Why am I reminded of when I was a kid and repeatedly guessing at questions about who was president before I was born, or what is used with what to make a drink just to play a really neat adventure game? Sure it took me a while, sometimes random guessing took a while, but I got in... we need to take a better approach then asking for a birthdate and/or asking silly age questions like Sierra did if we want to take a serious approach to age verification.
See, 2600 says all over that it publishes these things because when companies "see" the errors of their ways, then these errors will be corrected and 2600 is doing them a favor. Now, how these errors are pointed out, well, that's where benevolent ideals sometimes change into hardships. To me telling people about this idea that can dumbfound GPS with an ideal that something better needs to be done is wonderful and I support a free press, but what type of hardship may be created by a very public display and at what cost.
I'm all for the 2600 magazin'es approach of "this is for informational purposes only, please don't use this to do bad things, bad things are bad..." but I'd really hate to see this technology plundered.
GPS is such a vital tool in land surveying that I fear having to relocate those pins scattered all though the US, and can you imagine the inaccuracies that this would cause? How far would it set us back? Think of the NOAA experiment that found the Washington Monument to be a different height then previously measured. (new height is here)
It certainly wouldn't be a cheap way to build your own super computer, but it could give a slight aid to the distributed.net efforts (and the like), but what I think could be interesting would be when you dock a PDA could you use it's processor in SMP with your base machine?
Obviously it wouldn't provide your with astonding improvements in image rendering time, but if the thing's just sitting there...
Actually, I just got back from a presentation on the importance of encryption to find your posting and I think I'm still rattling quotes from the speech.
Nice ability to count there, and you do bring up an interesting other point I was talking about - I live in PA and there is a growing amount of Amish who take credit cards for various businesses they have, so even the Amish should think about how securely they send info or their customers could have their information stolen.
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I disagree with you:
Even if you try an avoid the Internet, and never plan to do business on it, if you want your private information kept private then you need to be concerned with encryption.
More and more states are keeping tons of information about you accessible to a hacker on some server somewhere - and if the info is kept encrypted it adds a little bit of safety (now if they don't have a trusted 3rd party and they keep their secret decryption key on the same computer as the data, well, I don't consider that to be a good use of encryption).
Do you have a driver's license? Is your state dumb enough to use your SSN as your drivers license number (several do)? Register a gun? Get a speeding ticket? Want everyone to know everything?
Crypto isn't just for political speech (you decide if your society is free or not) and dissident movements anymore.
If you trust your work to keep your information secure, have you ever taken the time to think how secure?
You should always remember Satires, VI, line 347 Juvenal, C. 100 C.E. Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (translated: Who will guard the guards?)
You need to take things into your own hands sometimes, just stepping away from the computer won't make it all go away.
You might want to look into EROS (it's website is http://www.eros-os.org/). It's not out of the "hello world" stage the last time I checked, but I'm sure the guy could use your assistance.
Did you ever type a really large number into Dr. Sbaitso (with his echoing of what you type turned on obviously) and hear him go on and on about nonillion etc.... very interesting, someone had some time on their hands to break down large numbers phonetically.
Just try getting Jeeves to cough up that info from a simple number input.
I'm confused... what do you refer to when you say "these"??? What would a beowulf help you with here? Are you trying to ask every possibly question to Jeeves for some reason? If that's the case I think there's a deeper question you need to ask yourself.
I personally loved that book and would like to add that it's not only up to date enough to be useful, it's entertaining.
If you are an admin concerned in the least with security, don't bye into the recent hype about supposed security books that just republish commonly known things (like don't use password for your password).
But my beef is that when you tell them to "not call you again" or "take your name off their list" they don't actually take your name off of anything, the just mark you in the database with the date/time saying not to call for atleast a year. Now there is an entire market of selling this information to other telemarketers- since there is nothing illegal about someone else calling you, and hey you picked up the phone so you seem to be a pretty good candidate to answer again.
But my beef is that when you tell them to "not call you again" or "take your name off their list" they don't actually take your name off of anything, the just mark you in the database with the date/time saying not to call for atleast a year. Now there is an entire market of selling this information to other telemarketers- since there is nothing illegal about someone else calling you, and hey you picked up the phone so you seem to be a pretty good candidate to answer again.
Points are awared for creating a working solution (since that's the point right?) and if there is need of seperating a tie then efficiency* is brought into play.
* Sometimes they say that if your program runs in say >5 minutes it is considered non-functional, so a very naive approach that is technically valid is often not accepted.
I highly recomend storing the adjaceny list in a hash table for easy lookup, but past that there is no known fast (ie in polynomial time) alg. to find a shortest path - if someone out there knows of one: email me and we will go on tour!
What is possibly the best (yes, yes, there is always that worst case where the path goes through all n nodes) solution uses a breadth first search using a queue with parent points to find your path back to your starting node.
I would like to add, however, that this contest is important to motivate people to take an interest in teaching group software development under a time constraint. What I have learned from being an ACM coder for the past few years greatly helped me on the job working with other coders, and people who had an idea but just didn't know how to code it up.
Sharing a single computer was better influence over good programing practices (for speedier debuging if not having the occasional team-mate reading over your shoulder) than any software development course I've had.
