My employer (a government funded research institute) has the general rule that half of the staff's internet costs are refunded, up to a certain maximum (provided you promise that you sometimes use it for work).
I think this is a fair deal, since on one side I really do use it for work, on the other side I don't expect my boss to pay for private use.
No other algorithm can come up with a design for optical fibres that are cheap to make and transmit data at a high rate, Manos said.
How can anyone make a claim like this? Just the fact that one can't think of any other algorithm doesn't mean no such algorithm exists. For many problems that can be solved by genetic algorithms, other (problem-specific) algorithms exists (or may exists) that are way more efficient. The nice thing about genetic algorithms is that it is a standard tool that often works, not that it is an exceptionally smart way of doing things.
Back in the old days, when groups like the Future Crew still ruled, the demo-scene was way more interesting. Making stunning effects is much more of a challenge when the hardware you're working on is limited. These guys used to create a 3D-engine from scratch in 64kb, as there was no DirectX. For me, the massive computing/graphics power we have today has taken away all the fun.
"Beyond Megapixels - Part I,..., Part XXXII have all been posted here at Slashdot, and now it is my pleasure to bring to you Beyond Megapixels - Part XXXIII!!!. This is almost the final part of this series of editorial articles examining current digital photography hardware. Stay tuned as parts XXXIV and up will certainly all be granted a slashdot post too.
"The plan is to run the program on a zillion machines for a month and combine the results. All you have to do is run it and when the deadline arrives, email me a compressed file of the cache directory. So email me here and I'll send you the zip file. The deadline will be June 1st 2004."
I wonder if this works better than pictures of naked women...
just $9.99 a year. This is a savings of over 70% compared to paying annually
This does not even come near the truth. If one dollar that you're paying now is used in a hundred
years, you would actually have $131 when taking
interest into account (assuming 5% each year).
Although this seems to be a promising field, I don't see yet how it can help people that are completely paralysed. The user has to concentrate on certain
external images. This means that the user must still be able to move his eyes. For those people that can still move their eyes, better alternatives involving very precise eye-movement sensors exist.
I would be much more impressed if they could tell from my brainwaves wether I am thinking of a car or a dog.
It intrigues me that although many people have a high-speed internet connection nowadays, VoIP does not seem to have taken off on that market in any significant way. Any insights on why that is so?
Numerous sources have confirmed the keynote will be... Sources said Jobs will unveil... Sources anticipate that the suite's core applications... Sources wouldn't rule out other software announcements... In addition, sources point to developments... While sources confirmed the announcements Sources have confirmed there will be no new CPU announcements...
What is the open-source-minded geek supposed to think of this?
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I agree that this is the most likely explanation,
but I strongly disagree that the other one
(including no hardware besides the PC) is wrong:
A PC IS a variety of hardware. It isn't a hardware component, but consists of a variety of components.
none besides the PC?
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All of them require a PC running Linux (the authors use and recommend Red Hat Linux 9, since that's the environment where the projects have been tested) and a variety of hardware (including none besides the PC)
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11. Temperature Monitor: here a temperature sensor kit from DigiTemp needs to be purchased and connected to the telephone cable, which, in turn, will connect to the parallel port.
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13....The authors use a LynX-PORT board, a fairly expensive, but according to the authors, quite useful I/O board that could be re-used for all sorts of projects.
Sure, a temperature sensor and an expensive LynX-PORT board come with every standard PC these days!
...and they must protect Beagle for up to 12 bounces
How long before we can expect such technology in our cars? Such cars would just bounce back in a collision. Not to mention the potentials for
bouncing airplanes!
I don't see how you can make the statement that MySQL is 6 times better than the proprietary code from the facts that the defect densities are 0.09 and 0.54 per 1000 lines respectively.
This just looks like some quasi-scientific statement, trying to express things as a number that really don't fit such a representation.
For example, as the number of defects decreases, it becomes increasingly more difficult to find the ones that are left. And is code that contains no bugs at all infinitely much better than code that contains a single bug which hardly ever occurs?
Couldn't it just be the case that the internet
browser's homepage was still set to an address on Wells Fargo's intranet? The wrong http request
would be easy to find.
Plenty of protocols have been suggested that would all kill spam if used BY EVERYONE. It seems to me that the problem here is not the protocol at all.
IPv6 was designed quite some time ago now. Has everyone adopted it? Nope. The problem is that email has become so pervasive that it has become very difficult to change the standard.
