Agreed. I was checking this out a week back (and perhaps should have gotten first dibs on a story at Slashdot).
Although I'm a bit of a techie but I haven't looked at processors in a while. So I visited the intel website and I found it impossible to penetrate the permutations of the set {Pentium, D, Dual, Core, HT, Extreme}. They mean nothing to me except, perhaps, sound cool.
So I figred that they MUST have some kind of comparison chart so that I can make some sense of this. Really had to dig for it, but I found this So, er.. that still doesn't help me. I want to know how fast / powerful / capable a processor is. Who cares whether it has HT or if it's Exxxtreeeme!
Look at the fine print at the bottom of any product comparison page - "Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/ for details."
Go ahead and click it. You will find : "The processor number is not a measurement of performance, nor is it the only factor to consider when selecting a processor.
The digits themselves have no inherent meaning, particularly when looking across processor families. For instance, 840 is not "better" than 640 simply because 8 is greater than 6.
Furthermore, linear increments between processor numbers may not indicate linear feature advancements. For example, the differences in processor features between an Intel® Pentium® M processor 760 and an Intel® Pentium® M processor 765 will not be the same as between an Intel® Pentium® M processor 765 and an Intel® Pentium® M processor 770, even though both pairs of processors are separated by an increment of five digits.
Processor numbers do not represent specific system configurations and do not replace system-level benchmarks."
WTF?!
Yes, perhaps it is a good idea to start naming processors after "features" because focus has started shifting towards better design of processors (rather than just brute force speed). But then again, I would like some solid benchmark to compare all these processors.
I say they should just measure in FLOPS and leave it be. What they have now is just sad.
Yes, it is interesting how MSN and Yahoo serve ads in almost exactly the format that google does. I haven't used these other searh engines for so many years now. When did this change come about?
Here's what viruses do: They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.
Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.
Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.
Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too. Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences: Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
AND the grammar is terrible. Was he using babelfish?
"I have been taken a closer look..." [ yeah.. sure ] "... that magic combinations of features..." [un-pluralize] "... and came to some surprising results." [conclusions! not results] "After creating a list of all the traits of a Type Manager I was able to define exactly what a file manager should be and discovered that there are in fact many partial Type Managers out there now that implemented only half of what makes up a full Type Manager." [MS Word style: Fragment (no suggestions)]
Even in TFA he doesn't know where to use commas.
"... I was able to define exactly what..." [I don't like the word "exactly". It makes him sound like a person with high authority in the subject, and I highly doubt that.]
Reliability tests? Simple communications? My best guess is that it's a technology demo. But really, what is the science / learning that they're getting from it? Hope it's not just another piece of space junk floating about. But with 23 universities involved.. who uses the sat? how do they do the timesharing? how does it find use in classes? If they really wanted to teach people what goes into making a satellite then they could just have put the whole sat into a custom made simulator back on earth instead of actually putting it out in space. It would cost a lot less too!
There are 5 friends Each has the number of dollars/other currency that corresponds to their friend number, i.e.... friend #1 has $1 friend #2 has $2 . . friend $5 has $5
So now, these blokes want to get into business, but they want to start off on equal footing. Yet, being the farmer-descended harvard grads that they all are, they want to get to an 'equal footing' through a business plan -- simply exchanging money amongst themselves would be a gross misuse of their collective intellect.
One of these farm boys suggests that they get into wheat sales. There's a weekly Farmer's Market that is organized every sunday in the parking lot of the local super-mall, and there are plenty of wheat-gorging locals in the neighbourhood. If they wait sufficiently late into the evening to bring out their goods, they can name any price since most of the other retailers should have run out of quality wheat. Besides, he knows a place where they can get wheat @ $1 per 20 kilos, and they can make a pretty decent profit off of it.
The others like the idea, and just for kicks, they set up the following rules. 1. They will sell their wheat till it's all gone. Obviously. 2. They will all sell their wheat together, starting on the same weekend. 3. They must all finish selling off the last quantities of their wheat on the same weekend, no sooner no later. 4. Individual amounts sold per sunday are irrelevant, but must be non-zero. None shall abstain from selling on any weekend. 5. Each weekend they will decide on one selling rate and stick to it. All quantities of wheat sold on that weekend must conform to the rate they have decided upon. 6. On the last day, their collective earnings over all the weekends must add up to be the same i.e. the original richest kid and the original poorest kid (and all the rest) must end up with the same amount of money in-hand.
On the first sunday, based on the money they had in-hand, each starts out with the following amount of wheat... friend #1 has 20 kg friend #2 has 40 kg friend #3 has 60 kg friend #4 has 80 kg friend #5 has 100 kg
In order to fulfil their objective, how many weekends will they take, how much wheat will each of them sell on each weekend, and what rate will they decide for each of the weekends that they sell their wares?
