Are you sure the folder isn't full of receipts and calculations on exactly how much it cost him to raise you for 18 years? I'd be worried about going over there. One of these days he may just present you with a hefty bill and say "Fix it or else..."
I hate it when people give that poor excuse, "do you know how much I spent to raise you?"
Well, do you realize how much more your kids will have to spend to raise their kids? You may have had to spend, oh $100,000 on your son, but due to inflation, he'll have to spend $150,000+ on EACH of his kids.
And did you ever pay back your parents for raising you? When grams and gramps get their money, I'll think about giving you yours.
Homer Simpson 94 Evergreen Terrace Springfield, OR 97477
BTW: The Simpsons live within a few hours of the water, don't live on the east coast ("Scorpio" said so), are surrounded by evergreens, but aren't hilly. So they must live in Oregon. Possibly Washington, but most likely Oregon. (plus, springfield oregon is right along I-5, a major freeway.)
Does anyone know anyone who ever bought one of those X10 cameras?
My wife and I bought one of their wireless kits, with 4 cameras. We set them up in the barn to monitor the goats. Works great! When it gets to kidding season, we just leave the lights on in there at night, and monitor them on a spare TV. (we use florescent lighting, doesn't cost much)
We put two of the cameras outside, to watch the field for dogs and coyotes. Never did see any scantly clad women like the pop-ups promised.
In my defense though, we bought them after googling for "wireless video camera", not after looking at a pop-up. (I saw the pop-ups, but never paid attention to what they were about)
Whomever modded me as a troll should maybe GET A CLUE.
Troll.
I'm kidding! I've been modded a troll before for non-troll remarks. Just learn to accept that the trolls eventually get mod points and will mod you a troll because they don't agree with you.
At the risk of getting modded redundant, the PS3 will only ship with a blu-ray drive. Movie manufacturers don't have much incentive producing HD-DVDs when most of the players on the market are either dual format, or blu-ray only.
That show was a steaming pile of crap back when my step-brother use to watch it on TV. There's no way they're going to make it any better. I'd rather watch Britney try to sing the blues. (If somebody provides a link of Britney singing the blues, I'm deleting my slashdot account)
My (admitedly simplistic) understanding is you could get the 3D persepective simply by fixing two cameras at approximately the same separation as human eyes. It can't be that hard to sync the frames, especially with digital technology.
That was my first thought too. But then I remembered that our eyes are only a few inches apart and high quality camera lenses are much wider. They may be able to pull it off using mirrors and lenses.
I've taken 3D pics before by just moving the camera a short distance. If you move it too far, the pics will give you a headache. I use the cross-eyed technique to view the pics, so I just need both pics on the screen at the same time. It works, but I wouldn't want to play a game that way.... or do I?...
irst off, we don't see in 3-D, we see in 2*2-D. We've had 3-D art for years, it's called "sculpture." The only difference between so-called "3-D" and traditional 2-D is parallax, and there are other ways to simulate depth from a static perspective, many of which are far more meaningful.
There are many times I DEEPLY desired parallax perspective for video games. I can't tell you the number of times I've died just because I can't tell how far away an object is in the game. Especially when flying or jumping where I can't use my shadow to judge my position.
Video games will be the first to implement 3D. There's no need to change the game's code much, if at all, and gamers usually enjoy extra hardware that improves their gaming experience.
Porn industry will be next. Then maybe movies once the technology is more widespread.
Good point, but if you were not guilty, why would you care what they were looking at?
Because that's where you keep all the digital photos you took of your wife naked as well as mpegs of your bedroom fun?
Because you have $1,000,000,000 worth of illegal MP3s on here, and it's cheaper to just spend the 90 days in jail then get caught by the RIAA.
Because you're a stubborn jackass and don't think you should need to give away your privacy.
The point is, that the police getting to your data is certainly not inevitable.
True! One simple method is to use a randomly generated key file, store a few backups where no one will find them, and keep the original on you at all times. (mini-CD) If the cops are on your tail, just break the copy you have with you.
Server/command line code is trivial to make portable compared to GUI applications.
Pieterh already answered you on this, but I'll put in my 2 cents too.
I too write cross platform code, between Windows, Linux, and OSX. For each OS, I have a "shell" program, along with a "gcross" (graphics cross-platform) class, which standardizes the graphics. The shell calls an "app" class, which in turn uses the "gcross" class for the GUI. My app class contains all the code for the application. I've written many graphic intense programs in this, and they run as quickly as any other equivalent program, even faster in many cases. (My fractal program runs faster then most others I've found)
So for whatever system I'm currently programming on, I only need to copy my "app.c" and "app.h" files, as well as any other custom files and recompile with the different shell programs.
