Actually, I thought the IEEE's take on this (the Open Source Warfare article) was more insightful
It's just Iraqi insurgent geeks defeating US Army geeks. One concept of network oriented warfare defeating other concept of network oriented warfare in some specific situation.
He is calling Hizbollah opeartives (Israel opponent in the 2006 Lebanon War) "primitive foe". That is as far from the trough as it could be. In fact Hizbollah won this war because it was more technically and organizationally sophisticated than IDF in ground war.
According to prisoners each Hizbollah anti-tank missile operator launched more than dozen missiles during the training. The Israel Army representative told that IDF "could only dream" about such level of training. BTW cheapest ATGM cost around 5k $. But Hizbollah also used some 9M133 Kornet (60k $ a pop). And Hizbollah had a lot of ATGM operators, so many that ATGM were used often against Israel infantry. Hizbollah operatives were well coordinated, using mobile phones and radio, well supplied and had had a network of concealed concrete bunkers, with communication lines, optic and stores.
It's plain stupid to call combatant capable of successful launch of modern anti-ship missile "primitive foe".
How anyone could find this post "interesting" boggle my mind. Author have no clue what he/she/it is talking about. GRU is not KGB now. GRU is Soviet/Russian military intelligence. It's was created in 1918. Modern name for KGB is FSB. Of cause you can not expect much from the person whose the only source of knowledge about modern Russia is Anatoliy Golitsyn, pal of Jeffrey Nyquist, who think that Free Democracies of the West Should Nuke Russia.
I think it's not specific to China, but to many non-developed or semi-developed countries. In Israel outside connection for average home broadband also 10k/s at best. A lot worse usually.
I'm definitely not Symbian/WM fan, but Symbian/WM SDK allow native C++ applications, even though with digital signing or with limited capabilities (for Symbian). Android SDK is pure Java. And Java is slow on the cell phones. That mean no complex games is possible to develop with Android OS - no sophisticated AI, no game physics, no massive multiagent systems. Also - no image processing and voice processing application. OpenGL ES libaray API exists but still only for Java app. That is pretty limited IMO. For business application Java is enough probably, but as mobile entertainment development environment Android SDK looks deficient.
It's not designed by T-mobile of cause (if it was sarcasm on the part of TFA, it was too veilded IMO) It was designed by HTC. It is in fact HTC Juno. As the HTC is a part of Google led Open Handset Alliance may be their next phones would fare better.
They didn't manage to get acceptable stability of the camera tracking. The superimposed models are wobbling on the video backgound. Usually biggest problem of wearable/mobile AR is due to insufficient CPU power of the handheld, which do tracking. Complete 3d image tracking is quite computationally expensive. But here they have big laptop strapped to back, and still get tracking quality of handheld. With powerful laptop they could get a lot of feature points extracted or have image otherwise stabilized in real time.
and Stalin was particularly determined to make Finland pay for resistance during the Winter War.
He was not. He already got most of what he want in Winter War - military base at Hanko (to control Gulf of Finland) and safety area north of Leningrad. The neutral Finland would be extremely convenient both for Stalin and later Soviet rulers as a buffer state. And after the war began Soviet Union had his hand full with Germans, and could not possible be a threat to would be neutral Finland. The only reason Finland enter the war was desire to return lost territory and hope of the Greater Finland - nazi promised to Finland part of the Russian Arctic north, from Archangelsk to Ural. It was not a Soviet threat that started Continuation War.
Will the gPhone be substantially better than Symbian etc?
If Android OS permit user to install not signed applications it will win hands down. Symbian OS require manufacturer approval for some capabilities. Small, freeware and hobby developers will flock to Android OS in that case.
What, because being banned from Wikipedia edits is the best criteria for judging someone's scientific credentials?
By itself no, however his wiki entry create strong suspicion of crackpottery:
-graduate without completing a degree
-author of alternative cosmology theory denying Big Bang
-denial of quasar as blackholes
-life-long political activist
I have impression that digg users generally more tolerant of Vista (or even pro-Vista) than slashdotters. I'm wondering if what I've seen just random fluctuation or the reason is that/. and digg have different demographics. The diggers are predominantly Windows users, but that still not explain why they prefer Vista to XP.