There are 5 friends
Each has the number of dollars/other currency that corresponds to their friend
number, i.e....
friend #1 has $1
friend #2 has $2
.
.
friend $5 has $5
So now, these blokes want to get into business, but they want to start
off on equal footing. Yet, being the farmer-descended Harvard grads
that they all are, they want to get to an 'equal footing' through a
business plan -- simply exchanging money amongst themselves would be a
gross misuse of their collective intellect.
One of these farm boys suggests that they get into wheat sales.
There's a weekly Farmer's Market that is organized every sunday in the
parking lot of the local super-mall, and there are plenty of
wheat-gorging locals in the neighbourhood. If they wait sufficiently
late into the evening to bring out their goods, they can name any
price since most of the other retailers should have run out of quality
wheat. Besides, he knows a place where they can get wheat @ $1 per 20
kilos, and they can make a pretty decent profit off of it.
The others like the idea, and just for kicks, they set up the following rules.
1. They will sell their wheat till it's all gone. Obviously.
2. They will all sell their wheat together, starting on the same weekend.
3. They must all finish selling off the last quantities of their wheat
on the same weekend, no sooner no later.
4. Individual amounts sold per sunday are irrelevant, but must be
non-zero. None shall abstain from selling on any weekend.
5. Each weekend they will decide on one selling rate and stick to it.
All quantities of wheat sold on that weekend must conform to the rate
they have decided upon.
6. On the last day, their collective earnings over all the weekends
must add up to be the same i.e. the original richest kid and the
original poorest kid (and all the rest) must end up with the same
amount of money in-hand.
On the first sunday, based on the money they had in-hand, each starts
out with the following amount of wheat...
friend #1 has 20 kg
friend #2 has 40 kg
friend #3 has 60 kg
friend #4 has 80 kg
friend #5 has 100 kg
In order to fulfil their objective, how many weekends will they take,
how much wheat will each of them sell on each weekend, and what rate
will they decide for each of the weekends that they sell their wares?
The result of the last integral is not 0, but an arbitrary constant since the integral has no limits. So this arbitrary constant can be 1. That's poor integration.
For instance, Half-Life got it right both times. Doom 3 didn't do such a good job (too repetitive, and full of cheap scares).
I don't know anyone who'd say that F22 Raptor (or its clone Chromium BSU), or even Super Mario, is a boring game. Are there any super-froody graphics there? Don't see any.
I'd rather play those old-timers that entertain me for a few good minutes so that I can relax / refresh myself and then get back to work. Life is too short to waste hours upon hours playing video games.
So you suggest that the Hollywood copyright police sit around on bittorrent hosting their own "stolen" movies, or masquerading as torrent peers, waiting so that you'd connect to them and that they'd record your IP?
You could download the torrents from a public computer (no login) at your school/library, and then actually perform the downloading at home. How can that be traced back to you?
Agreed. Downloading a torrent file isn't proof that you actually used it.
Maybe you're just some strange strange guy who likes to collect.torrent files.
Maybe you're mirroring the website for your friends in China who may not have direct access to it.
Maybe you're.. er.. out of ideas.
Why is this called "research"? How is this scholarly in any way?
Shouldn't this just be called "trying out neat new things to do with Linux" ?
Gosh!
Now all that aside, what's so cool about it? If I had a team of people smart enough to do something like this, I'd rather have that intellectual capacity directed at something more 'useful'. I'm not a CS person so I lack examples, but I'm sure people can come up with some.
"Men accounted for 71% or nearly 1.9 mln site visitors, compared to the women who comprised 29% or the minority population who visited in March 2005."
How do they know this? How do they gather such demographical information? Kinda weird since I usually consider my online activities quite gender free... especially if I'm not filling any forms.
Slashdot Mirror
Agreed. I was checking this out a week back (and perhaps should have gotten first dibs on a story at Slashdot).
.. that still doesn't help me. I want to know how fast / powerful / capable a processor is. Who cares whether it has HT or if it's Exxxtreeeme!
Although I'm a bit of a techie but I haven't looked at processors in a while. So I visited the intel website and I found it impossible to penetrate the permutations of the set {Pentium, D, Dual, Core, HT, Extreme}. They mean nothing to me except, perhaps, sound cool.
So I figred that they MUST have some kind of comparison chart so that I can make some sense of this. Really had to dig for it, but I found this
So, er
Look at the fine print at the bottom of any product comparison page - "Intel processor numbers are not a measure of performance. Processor numbers differentiate features within each processor family, not across different processor families. See http://www.intel.com/products/processor_number/ for details."