I would. If it was a PS3. I don't currently have a DVR, but I want one. And I want a PS3 when they come out. (I currently have a PS2) To have a DVR and a game station together, that's really nice. Plus it burns DVDs. $800 is about the price of the individual components.
Yes it is, who likes this kind of limitations? This is not a technology limitation it's a business decission to curb your freedom. I would never purchase this kind of device.
I was at Wall-Mart the other day and they had a nice lineup of MP3 players on display. About 50% where 512 Meg, 25% 128 Meg, and 25% 1 Gig or more. I was quite surprised there were still so many players with so little memory. Although I wouldn't buy a player that small, it seems many others would. So I doubt any company is trying to "curb your freedom".
BTW: I don't own a cellphone or an iPod, but I do want a 60Gig video iPod someday. (even if I only have 3.5 Gig of music right now)
what's the 'heavy weapons' cut off at the moment? A 9mm pistol?... Surely to fight off a speedboat you don't need 'heavy' weapons per se, you just need a lot of lighter weapons
Good idea. When a pirate shows up, they should have compartments open up loaded with 9mm handguns. Everyone grabs one and starts shooting at the boat.
Even a.22 would be dangerous if you have enough coming at you. (or if you ever decide to get out of your armored boat)
IAAL. Turning over documents is not "testimonial" in a way that is protected by the 5th amendment. In a similar vein, turning over an encryption key is not testimony that, itself, is used to convict you - it's only about access to the data.
So when they ask where you buried the bodies, you have to say "in the basement" since that's not testimony, but finding the bodies is?
Two things could be done with this complex. Turn it into a museum, say The Museum of the Apocalypse. Include a amusement park, a bar, a cannabis 'chill center', a dance hall for raves, etc...
Or sell it to modern billionaires who are more important than the British Prime Minister.
Or... you could put a house on top of the main entrance and have your mom live in the house while you live in the "basement".
Geez, if you're going to post on/. you need to think more geeky.
In that book, Penrose makes a rather detailed argument for the fact that the essence of human-ness, whatever that is (consciousness, creativity, free will, etc...), the thing that we are desperately trying and failing to create with strong-AI efforts (AI that *really* can operate on a human level, not the stuff that gets marketed as "AI"), depends on some quantum effects in the brain.
So, he's saying there's something going on at a sub-neural level in the brain that effects our decisions and creativity in slight ways. And that this phenomenon only happens in human brains. (Why only human?)
My point is not the availability of email and networks in general but the computing power that is so much more than required for normal office applications.
I still have my MS Word 4.0 for my Mac Plus. It was on a single sided disk with enough room to store documents. On my plus, at about 8Mhz, Word opened about as fast as the 2000 suite opens on my work computer, which is about 1Ghz. Trust me, office applications will bloat in direct proportion to the speed of your computer.
In 2050, they'll have all these new features though! Like spell and grammar checking all the documents on your HD every time you hit a key. (all loaded and held in RAM, of course) Plus, lots and lots of fancy, animated 3D graphics and dolby 5.1 surround sound for the sound effects. Every time you hit a key, you'll hear a sonar ping wiz past you in your office. (plus a floating, 3D, ray-traced version of the letter you hit rotating at the center of your screen) Even when you turn off the options, they'll still be generated by the CPU, just in case you turn them back on in the middle of an animation or sound playing.
The article says that the brain fires at 1000 times a second, but practice shows that we can only process data at 30 pieces of data per second. Plus they forgot that only 10% of our brain is in use at any one time. To taking that into account, you can multiply their estimate by.003.
120,000,000 cpus *.003 = 360,000 cpus. (only 5 times the size of the one in the original article, so it could simulate a human brain at 20% speed)
But all of that is irrelevant anyways. CPU power isn't the problem. It's knowledge of how the brain works. A honey bee's brain only has 960,000 neurons. Yet they search for food, remember where their home is, they fly, walk, eat, reproduce, and perhaps most importantly, they communicate. (through dance)
960,000 neurons, at 30 "frames per second" and 100% brain use is only 28 million values per second, and less then 4 Megs of RAM. Even if you go with their number of 1000 "frames per second", it's still only 960 million values per second. Well within the processing power of a single computer. That's assuming a neuron can be represented by a single 32 bit integer.
Has anyone simulated a bee's brain yet? No? Well why not? They have complex behavior, they're even able to communicate about how much food they found, and directions on how to get there. (including distances!) No, the real problem is that no one know how the brain actually works. This IBM cluster can simulate an entire hive of honey bees, but they just don't know how. Until then, they'll never simulate a human brain.