They apply reverse twirl, probably deconvolution, and some enhancement filters until they got something which looks like a picture of a man. Or they let artist to enhance the resulting image until it looks like a man. But why should anyone believe that the resulting picture is of the same man that was before the image was scrambled ? The only way to prove validity of the method it is to disclose it and let everyone to check it on several dozens of images.
Burma in the information blackout now. Phone and data lines cut by military. The way out of this situation - Packet radio. It should get more attention from geek community. It should become information route into closed countries like Burma and North Korea, backup connection in cases of coup d'eta, wars and natural disasters.
What could be done:
Cheap, easy to use equipment sold over the net and shipped all over the globe
Comprehensible instructions how to build it from generally available components
FOSS projects - user-friendly software for packet radio
Such technology can really kill dictatorship.
Well, I did develop for Symbian and he is mostly correct. Certification and signing is nightmare. Even if developer is not using any capabilities and can self-sign application it still present some problems, due to poor documentation - some not quite necessary API call included by mistake can prevent application from installation. If any non-trivial capabilities are used freeware development (outside of promotional demo for big companies) becoming practically impossible. Signing freeware application can take months. Or freeware application could be ignored by test house without any explanations at all. There will be some changes soon. Free developer certificates to be abolished soon. Only TC Center certificates (cost 200 euro per year) will be accepted, valid only for like 100 phones, and process of getting them is not fast anyway.
Original poster talked about*raytracers* and you are talking about polygon-rendering cards. And I can affirm that raytracers are in fact embarrassingly parallel. I took part of the project for clustered raytracer. It was a cluster of dual CPU SMP PC. After a lot of hard work and quite sophisticated synchronization algorithm we did in fact achieved linear scalability and tested it up two four boxes. Each PC had identical database, so there weren't any large block of memory moving between them. Pity the project was dumped for business reason - GPUs were so damn cheap and easy to code.
They would be ready and have clothes with copper wire mesh sewn in, mesh or tin foil masks and hats.
Device would work perfectly though against unsuspecting crowd, prisoners or just whoever annoy police.
It is still liable to disassembly attack.
If elliptic curve used is sect233r1, as poster assume, that could be useful information for disassembly. If wii use OpenSSL that fact could be even more useful.
With one-meter-square conducting plates in vacuum with meter distance between them plates it is something on the order of magnitude 1^^-30 kg. That is one-billionth of one-billionth of one-billionth gram.
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Something not good going with slashdot choice of article lately.
I'm making living by 3d programming (OpenGL, DX, pattern recognition) and I got the feeling Windows is way too complicated for me too. That is, if I try to change something in it. I got a new shiny Dell XPS M1710. Removed some crap and partitioned the drive. Run chkdsk. Ooops chkdsk caused crush. After couple of hours research found that my old version Nero InCD caused it. Updated Nero. Chkdisk don't crush any more but report error. Repeated chkdsk don't help. I didn't want to reformat everything (and Dell helpfully *don't* provide Windows CD) so I decide to live with it. Oops, CD/DVD driver crushing system now on the CD insertion. Ok, I rerolled to the previous restore point. Now CD work, but all installed applications - VC6,.Net Studio etc. etc. completely screwed - all exe files disappears. I had to reinstall everything. All this took something like like one and half working days. And all this just because I wanted to have disk D:. You may say I'm stupid, or I did everything wrong but that is exactly my point - Windows is a way complicated for me. BTW most helpful tool was SystemRescueCD (Gentoo Linux) which was quite easy to use after reading readme.
I just don't get how a dimension has a size/scale. If I go from 2 dimensions to 3 the added dimension is orthogonal to the first two. The axes of the new dimension (as with the first 2) go to infinities in either direction creating a volume that is unbounded.
The key word here is unbounded.
The extra dimensions are "compactified". That mean they are bounded.