Unless several main organisations and companies join forces to introduce a new way of sending mail with massive support, it is not going to happen.
Yet another paper about yet another protocol is not going to change that.
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The main post does not contain a direct link to the project webpage: http://fastra.ua.ac.be/, which contains a lot more info and explanations.
I think this is a fair deal, since on one side I really do use it for work, on the other side I don't expect my boss to pay for private use.
Who cares about instant on? Using this advanced operating system called Linux my PC never needs a reboot.
On the other hand, Windows users are gonna love this feature.
How can anyone make a claim like this? Just the fact that one can't think of any other algorithm doesn't mean no such algorithm exists. For many problems that can be solved by genetic algorithms, other (problem-specific) algorithms exists (or may exists) that are way more efficient. The nice thing about genetic algorithms is that it is a standard tool that often works, not that it is an exceptionally smart way of doing things.
Back in the old days, when groups like the Future Crew still ruled, the demo-scene was way more interesting. Making stunning effects is much more of a challenge when the hardware you're working on is limited. These guys used to create a 3D-engine from scratch in 64kb, as there was no DirectX. For me, the massive computing/graphics power we have today has taken away all the fun.
"Beyond Megapixels - Part I, ..., Part XXXII have all been posted here at Slashdot, and now it is my pleasure to bring to you Beyond Megapixels - Part XXXIII!!!. This is almost the final part of this series of editorial articles examining current digital photography hardware. Stay tuned as parts XXXIV and up will certainly all be granted a slashdot post too.
"The plan is to run the program on a zillion machines for a month and combine the results. All you have to do is run it and when the deadline arrives, email me a compressed file of the cache directory. So email me here and I'll send you the zip file. The deadline will be June 1st 2004."
I wonder if this works better than pictures of naked women...
This does not even come near the truth. If one dollar that you're paying now is used in a hundred years, you would actually have $131 when taking interest into account (assuming 5% each year).
What a loss!
I would be much more impressed if they could tell from my brainwaves wether I am thinking of a car or a dog.
It intrigues me that although many people have a high-speed internet connection nowadays, VoIP does not seem to have taken off on that market in any significant way. Any insights on why that is so?
Numerous sources have confirmed the keynote will be...
Sources said Jobs will unveil...
Sources anticipate that the suite's core applications...
Sources wouldn't rule out other software announcements...
In addition, sources point to developments...
While sources confirmed the announcements
Sources have confirmed there will be no new CPU announcements...
What is the open-source-minded geek supposed to think of this?
I agree that this is the most likely explanation, but I strongly disagree that the other one (including no hardware besides the PC) is wrong: A PC IS a variety of hardware. It isn't a hardware component, but consists of a variety of components.
11. Temperature Monitor: here a temperature sensor kit from DigiTemp needs to be purchased and connected to the telephone cable, which, in turn, will connect to the parallel port.
13. ...The authors use a LynX-PORT board, a fairly expensive, but according to the authors, quite useful I/O board that could be re-used for all sorts of projects.
Sure, a temperature sensor and an expensive LynX-PORT board come with every standard PC these days!
In the Netherlands, the Wilhelm is actually even the national hymne.
Sounds like this Bollywood thing bas a buge and beroic future abead.
How long before we can expect such technology in our cars? Such cars would just bounce back in a collision. Not to mention the potentials for bouncing airplanes!
This just looks like some quasi-scientific statement, trying to express things as a number that really don't fit such a representation. For example, as the number of defects decreases, it becomes increasingly more difficult to find the ones that are left. And is code that contains no bugs at all infinitely much better than code that contains a single bug which hardly ever occurs?
Where is the self-destruct button?
Couldn't it just be the case that the internet browser's homepage was still set to an address on Wells Fargo's intranet? The wrong http request would be easy to find.
The next logical step in this direction would be the challenge of building a supercomputer with the size of a cell-phone. Go IBM!
Nice to know that it is the fastest Linux supercomputer, but how does this compare to the other top-ranked supercomputers in the world?
Unless several main organisations and companies join forces to introduce a new way of sending mail with massive support, it is not going to happen. Yet another paper about yet another protocol is not going to change that.
Does this mean we will get M$ commenting on every /. post concerning them?
Well, because it has OpenOffice installed, perhaps?
Just make sure you live near the coast so you can flip to the other side when that happens.