While I appreciate your optimism, I must tell you that the chances of QC taking a giant leap within the next 25 years is quite low.
And "normal" computing will not stand in place waiting while QC catch up. While the Moor law may not hold literally, other way around could appear - massive paralellization, incorporation of some organic elements, rod logic etc. So I'd say while there is a chance to see some complex QC in our lifetime, there is no chance it outperform "normal" computers of the same price.
There were a lot of blaims floating around, some plant officials were balimed of criminal neglgigence and some of covardice. There were some covnvictions too. Most people don't rember who was a covard and who was a hero but it's in human nature always remember worse... so probably as a result some dirt stuck to every survivor by association...
if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease. Without a big market there can be no big budgets. No Doom 4, no Far Cry 2 and no Half-Life 3.
Ironically, auther was not able to come up with even one example wich is not sequel. Indsutry really have problem with creativity, piracy notwithstanding.
What all this trend are converge to is in fact a Gift economy or Potlach economy. In gift economy status of the participant defined not by his material possesion and not by formal administartive standing(that is not how many people he can order around), but how famous he is and how generous to society. That is status defined by reputation, and reputation defined by magnitude of his deeds and benefits of community caused by those deeds. The potlatch itself is an example of a gift economy, whereby the host demonstrates their wealth and prominence through giving away their possessions during huge feast and thus prompt participans to reciprocate when they hold their own potlatch. Host of potlach usually was spending all his material possesion during potlach. The potlach economy was widespread all around the world, among native americans, siberians, steppes of Asia etc. That is it's proven that such economy can exists. BTW mongol tribes of Genghis Khan practiced potlach.
All the the EDGE/GPRS/multimedia messages functions are wasted on the device with 128x128 screen. Browse the internet on the 128kbt/s on the 128x128 screen ? Thanks no. Nokia have some quality smartphones but that not one of them.
The practice of successful innovative games show that it is other way around. Most of successful innovative games weren't designed with winning concept form start, but went through a lot of iterations during which the central concept changed a lot. IIRC first iteration of the Civilization design was a real-time game.
I have to put bread, flour and sugar inside Ziploc bags to keep them out.
You mean put some bread, flour and sugar into bags and place them near the nest every week or else...
The phone is just not suited for games.
The phone is not suited for games which are not designed for phone. If the game is not some twio week knock off from old console title, but specifically designed for phone resolution, controls and an enviroment in which the game played, the game could be a lot of fun. Think about games using camera, bluetooth or games which could be played in two minutes breaks etc. Thre is a lot of possibilites here, but all of them requie a lot of research and hard work, not a very simple designs that can be programmed by a single non-professional programmer
Whenether I whant to check something, is it an complex mathematical question or ancient history or latest movie I first check wikipedia and only after that Google.
I'd bother more about security then stability with WinCE. Keepeng in mind MS security track records (IE anyone ?) and the new communication media like WiFi , Bluetooth, SMS I'm afraid the proliferation of WinCE phones spell disaster. Phone spamming, adware, trojans... Symbian don't use Interner Explorer at least.
Another reason - with 90% shares owned by employees and investors some of them would want cash in. Especially emploees, tought by high-tech bubble burst.
So called "Nokia virus" was a more a sham then a real threat. To spread it would require three time answer "yes" on different security warnings: "Recieve message via Bluetooth...?" Yes
"Install Caribe ?" Yes "Application is not signed , identity can not be veryfied install on your own risk..." Yes. There is no way to bypass thouse messages.
It would be interesting if the affected Bluetooth-enabled Nokia phones mentioned in a previous article a few weeks ago were somehow able to transfer their goods to PocketPCs
No it's not possible, Symbian and PocetPC are not binary compatible.
One could assign a black hole "entropy" based on it's diameter
More precisely black hole entropy (amount of information in the black hole) proportional it's surface area. That is the basis of the famous Holographic principle : all of the information contained in a volume of space can be deduced from the boundary of that volume
Ian M. Banks is pretty good if you don't mind some socialists axe-grinding.