There are certain tasks that are easy to split into individual threads. Just about anything graphical deals with single pixels at a time, and complex 3D simulations deal with voxels. A simple 100x100x100 simulation would use 1,000,000 voxels. Each processor would handle a handful of voxels, and communicate with computers simulating joining voxel groups.
Just some more stats: for a 1024^3 voxel cube, with 64K processors, each processor deals with 16K voxels. 16K^3 voxel cube: 64M voxels per processor. (A few Gigs of ram each should be enough)
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I hate it when people give that poor excuse, "do you know how much I spent to raise you?"
Well, do you realize how much more your kids will have to spend to raise their kids? You may have had to spend, oh $100,000 on your son, but due to inflation, he'll have to spend $150,000+ on EACH of his kids.
And did you ever pay back your parents for raising you? When grams and gramps get their money, I'll think about giving you yours.
Or you could use:
Homer Simpson
94 Evergreen Terrace
Springfield, OR 97477
BTW: The Simpsons live within a few hours of the water, don't live on the east coast ("Scorpio" said so), are surrounded by evergreens, but aren't hilly. So they must live in Oregon. Possibly Washington, but most likely Oregon. (plus, springfield oregon is right along I-5, a major freeway.)
Take away it's collection of circuit diagrams (read: computer porn) and see if it throws a fit.
My wife and I bought one of their wireless kits, with 4 cameras. We set them up in the barn to monitor the goats. Works great! When it gets to kidding season, we just leave the lights on in there at night, and monitor them on a spare TV. (we use florescent lighting, doesn't cost much)
We put two of the cameras outside, to watch the field for dogs and coyotes. Never did see any scantly clad women like the pop-ups promised.
In my defense though, we bought them after googling for "wireless video camera", not after looking at a pop-up. (I saw the pop-ups, but never paid attention to what they were about)
They chose it because it's one of those movies that's better seen then heard.
My wife's deaf, but she still likes to go the the theater every once in a while. Just goes to show how important plot is in today's movies.
Funny thing, she liked Starwars EP1 better BEFORE she saw it captioned.
"Is the caption messed up, or is Jar-Jar retarded?"
Troll.
I'm kidding! I've been modded a troll before for non-troll remarks. Just learn to accept that the trolls eventually get mod points and will mod you a troll because they don't agree with you.
The problem is, it translates into:
"Have sex with dirt or I'll have oral sex with your head which is having sex with nothing"
He might think you're coming onto him.
English: We are here to save you!
Translation: We are here to collect you!
Seems to work fine to me!
At the risk of getting modded redundant, the PS3 will only ship with a blu-ray drive. Movie manufacturers don't have much incentive producing HD-DVDs when most of the players on the market are either dual format, or blu-ray only.
Oh for the love of sanity, PLEASE, NO!
That show was a steaming pile of crap back when my step-brother use to watch it on TV. There's no way they're going to make it any better. I'd rather watch Britney try to sing the blues. (If somebody provides a link of Britney singing the blues, I'm deleting my slashdot account)
That was my first thought too. But then I remembered that our eyes are only a few inches apart and high quality camera lenses are much wider. They may be able to pull it off using mirrors and lenses.
I've taken 3D pics before by just moving the camera a short distance. If you move it too far, the pics will give you a headache. I use the cross-eyed technique to view the pics, so I just need both pics on the screen at the same time. It works, but I wouldn't want to play a game that way.
There are many times I DEEPLY desired parallax perspective for video games. I can't tell you the number of times I've died just because I can't tell how far away an object is in the game. Especially when flying or jumping where I can't use my shadow to judge my position.
Video games will be the first to implement 3D. There's no need to change the game's code much, if at all, and gamers usually enjoy extra hardware that improves their gaming experience.
Porn industry will be next. Then maybe movies once the technology is more widespread.
Because that's where you keep all the digital photos you took of your wife naked as well as mpegs of your bedroom fun?
Because you have $1,000,000,000 worth of illegal MP3s on here, and it's cheaper to just spend the 90 days in jail then get caught by the RIAA.
Because you're a stubborn jackass and don't think you should need to give away your privacy.
True! One simple method is to use a randomly generated key file, store a few backups where no one will find them, and keep the original on you at all times. (mini-CD) If the cops are on your tail, just break the copy you have with you.
Pieterh already answered you on this, but I'll put in my 2 cents too.