Example of spaces with bounded dimension are the circle or sphera. They both have maximum diameter - that mean the distance between the points of them can not be bigged than some fixed length. That is the "scale" of dimension. In the string theory where are only three space dimensions which are unbounded - "our" space dimensions. The rest are bounded and have scale.
To visualise how could be both bounded and unbounded dimensions imagine cylinder of infinite length. It have one unbounded dimension - length and one bounded - circumference. So in the string theory extra dimensions are "curled" around our three dimensions.
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In United States only terrorist suspects cross the border.
It didn't. You mistook lebanese palestinian camps militia for Hizbollah.
He is calling Hizbollah opeartives (Israel opponent in the 2006 Lebanon War) "primitive foe". That is as far from the trough as it could be. In fact Hizbollah won this war because it was more technically and organizationally sophisticated than IDF in ground war.
According to prisoners each Hizbollah anti-tank missile operator launched more than dozen missiles during the training. The Israel Army representative told that IDF "could only dream" about such level of training. BTW cheapest ATGM cost around 5k $. But Hizbollah also used some 9M133 Kornet (60k $ a pop). And Hizbollah had a lot of ATGM operators, so many that ATGM were used often against Israel infantry. Hizbollah operatives were well coordinated, using mobile phones and radio, well supplied and had had a network of concealed concrete bunkers, with communication lines, optic and stores.
It's plain stupid to call combatant capable of successful launch of modern anti-ship missile "primitive foe".
How anyone could find this post "interesting" boggle my mind. Author have no clue what he/she/it is talking about. GRU is not KGB now. GRU is Soviet/Russian military intelligence. It's was created in 1918. Modern name for KGB is FSB. Of cause you can not expect much from the person whose the only source of knowledge about modern Russia is Anatoliy Golitsyn, pal of Jeffrey Nyquist, who think that Free Democracies of the West Should Nuke Russia.
I think it's not specific to China, but to many non-developed or semi-developed countries. In Israel outside connection for average home broadband also 10k/s at best. A lot worse usually.
I'm definitely not Symbian/WM fan, but Symbian/WM SDK allow native C++ applications, even though with digital signing or with limited capabilities (for Symbian). Android SDK is pure Java. And Java is slow on the cell phones. That mean no complex games is possible to develop with Android OS - no sophisticated AI, no game physics, no massive multiagent systems. Also - no image processing and voice processing application. OpenGL ES libaray API exists but still only for Java app. That is pretty limited IMO. For business application Java is enough probably, but as mobile entertainment development environment Android SDK looks deficient.
It's not designed by T-mobile of cause (if it was sarcasm on the part of TFA, it was too veilded IMO) It was designed by HTC. It is in fact HTC Juno. As the HTC is a part of Google led Open Handset Alliance may be their next phones would fare better.
They didn't manage to get acceptable stability of the camera tracking. The superimposed models are wobbling on the video backgound. Usually biggest problem of wearable/mobile AR is due to insufficient CPU power of the handheld, which do tracking. Complete 3d image tracking is quite computationally expensive. But here they have big laptop strapped to back, and still get tracking quality of handheld. With powerful laptop they could get a lot of feature points extracted or have image otherwise stabilized in real time.
Like jumping around the scene shouting "Press release!", "Press release!". Just call press release "press release" is affront.
If Android OS permit user to install not signed applications it will win hands down. Symbian OS require manufacturer approval for some capabilities. Small, freeware and hobby developers will flock to Android OS in that case.
By itself no, however his wiki entry create strong suspicion of crackpottery:
-graduate without completing a degree
-author of alternative cosmology theory denying Big Bang
-denial of quasar as blackholes
-life-long political activist
You mean Pornograph ?
I have impression that digg users generally more tolerant of Vista (or even pro-Vista) than slashdotters. I'm wondering if what I've seen just random fluctuation or the reason is that /. and digg have different demographics. The diggers are predominantly Windows users, but that still not explain why they prefer Vista to XP.