I'd recommend from "Culture series"
_Consider Phlebas_
_Player of Games_ (best IMHO)
_Inversion_
_Looking to Winward_
also
_Aganst Dark Background_
Vinge is an auther of the technological singularity concept. Technological singularity is a situation then pace of technological change increasing to such a degree that our ability to predict its consequences will diminish virtually to zero and a person who doesn't keep pace with it will rapidly find civilization to have become completely incomprehensible. For example transfer to usage of languadge instead of basic system of signal could be considered as a technological singularity for proto-human, though drawn in time.
Rewarding a nation and a people who don't even have the wherewithal to police themselves is not the way to solve the problem. You solve the problem by making this lack of responsibility painful for them.
I don't see how it's painful for government or other desision-makers in thouse countries. The less money people are spending on the foreign products, the more money remain in the country and go to the domestic manufacturers/importers. More tax remain for government. Less contacts with international community also good side effect. Some consumers are suffering, but no one care about them really, and gross majority are tought not to buy internationally and to distrust foreigners. That is not a punishment, that is encouragment for 2d/3d world governments. The right soulution for this problem would be developing secure payment system and pressure guilty government into fighting frauds.
This thing will work only if both GPU have access to each other videomemory. All the other attempts to use paralell GPU failed exactly for that reason(I'm talking about moredn cards here) . It's not clear from the article if it is the case. If it's just two GPU working in paralell, all the old problems of paralell GPU raise - GPU can not divide vertex processing load, only pixels, texture should be loaded into each card sepately, cutting memory bandwidth twice, synchronization etc. However if both GPU share videomemory all this problems go away.
It will not help much probably. Already now big part of spam originated form Indian, Russian, SE Asian free mail accounts. ISP providers probably less scrupulous there. The spam sources will just shift out of US/Europe jurisdiction.
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Another example is the suprestrings theory
While I appreciate your optimism, I must tell you that the chances of QC taking a giant leap within the next 25 years is quite low.
And "normal" computing will not stand in place waiting while QC catch up. While the Moor law may not hold literally, other way around could appear - massive paralellization, incorporation of some organic elements, rod logic etc. So I'd say while there is a chance to see some complex QC in our lifetime, there is no chance it outperform "normal" computers of the same price.
The thing is, intensive use of 3D will probably double the power consumption and halve battery life...
There were a lot of blaims floating around, some plant officials were balimed of criminal neglgigence and some of covardice. There were some covnvictions too. Most people don't rember who was a covard and who was a hero but it's in human nature always remember worse... so probably as a result some dirt stuck to every survivor by association...
if the market keeps shrinking due to the increasing ease of piracy ... then the number and quality of games will almost certainly decrease. Without a big market there can be no big budgets. No Doom 4, no Far Cry 2 and no Half-Life 3.
Ironically, auther was not able to come up with even one example wich is not sequel. Indsutry really have problem with creativity, piracy notwithstanding.
What all this trend are converge to is in fact a Gift economy or Potlach economy. In gift economy status of the participant defined not by his material possesion and not by formal administartive standing(that is not how many people he can order around), but how famous he is and how generous to society. That is status defined by reputation, and reputation defined by magnitude of his deeds and benefits of community caused by those deeds. The potlatch itself is an example of a gift economy, whereby the host demonstrates their wealth and prominence through giving away their possessions during huge feast and thus prompt participans to reciprocate when they hold their own potlatch. Host of potlach usually was spending all his material possesion during potlach. The potlach economy was widespread all around the world, among native americans, siberians, steppes of Asia etc. That is it's proven that such economy can exists. BTW mongol tribes of Genghis Khan practiced potlach.
All the the EDGE/GPRS/multimedia messages functions are wasted on the device with 128x128 screen. Browse the internet on the 128kbt/s on the 128x128 screen ? Thanks no. Nokia have some quality smartphones but that not one of them.
The practice of successful innovative games show that it is other way around. Most of successful innovative games weren't designed with winning concept form start, but went through a lot of iterations during which the central concept changed a lot. IIRC first iteration of the Civilization design was a real-time game.
I have to put bread, flour and sugar inside Ziploc bags to keep them out.
You mean put some bread, flour and sugar into bags and place them near the nest every week or else...
The phone is just not suited for games.