They say it's "a potential weapons development platform" not that it would itself be used for the system in whatever you are shooting. The idea is old, (think back to why the US needed the second computer [yes the colosus was first]) to shoot big guns loaded with "dumb" ammo you need to calcualte trajectory for different sized/weighted ammunitions, explosive devices, and firing angles (as well as wind, temperature, etc...)
So they are apparently worried that tom, dick, and or harry will have the smarts to create a powerful gun - so powerful that they would need to know trajectories - but apparently in all of their engineering skills and needed tools to create such a gun they don't have access to your (or someone else's) 8086 via ebay and enough time to wait for the numbers.
Can you clarify just how a powerful PS2 whose makers don't seem to be fighting off any dominating force in the gaming industry is being marketed like the uphil-fighting, often power-lacking apple mac?
Ignoring the whole mod chip/plug mod arena and the often less then legal acts taken by those who posses them wouldn't a person rather use the playstation2 itself for the number cruncing? Why take the CPU (which as other posters have pointed out, if you are capable of removing a CPU for other uses and actually using it you could probably find other means of obtaining the CPU), why not make a CD with your app for number crunching and fill it with test data and have the output be directed to the screen (or if you are more inteligent use the built in modem of the PS2 and have it upload said info to your server). Now you can have a distributed system of PS2s crunching on your trajectories, all uploading as they finish.
On the same note, I wish there was an easy way to develop for personal use for the playstation. I have seen the banned Playboy Game - which isn't a game at all, but allows the user to view pictures. What I wouldn't give to be able to put my own collection of digital picks on a burned CD and (heck I'd settle for the playboy engine) view the images. Sure, there are apps (even for linux) but they all require proprietary sony apps. Couldn't the bleem! guys put something together for this?
Yeah, does anyone know what his ISP has set for the limit? This seems kinda dumb to me... is this a common thing to see for many sites or is this site just trying to do the Internet in a cheap way?
I use railroad terms for mine. It adds a flavor that most can not recognize, and tracing packets from Reading to Wabash sure is fun. Also, names like Tehachapi make for friends telneting in and trying to get on a little tough since no one can remember how to spell it... Names like Johnson and Lube have also made for fun telneting experiences....
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Wouldn't this be just the inverse of the Leisure Suit Larry (old version) quiz you used to get to verify you were old enough to play?
hmmm.... that didn't seem to stop me then from getting in...
Why am I reminded of when I was a kid and repeatedly guessing at questions about who was president before I was born, or what is used with what to make a drink just to play a really neat adventure game? Sure it took me a while, sometimes random guessing took a while, but I got in... we need to take a better approach then asking for a birthdate and/or asking silly age questions like Sierra did if we want to take a serious approach to age verification.
See, 2600 says all over that it publishes these things because when companies "see" the errors of their ways, then these errors will be corrected and 2600 is doing them a favor. Now, how these errors are pointed out, well, that's where benevolent ideals sometimes change into hardships. To me telling people about this idea that can dumbfound GPS with an ideal that something better needs to be done is wonderful and I support a free press, but what type of hardship may be created by a very public display and at what cost.
GPS is such a vital tool in land surveying that I fear having to relocate those pins scattered all though the US, and can you imagine the inaccuracies that this would cause? How far would it set us back? Think of the
NOAA experiment that found the Washington Monument to be a different height then previously measured. (new height is
here)
In what way are you imagining this?
It certainly wouldn't be a cheap way to build your own super computer, but it could give a slight aid to the distributed.net efforts (and the like), but what I think could be interesting would be when you dock a PDA could you use it's processor in SMP with your base machine?
Obviously it wouldn't provide your with astonding improvements in image rendering time, but if the thing's just sitting there...
Actually, I just got back from a presentation on the importance of encryption to find your posting and I think I'm still rattling quotes from the speech.
Nice ability to count there, and you do bring up an interesting other point I was talking about - I live in PA and there is a growing amount of Amish who take credit cards for various businesses they have, so even the Amish should think about how securely they send info or their customers could have their information stolen.
I disagree with you:
Even if you try an avoid the Internet, and never plan to do business on it, if you want your private information kept private then you need to be concerned with encryption.
More and more states are keeping tons of information about you accessible to a hacker on some server somewhere - and if the info is kept encrypted it adds a little bit of safety (now if they don't have a trusted 3rd party and they keep their secret decryption key on the same computer as the data, well, I don't consider that to be a good use of encryption).
Do you have a driver's license? Is your state dumb enough to use your SSN as your drivers license number (several do)? Register a gun? Get a speeding ticket? Want everyone to know everything?
Crypto isn't just for political speech (you decide if your society is free or not) and dissident movements anymore.
If you trust your work to keep your information secure, have you ever taken the time to think how secure?
You should always remember Satires, VI, line 347
Juvenal, C. 100 C.E.
Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
(translated: Who will guard the guards?)
You need to take things into your own hands sometimes, just stepping away from the computer won't make it all go away.
You might want to look into EROS (it's website is http://www.eros-os.org/). It's not out of the "hello world" stage the last time I checked, but I'm sure the guy could use your assistance.