They apply reverse twirl, probably deconvolution, and some enhancement filters until they got something which looks like a picture of a man. Or they let artist to enhance the resulting image until it looks like a man. But why should anyone believe that the resulting picture is of the same man that was before the image was scrambled ? The only way to prove validity of the method it is to disclose it and let everyone to check it on several dozens of images.
Burma in the information blackout now. Phone and data lines cut by military. The way out of this situation - Packet radio. It should get more attention from geek community. It should become information route into closed countries like Burma and North Korea, backup connection in cases of coup d'eta, wars and natural disasters.
What could be done:
Cheap, easy to use equipment sold over the net and shipped all over the globe
Comprehensible instructions how to build it from generally available components
FOSS projects - user-friendly software for packet radio
Such technology can really kill dictatorship.
Well, I did develop for Symbian and he is mostly correct. Certification and signing is nightmare. Even if developer is not using any capabilities and can self-sign application it still present some problems, due to poor documentation - some not quite necessary API call included by mistake can prevent application from installation. If any non-trivial capabilities are used freeware development (outside of promotional demo for big companies) becoming practically impossible. Signing freeware application can take months. Or freeware application could be ignored by test house without any explanations at all. There will be some changes soon. Free developer certificates to be abolished soon. Only TC Center certificates (cost 200 euro per year) will be accepted, valid only for like 100 phones, and process of getting them is not fast anyway.
Original poster talked about*raytracers* and you are talking about polygon-rendering cards. And I can affirm that raytracers are in fact embarrassingly parallel. I took part of the project for clustered raytracer. It was a cluster of dual CPU SMP PC. After a lot of hard work and quite sophisticated synchronization algorithm we did in fact achieved linear scalability and tested it up two four boxes. Each PC had identical database, so there weren't any large block of memory moving between them. Pity the project was dumped for business reason - GPUs were so damn cheap and easy to code.
They would be ready and have clothes with copper wire mesh sewn in, mesh or tin foil masks and hats. Device would work perfectly though against unsuspecting crowd, prisoners or just whoever annoy police.
It is still liable to disassembly attack. If elliptic curve used is sect233r1, as poster assume, that could be useful information for disassembly. If wii use OpenSSL that fact could be even more useful.
With one-meter-square conducting plates in vacuum with meter distance between them plates it is something on the order of magnitude 1^^-30 kg. That is one-billionth of one-billionth of one-billionth gram.
Something not good going with slashdot choice of article lately.
I'm making living by 3d programming (OpenGL, DX, pattern recognition) and I got the feeling Windows is way too complicated for me too. That is, if I try to change something in it. I got a new shiny Dell XPS M1710. Removed some crap and partitioned the drive. Run chkdsk. Ooops chkdsk caused crush. After couple of hours research found that my old version Nero InCD caused it. Updated Nero. Chkdisk don't crush any more but report error. Repeated chkdsk don't help. I didn't want to reformat everything (and Dell helpfully *don't* provide Windows CD) so I decide to live with it. Oops, CD/DVD driver crushing system now on the CD insertion. Ok, I rerolled to the previous restore point. Now CD work, but all installed applications - VC6, .Net Studio etc. etc. completely screwed - all exe files disappears. I had to reinstall everything. All this took something like like one and half working days. And all this just because I wanted to have disk D:. You may say I'm stupid, or I did everything wrong but that is exactly my point - Windows is a way complicated for me. BTW most helpful tool was SystemRescueCD (Gentoo Linux) which was quite easy to use after reading readme.
The key word here is unbounded.
The extra dimensions are "compactified". That mean they are bounded.
Example of spaces with bounded dimension are the circle or sphera. They both have maximum diameter - that mean the distance between the points of them can not be bigged than some fixed length. That is the "scale" of dimension. In the string theory where are only three space dimensions which are unbounded - "our" space dimensions. The rest are bounded and have scale.
To visualise how could be both bounded and unbounded dimensions imagine cylinder of infinite length. It have one unbounded dimension - length and one bounded - circumference. So in the string theory extra dimensions are "curled" around our three dimensions.