Go ahead and click it. You will find :
"The processor number is not a measurement of performance, nor is it the only factor to consider when selecting a processor.
The digits themselves have no inherent meaning, particularly when looking across processor families. For instance, 840 is not "better" than 640 simply because 8 is greater than 6.
Furthermore, linear increments between processor numbers may not indicate linear feature advancements. For example, the differences in processor features between an Intel® Pentium® M processor 760 and an Intel® Pentium® M processor 765 will not be the same as between an Intel® Pentium® M processor 765 and an Intel® Pentium® M processor 770, even though both pairs of processors are separated by an increment of five digits.
Processor numbers do not represent specific system configurations and do not replace system-level benchmarks."
WTF?!
Yes, perhaps it is a good idea to start naming processors after "features" because focus has started shifting towards better design of processors (rather than just brute force speed). But then again, I would like some solid benchmark to compare all these processors.
I say they should just measure in FLOPS and leave it be. What they have now is just sad.
It's called "Data Mining". It's a major active research field.
Yes, it is interesting how MSN and Yahoo serve ads in almost exactly the format that google does. I haven't used these other searh engines for so many years now. When did this change come about?
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q= prescription&btnG=Search
This is probably what he means.
Is Windows a virus?
No, Windows is not a virus.
Here's what viruses do:
They replicate quickly - okay, Windows does that.
Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so - okay, Windows does that.
Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk - okay, Windows does that too.
Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems. Sigh... Windows does that, too. Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware. Yup, that's with Windows, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences: Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.
So Windows is not a virus.
It's a bug
AND the grammar is terrible. Was he using babelfish?
.. sure ] ..." [un-pluralize]
..."
"I have been taken a closer look..." [ yeah
"... that magic combinations of features
"... and came to some surprising results." [conclusions! not results]
"After creating a list of all the traits of a Type Manager I was able to define exactly what a file manager should be and discovered that there are in fact many partial Type Managers out there now that implemented only half of what makes up a full Type Manager." [MS Word style: Fragment (no suggestions)]
Even in TFA he doesn't know where to use commas.
"... I was able to define exactly what
[I don't like the word "exactly". It makes him sound like a person with high authority in the subject, and I highly doubt that.]
Sigh
Q > Where are the missing solar neutrinos?
.. god did it.
A > Well, maybe my model is wrong.
A > Uh... yeah
You decide which one of these makes you sound incredibly stupid.
Thank you CowboyNeal.. it's been a while since we had a good dupe.
Sorry about that. Please read my reply to the parent.
Er .. yes.. I forgot to mention that she worked with Schon. The other guy from Bell Labs mentioned in the article? :-)
Sorry about that. Go ahead and follow the links.
Reliability tests? Simple communications? My best guess is that it's a technology demo. But really, what is the science / learning that they're getting from it? Hope it's not just another piece of space junk floating about. But with 23 universities involved.. who uses the sat? how do they do the timesharing? how does it find use in classes? If they really wanted to teach people what goes into making a satellite then they could just have put the whole sat into a custom made simulator back on earth instead of actually putting it out in space. It would cost a lot less too!
Zhenan Bao for that matter is already an assistant prof at Stanford.t /03Faculty/Bao/bao.html
http://chemeng.stanford.edu/01About_the_Departmen
Babelfish sucks so bad. I can't make any sense of it.
Just to make it more legible.
...
========
There are 5 friends
Each has the number of dollars/other currency that corresponds to their friend
number, i.e.
friend #1 has $1
friend #2 has $2
.
.
friend $5 has $5
So now, these blokes want to get into business, but they want to start
off on equal footing. Yet, being the farmer-descended harvard grads
that they all are, they want to get to an 'equal footing' through a
business plan -- simply exchanging money amongst themselves would be a
gross misuse of their collective intellect.
One of these farm boys suggests that they get into wheat sales.
There's a weekly Farmer's Market that is organized every sunday in the
parking lot of the local super-mall, and there are plenty of
wheat-gorging locals in the neighbourhood. If they wait sufficiently
late into the evening to bring out their goods, they can name any
price since most of the other retailers should have run out of quality
wheat. Besides, he knows a place where they can get wheat @ $1 per 20
kilos, and they can make a pretty decent profit off of it.
The others like the idea, and just for kicks, they set up the following rules.
1. They will sell their wheat till it's all gone. Obviously.
2. They will all sell their wheat together, starting on the same weekend.
3. They must all finish selling off the last quantities of their wheat
on the same weekend, no sooner no later.
4. Individual amounts sold per sunday are irrelevant, but must be
non-zero. None shall abstain from selling on any weekend.