Did you ever type a really large number into Dr. Sbaitso (with his echoing of what you type turned on obviously) and hear him go on and on about nonillion etc.... very interesting, someone had some time on their hands to break down large numbers phonetically.
Just try getting Jeeves to cough up that info from a simple number input.
I'm confused... what do you refer to when you say "these"??? What would a beowulf help you with here? Are you trying to ask every possibly question to Jeeves for some reason? If that's the case I think there's a deeper question you need to ask yourself.
If only I knew where I put that infinitly long strip... it's got to be around here somewhere...
I personally loved that book and would like to add that it's not only up to date enough to be useful, it's entertaining.
If you are an admin concerned in the least with security, don't bye into the recent hype about supposed security books that just republish commonly known things (like don't use password for your password).
Do they have some sort of filtering for people who ask "Where can I find microsoft.com" that are too dumb to just type it in themselves?
Why do they even bother reporting on the results since they could just forward these people right to the proper server???
But my beef is that when you tell them to "not call you again" or "take your name off their list" they don't actually take your name off of anything, the just mark you in the database with the date/time saying not to call for atleast a year. Now there is an entire market of selling this information to other telemarketers- since there is nothing illegal about someone else calling you, and hey you picked up the phone so you seem to be a pretty good candidate to answer again.
It's a tough bind.
But my beef is that when you tell them to "not call you again" or "take your name off their list" they don't actually take your name off of anything, the just mark you in the database with the date/time saying not to call for atleast a year. Now there is an entire market of selling this information to other telemarketers- since there is nothing illegal about someone else calling you, and hey you picked up the phone so you seem to be a pretty good candidate to answer again.
It's a tough bind.
Points are awared for creating a working solution (since that's the point right?) and if there is need of seperating a tie then efficiency* is brought into play.
* Sometimes they say that if your program runs in say >5 minutes it is considered non-functional, so a very naive approach that is technically valid is often not accepted.
I don't recall... was there the ANSII standard imposed on that?
(I seem to remember that ANSII does not allow for embeded Assembly code, which would have made for some slick bit shifting and fast output)
I highly recomend storing the adjaceny list in a hash table for easy lookup, but past that there is no known fast (ie in polynomial time) alg. to find a shortest path - if someone out there knows of one: email me and we will go on tour!
What is possibly the best (yes, yes, there is always that worst case where the path goes through all n nodes) solution uses a breadth first search using a queue with parent points to find your path back to your starting node.
A depth first search is often not the best.
I agree, things at Lehigh weren't much better.
I would like to add, however, that this contest is important to motivate people to take an interest in teaching group software development under a time constraint. What I have learned from being an ACM coder for the past few years greatly helped me on the job working with other coders, and people who had an idea but just didn't know how to code it up.
Sharing a single computer was better influence over good programing practices (for speedier debuging if not having the occasional team-mate reading over your shoulder) than any software development course I've had.
They say it's "a potential weapons development platform" not that it would itself be used for the system in whatever you are shooting. The idea is old, (think back to why the US needed the second computer [yes the colosus was first]) to shoot big guns loaded with "dumb" ammo you need to calcualte trajectory for different sized/weighted ammunitions, explosive devices, and firing angles (as well as wind, temperature, etc...)
So they are apparently worried that tom, dick, and or harry will have the smarts to create a powerful gun - so powerful that they would need to know trajectories - but apparently in all of their engineering skills and needed tools to create such a gun they don't have access to your (or someone else's) 8086 via ebay and enough time to wait for the numbers.
Can you clarify just how a powerful PS2 whose makers don't seem to be fighting off any dominating force in the gaming industry is being marketed like the uphil-fighting, often power-lacking apple mac?
Ignoring the whole mod chip/plug mod arena and the often less then legal acts taken by those who posses them wouldn't a person rather use the playstation2 itself for the number cruncing? Why take the CPU (which as other posters have pointed out, if you are capable of removing a CPU for other uses and actually using it you could probably find other means of obtaining the CPU), why not make a CD with your app for number crunching and fill it with test data and have the output be directed to the screen (or if you are more inteligent use the built in modem of the PS2 and have it upload said info to your server). Now you can have a distributed system of PS2s crunching on your trajectories, all uploading as they finish.
On the same note, I wish there was an easy way to develop for personal use for the playstation. I have seen the banned Playboy Game - which isn't a game at all, but allows the user to view pictures. What I wouldn't give to be able to put my own collection of digital picks on a burned CD and (heck I'd settle for the playboy engine) view the images. Sure, there are apps (even for linux) but they all require proprietary sony apps. Couldn't the bleem! guys put something together for this?
Don't you hate it when they make you do the dishes, AND clean that cat box?
Yeah, does anyone know what his ISP has set for the limit? This seems kinda dumb to me... is this a common thing to see for many sites or is this site just trying to do the Internet in a cheap way?
I use railroad terms for mine. It adds a flavor that most can not recognize, and tracing packets from Reading to Wabash sure is fun. Also, names like Tehachapi make for friends telneting in and trying to get on a little tough since no one can remember how to spell it... Names like Johnson and Lube have also made for fun telneting experiences....