The phone is not suited for games which are not designed for phone. If the game is not some twio week knock off from old console title, but specifically designed for phone resolution, controls and an enviroment in which the game played, the game could be a lot of fun. Think about games using camera, bluetooth or games which could be played in two minutes breaks etc. Thre is a lot of possibilites here, but all of them requie a lot of research and hard work, not a very simple designs that can be programmed by a single non-professional programmer
Makes me wonder if they will ask for the contact info of the receiver/viewer friend also?
Makes me wonder if they will ask for proof if the receiver is a real friend or have other affiliation
Whenether I whant to check something, is it an complex mathematical question or ancient history or latest movie I first check wikipedia and only after that Google.
I'd bother more about security then stability with WinCE. Keepeng in mind MS security track records (IE anyone ?) and the new communication media like WiFi , Bluetooth, SMS I'm afraid the proliferation of WinCE phones spell disaster. Phone spamming, adware, trojans ... Symbian don't use Interner Explorer at least.
Another reason - with 90% shares owned by employees and investors some of them would want cash in. Especially emploees, tought by high-tech bubble burst.
So called "Nokia virus" was a more a sham then a real threat. To spread it would require three time answer "yes" on different security warnings: "Recieve message via Bluetooth...?" Yes "Install Caribe ?" Yes "Application is not signed , identity can not be veryfied install on your own risk..." Yes. There is no way to bypass thouse messages.
It would be interesting if the affected Bluetooth-enabled Nokia phones mentioned in a previous article a few weeks ago were somehow able to transfer their goods to PocketPCs No it's not possible, Symbian and PocetPC are not binary compatible.
35 TFLOPS for a total NASA power. This beast itself is 6 TFLOPS - somewhere in 20's - 30's place
According to top 500 supercomputers 35 TFLOPS would put it ino second place after Earth simulation center - 35-40 TFLOPS
One could assign a black hole "entropy" based on it's diameter
More precisely black hole entropy (amount of information in the black hole) proportional it's surface area. That is the basis of the famous Holographic principle : all of the information contained in a volume of space can be deduced from the boundary of that volume
Can I moderate Bill -1 Flamebait please ?
Ian M. Banks is pretty good if you don't mind some socialists axe-grinding. I'd recommend from "Culture series" _Consider Phlebas_ _Player of Games_ (best IMHO) _Inversion_ _Looking to Winward_ also _Aganst Dark Background_
Vinge is an auther of the technological singularity concept. Technological singularity is a situation then pace of technological change increasing to such a degree that our ability to predict its consequences will diminish virtually to zero and a person who doesn't keep pace with it will rapidly find civilization to have become completely incomprehensible. For example transfer to usage of languadge instead of basic system of signal could be considered as a technological singularity for proto-human, though drawn in time.
Rewarding a nation and a people who don't even have the wherewithal to police themselves is not the way to solve the problem. You solve the problem by making this lack of responsibility painful for them.
I don't see how it's painful for government or other desision-makers in thouse countries. The less money people are spending on the foreign products, the more money remain in the country and go to the domestic manufacturers/importers. More tax remain for government. Less contacts with international community also good side effect. Some consumers are suffering, but no one care about them really, and gross majority are tought not to buy internationally and to distrust foreigners. That is not a punishment, that is encouragment for 2d/3d world governments. The right soulution for this problem would be developing secure payment system and pressure guilty government into fighting frauds.
This thing will work only if both GPU have access to each other videomemory. All the other attempts to use paralell GPU failed exactly for that reason(I'm talking about moredn cards here) . It's not clear from the article if it is the case. If it's just two GPU working in paralell, all the old problems of paralell GPU raise - GPU can not divide vertex processing load, only pixels, texture should be loaded into each card sepately, cutting memory bandwidth twice, synchronization etc. However if both GPU share videomemory all this problems go away.
It will not help much probably. Already now big part of spam originated form Indian, Russian, SE Asian free mail accounts. ISP providers probably less scrupulous there. The spam sources will just shift out of US/Europe jurisdiction.
the XiStrat did the same and more couple of years ago. However it seems the project died qietly because of lack of attention.