5. Each weekend they will decide on one selling rate and stick to it.
All quantities of wheat sold on that weekend must conform to the rate
they have decided upon.
6. On the last day, their collective earnings over all the weekends
must add up to be the same i.e. the original richest kid and the
original poorest kid (and all the rest) must end up with the same
amount of money in-hand.
On the first sunday, based on the money they had in-hand, each starts
out with the following amount of wheat...
friend #1 has 20 kg
friend #2 has 40 kg
friend #3 has 60 kg
friend #4 has 80 kg
friend #5 has 100 kg
In order to fulfil their objective, how many weekends will they take,
how much wheat will each of them sell on each weekend, and what rate
will they decide for each of the weekends that they sell their wares?
There are 5 friends Each has the number of dollars/other currency that corresponds to their friend number, i.e. ...
friend #1 has $1
friend #2 has $2
.
.
friend $5 has $5
So now, these blokes want to get into business, but they want to start
off on equal footing. Yet, being the farmer-descended Harvard grads
that they all are, they want to get to an 'equal footing' through a
business plan -- simply exchanging money amongst themselves would be a
gross misuse of their collective intellect.
One of these farm boys suggests that they get into wheat sales.
There's a weekly Farmer's Market that is organized every sunday in the
parking lot of the local super-mall, and there are plenty of
wheat-gorging locals in the neighbourhood. If they wait sufficiently
late into the evening to bring out their goods, they can name any
price since most of the other retailers should have run out of quality
wheat. Besides, he knows a place where they can get wheat @ $1 per 20
kilos, and they can make a pretty decent profit off of it.
The others like the idea, and just for kicks, they set up the following rules.
1. They will sell their wheat till it's all gone. Obviously.
2. They will all sell their wheat together, starting on the same weekend.
3. They must all finish selling off the last quantities of their wheat
on the same weekend, no sooner no later.
4. Individual amounts sold per sunday are irrelevant, but must be
non-zero. None shall abstain from selling on any weekend.
5. Each weekend they will decide on one selling rate and stick to it.
All quantities of wheat sold on that weekend must conform to the rate
they have decided upon.
6. On the last day, their collective earnings over all the weekends
must add up to be the same i.e. the original richest kid and the
original poorest kid (and all the rest) must end up with the same
amount of money in-hand.
On the first sunday, based on the money they had in-hand, each starts
out with the following amount of wheat...
friend #1 has 20 kg
friend #2 has 40 kg
friend #3 has 60 kg
friend #4 has 80 kg
friend #5 has 100 kg
In order to fulfil their objective, how many weekends will they take,
how much wheat will each of them sell on each weekend, and what rate
will they decide for each of the weekends that they sell their wares?
The result of the last integral is not 0, but an arbitrary constant since the integral has no limits. So this arbitrary constant can be 1. That's poor integration.
Agreed mostly.
For instance, Half-Life got it right both times. Doom 3 didn't do such a good job (too repetitive, and full of cheap scares).
I don't know anyone who'd say that F22 Raptor (or its clone Chromium BSU), or even Super Mario, is a boring game. Are there any super-froody graphics there? Don't see any.
I'd rather play those old-timers that entertain me for a few good minutes so that I can relax / refresh myself and then get back to work. Life is too short to waste hours upon hours playing video games.
Keyword : Entertainment value.
http://www.jinx.com/scripts/details.asp?affid=-1&p roductID=456
So you suggest that the Hollywood copyright police sit around on bittorrent hosting their own "stolen" movies, or masquerading as torrent peers, waiting so that you'd connect to them and that they'd record your IP?
Uh... maybe I'm missing something.
Does it ever end or have we just turned into a lawsuit happy world?
Make that a "lawsuit happy" bunch of developed nations. We don't find much of this happening in India.
You could download the torrents from a public computer (no login) at your school/library, and then actually perform the downloading at home. How can that be traced back to you?
Agreed. Downloading a torrent file isn't proof that you actually used it. Maybe you're just some strange strange guy who likes to collect .torrent files.
Maybe you're mirroring the website for your friends in China who may not have direct access to it.
Maybe you're .. er .. out of ideas.
Why is this called "research"? How is this scholarly in any way?
Shouldn't this just be called "trying out neat new things to do with Linux" ?
Gosh!
Now all that aside, what's so cool about it? If I had a team of people smart enough to do something like this, I'd rather have that intellectual capacity directed at something more 'useful'. I'm not a CS person so I lack examples, but I'm sure people can come up with some.
How do they know this? How do they gather such demographical information? Kinda weird since I usually consider my online activities quite gender free... especially if I'm not filling any forms.