I too write cross platform code, between Windows, Linux, and OSX. For each OS, I have a "shell" program, along with a "gcross" (graphics cross-platform) class, which standardizes the graphics. The shell calls an "app" class, which in turn uses the "gcross" class for the GUI. My app class contains all the code for the application. I've written many graphic intense programs in this, and they run as quickly as any other equivalent program, even faster in many cases. (My fractal program runs faster then most others I've found)
So for whatever system I'm currently programming on, I only need to copy my "app.c" and "app.h" files, as well as any other custom files and recompile with the different shell programs.
I would. If it was a PS3. I don't currently have a DVR, but I want one. And I want a PS3 when they come out. (I currently have a PS2) To have a DVR and a game station together, that's really nice. Plus it burns DVDs. $800 is about the price of the individual components.
I was at Wall-Mart the other day and they had a nice lineup of MP3 players on display. About 50% where 512 Meg, 25% 128 Meg, and 25% 1 Gig or more. I was quite surprised there were still so many players with so little memory. Although I wouldn't buy a player that small, it seems many others would. So I doubt any company is trying to "curb your freedom".
BTW: I don't own a cellphone or an iPod, but I do want a 60Gig video iPod someday. (even if I only have 3.5 Gig of music right now)
Good idea. When a pirate shows up, they should have compartments open up loaded with 9mm handguns. Everyone grabs one and starts shooting at the boat.
Even a
*sigh* if only...
So when they ask where you buried the bodies, you have to say "in the basement" since that's not testimony, but finding the bodies is?
So, you own a place called "Sealand", huh? Does that make you "Seaman"?
me: Look over there, it's Seaman!
girls: Oooo, where!?
Sorry, totally ripped from South Park.
Or... you could put a house on top of the main entrance and have your mom live in the house while you live in the "basement".
Geez, if you're going to post on
So, he's saying there's something going on at a sub-neural level in the brain that effects our decisions and creativity in slight ways. And that this phenomenon only happens in human brains. (Why only human?)
Sounds like a soul to me.
I blame global warming. It's also the reason for all these solar flares and earthquakes.
I still have my MS Word 4.0 for my Mac Plus. It was on a single sided disk with enough room to store documents. On my plus, at about 8Mhz, Word opened about as fast as the 2000 suite opens on my work computer, which is about 1Ghz. Trust me, office applications will bloat in direct proportion to the speed of your computer.
In 2050, they'll have all these new features though! Like spell and grammar checking all the documents on your HD every time you hit a key. (all loaded and held in RAM, of course) Plus, lots and lots of fancy, animated 3D graphics and dolby 5.1 surround sound for the sound effects. Every time you hit a key, you'll hear a sonar ping wiz past you in your office. (plus a floating, 3D, ray-traced version of the letter you hit rotating at the center of your screen) Even when you turn off the options, they'll still be generated by the CPU, just in case you turn them back on in the middle of an animation or sound playing.
Don't say it won't happen.
The article says that the brain fires at 1000 times a second, but practice shows that we can only process data at 30 pieces of data per second. Plus they forgot that only 10% of our brain is in use at any one time. To taking that into account, you can multiply their estimate by .003.
.003 = 360,000 cpus. (only 5 times the size of the one in the original article, so it could simulate a human brain at 20% speed)
120,000,000 cpus *
But all of that is irrelevant anyways. CPU power isn't the problem. It's knowledge of how the brain works. A honey bee's brain only has 960,000 neurons. Yet they search for food, remember where their home is, they fly, walk, eat, reproduce, and perhaps most importantly, they communicate. (through dance)
960,000 neurons, at 30 "frames per second" and 100% brain use is only 28 million values per second, and less then 4 Megs of RAM. Even if you go with their number of 1000 "frames per second", it's still only 960 million values per second. Well within the processing power of a single computer. That's assuming a neuron can be represented by a single 32 bit integer.
Has anyone simulated a bee's brain yet? No? Well why not? They have complex behavior, they're even able to communicate about how much food they found, and directions on how to get there. (including distances!) No, the real problem is that no one know how the brain actually works. This IBM cluster can simulate an entire hive of honey bees, but they just don't know how. Until then, they'll never simulate a human brain.
There are certain tasks that are easy to split into individual threads. Just about anything graphical deals with single pixels at a time, and complex 3D simulations deal with voxels. A simple 100x100x100 simulation would use 1,000,000 voxels. Each processor would handle a handful of voxels, and communicate with computers simulating joining voxel groups.
Just some more stats:
for a 1024^3 voxel cube, with 64K processors, each processor deals with 16K voxels.
16K^3 voxel cube: 64M voxels per processor. (A few Gigs of ram each should be enough)