid people need to ensure that things like Banshee in Gnome don't perform the "Similar Artists" lookup in case the RIAA is watching, or they are in a place where the internet is restricted, or where there taste in music could get them in trouble.
Then there is the issue of cached files, Gnome by default keeps a listing of all the files you open, it keeps a thumbnail of image that appears in Nautilus. You need to disable a lot of that stuff by default in case someone access your system while your logged in (I assume you have an encrypted partition).
A secure kernel will only do so much to help, such as it will help stop malicious software from gaining root.
I also very much doubt the EA help desk is going to respond to "I brought it 2nd hand." in any circumstance. I also get the feeling "I wanted to see if it worked on Linux under Wine, then I tried Cedega and CrossOver and now I want to try XP and Vista" will get you very far either.
Also this is hardly an easing of the DRM due to the protests, its exactly the same as it was going to be *BEFOURE* Spore was released (then again Slashdot is slower to get news than Digg/Reddit), back when there was only some limited grumbling about the DRM. RA was already going to be 5 installs and Spore doesn't require the CD either, the only difference with the Spore system is 2 more installs, that is hardly a major change.
Since Spore release and since that RA announcement there has been heaps more consumer backlash over the system with many, many people pirating it to spite the DRM and several Digg/Reddit front pages.
Actually it turns out Linus owns a copyright over everything, Some kind of collection/colarge law.
So he can go GPLv3 if he wants to, in fact he has stated that he thinks going GPLv3 is inevitable in the future due to most GPLv2 stuff being forwards compatible but no GPLv3 stuff being backwards compatible, but he doesn't like it.
Does raise some issues with me though, such as what if an OpenSource copyright holder wants to take the code and go commercial or just make a bunch selling it. You can't get rid off the OpenSource stuff but you could sell it to a company under a commercial/BSD/MIT license.
Its not late, that is not a sub $100 laptop.
You know I was GIVEN an old laptop years ago.
I guess that magically somehow invalidates the fact that they can *make* a new laptop for $100 the same way some deal that requires you to buy a several thousand dollar laptop does.
Unless there is some mass market where people are buying these expensive laptops and reselling the $99 extra ones its not very much use.
Its like claiming that mobile phones cost $0 to manufacture.
Makes sense, by compiling for a specific architecture you can get a %5-%10 performance increase. If the JIT compiler uses less than the %5-%10 and can optimise for the arch then its a saving. Of course it won't be a saving over compiling the code specifically for the architecture in the first place, but it is rare to see that (Gentoo'ers and other build from source distros). And multi-core processors are going to further reduce the speed since you can just offload the JIT to one of the other cores (of several if its threaded) and since few programs are very well threaded it shouldn't be a problem (and the kinds of things that are well threaded generally are longer number crunching tasks so the initial compile will be a small amount of the overall speed). In addition to that you might find other cool things like the ability to thread non-threaded code in some instances. For instance there is no reason for a basic function that's return value isn't used for a fairly long time not to be threaded, you can sort a list while you continue pass it on through the rest of the program as long as you don't actually need to read the content to decide where to send it or try and do something to it. As for memory, ram is cheap enough now that it shouldn't be a problem, 4GB will be fairly standard soon. Ubuntu already burns around 500Mb for me doing nothing.
I know this is a little off topic but, I Googled "Phn'glui M'gl wna'f, Cthulhu R'lyeh Wgha Nagl Ftaghn" the second listing was from the parent post above! Indexed by Google about 90 min. after it was posted. Forget welcoming our Rat brained overlords, better watch out for our all knowing Google Overlords.
Perhaps the Google spiderbot just likes to read Slashdot. Although that could also be a cause for concern...
The OGG container format seems to be getting Dirac support. Theora does seem dated, also Dirac defeats Apple/Nokias claim of 'submarine' patents as its built on out of patent technologies and research papers. And with close to h264 compression it should be good. There is also OMS Video from Sun (another substantial yet). I wrote a whole load on the various codecs, (need to add SNOW and Tarkin information at some point, I only found out about them here but there doesn't seem to be much to hear about them). http://h3g3m0n.wordpress.com/
No but its does imply %75 or so.
Besides how many other web server are there? Everything is either ISS or Apache. The next closest would be tomcat which is an Apache project anyway.
Sure there are a hundred thousand others but they have less %1 market usage.
Of course internet wide, probably means Windows clients wide. Although with the Mono/Moonlight project MS are gearing up to get Silverlight into mainstream usage. I think after that happens they will add patented technologies to the standard and not give it to Mono (If they don't already have patents).
"realh4x0rZuseemacs4shell" happens to be a common emacs keyboard short cut.
The beard is what makes him immortal. Clearly he is a wizard.
Perhaps you will get the chance to do it digitally.
Just randomly mix 2 cd's of genomes together.
You could always release your genome under the Creative Commons.
Although paying child support could be a bitch.