I feel a good use for Dual-core systems is to put the OS on one core, including all explorer.exe instances and threads.
The operating system shoul employ a smart system of monitoring CPU usage per thread and move the high- usage threads to the other core.
I wonder though, on a slightly different topic - heat dispersion: nobody seems to talk about it - but two cores mean twice as much heat. How the hell do they do away with the heat? It dissapointing but they might be speedstepping/downclocking the cores dynamically at peak load.
Kickass. Now we can talk on our phones for longer times, so that the phone companies can make more money out of us.
I still think a better idea would be to create a more efficient power source, such as those small mini-reactors that use leftover waste from nuclear power plants. Those have a far greater energy potential...
Perhaps Microsoft should employ Mr. Zimmerman of PGP to fix M$'s broken code.
The fact that so many documents written (especially now) are using Microsoft formats, makes this problem very dangerous.
Its worth mentioning that any docuemtns that are actually worth protecting should by default not rely on Micrsofts (lack of) security, as it is a known trend that Microsoft fails time and time again to provide adaquate security.
People think "wow! encryption, and NOT a lame password". By as per normal, scratch a little deeper and you can see how flawed microsoft code actually is...
A worthy statement. Very true. Abuse of a good system can cause the system to be reflected as a bad one. Perhaps they should restrict such things like caching; things which can be applied to many different technologies and be interpreted in many contexts. Sure, if someone thinks of something good, patent it. For example, patent your design of a system which reduces fume emissions; but don't go patent the idea of reducing fume emmissions.
Im not trolling... But seriously, patents need to be banned. It's crippling the IT world.
In my country, there is a phone company called telkom. They make BILLIONS in profit every year. The reason for this is that our government has granted monopoly rights to the phone company. It sucks!
The reason they grant them monopolism is because 80% of the government has shares in the damn company, causing the rest of the country to be screwed as a result.
Patents are the same - the hurt local and global economies by enabling monopolism.
Dammit... Thats an excellent idea. I get so annoyed with the same old crap on the radio stations. This way, you will always have new stuff. Hell, For vice city, you could get a bunch of 80's radio stations (there are quite a few) although I will suspect that the radio DJ's and production crew will want a slice of profits... I could be a symbiotic relationship...
Its amazing that this is possible! I read the article and couldn't believe it. Cognitive recognition is one of the first stepping stones to proper artificial intelligence.
Yet when AI reaches the point that it becomes almost human-like, problems are going to form. If the programming of an AI system leads itself to thinks it understands that it is sentient, would it mean that the AI is in fact sentient?
After all, intelligence is intelligence. By any means, an electrical intelligence could be regarded equal, because the only difference between us and "them" would be that we use a chemical and electrical method of processing data, whereas atrifical intelligence-based systems would be using purely electronic methods.
Surely, if input (a video stream coming from an optical sensor, such as a human eye or a digital video camera), and auditory input (ears, or microphone-based) which gets processed (human brain, or CPU) and then output (screen, face, voice, speaker, etc) should not be perceived differently. Humans are data processors (data in, data out in the form of a reaction). Advanced Computer AI would be the same (data in, data out).
I find it annoying. I wish patents could be done away with completely. I dont know if other slashdot readers agree, but it goes against the fostering of new software, improvements and so on.
Referring to a previous slashdot article on Microsoft causing price reductions in software... Software patents and price reduction go hand in hand. The reason I think this is because the only way to compete with companies with a huge market share, such as microsoft, is to either (a) Get more patents, to screw them back, or (b) to copy what they are doing (at least make it very similar, without infringing on patents) and make the price much lower.
The only way, then, to heal the software industry it to do away with patents. That way, the person with the best product can charge what he wants, not the only person with the product.
Basically, patents == monopoly, which is saddening.
They should rather have used the smallville dude. Why? Because chicks dig him (so thats 50% of the population covered who will be watching) and because he knows the role. People would relate better to him as superman as a result of the interesting effect of continuity. They cant just keep changing all the time!
On the contrary, I believe this occurence should force the release date forward - i.e. get it legally earlier; this would lighten the blow of piracy by making legal release concurrent to the leaked one, causing less copies to be stolen (people have a greater chance of buying games as opposed to copying when the game is actually available in the stores.)
Anyone disagree?
Just thought I'd say:
The reason I need to look at code in assembler is that I am an embedded developer; not only in code speed important, but code size. Most serious embedded developers will agree with me.
I do, however also agree with you. For web development where you're using php/asp anyways effienciency isnt neccesary. Like all things in the world, what you need to do is measured by what problem you need to solve:)
In my honest optinion, the most suitable solution for this would be a cooperative effort between cellphone manufacturers and the companies selling the jammers. Of course, doing it the way I am about to describe will only apply to new phones being manufactured, but hey.
Here's how I see it working; In the cellphone being manufactured, the software should include a feature where it listens for a certain signal, on a certain band (not the GSM band.) This signal will originate from a transmitter placed in the centre of the cinema room for example, with the range extending just over the boundries of the room. The cellphones must obey these signals, and automatically place the cellphone on silent, for example. Also, when the people leave the cinema, the phone will detect the signal has dissapeared, and un-silence the phone autmatically. This way, cell-phone jammers (which use a substancial amount of power, for one thing) would be simplified to the point where they are easy to make and affordable as it only needs to transmit a weak signal on a well-known frequency.
BUT, for now, I dont forsee any simple method of only allowing emergency calls through when they're dumping white noise over the GSM band to block phones.
Maybe they can put emergy phone calls on their own special band which doesnt get blocked. It will be interesting how the get the "only allow emergency calls" system up and running...
yes, I read the article. I was just making a statement regarding power consumption of GPSes in general and as a matter of interest, as we run in to those issues on a day-to-day basis at work.
Of couse, like an idiot, I misspelled the word "do" in my last post as "dp". Damn keyboard gremlins. Should have read the preview a little more... My bad.:)
I believe the success of GPS has always been the fact that it can reliably give you your position at any point in time. To achieve this, the battery _HAS_ to last long enough.
I'm all for linux, but when it comes to GPS I have always been sceptical.
At work, we are developing a device for the police department. It's a portable device based on the ARMVI CPU that runs WindowsCE; the OS does quite a good job. The question is, I guess, can the linux software live up to those needs?
When in its active state, GPS's really use one intense amount of power that it's just not funny; this means the software will need to keep the GPS out of active state for as long as possible. Built-in GPS OSes keep to that important rule as simple rule of thumb. Maybe I should go through the linux code and see what they dp; chances are good they're doing the same, or even better; maybe I can even contribute something to the code base later when I'm bored.:)
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... is enough to keep any Linux user away.
:(
But the worst though has to be the bugs present on x86; Isnt the move away from microsoft meant to INCREASE stability.
With these bugs, unfortunately, we are back to block A
Pity, I was looking forward to it.
I feel a good use for Dual-core systems is to put the OS on one core, including all explorer.exe instances and threads.
The operating system shoul employ a smart system of monitoring CPU usage per thread and move the high- usage threads to the other core.
I wonder though, on a slightly different topic - heat dispersion: nobody seems to talk about it - but two cores mean twice as much heat. How the hell do they do away with the heat? It dissapointing but they might be speedstepping/downclocking the cores dynamically at peak load.
This certain warrants discussion.
Finally. I dont know why they butchered all the movies. Does that mean I can send my stargate collection back for a replacement?
:)
Sounds like SnakeOilWare to me...
where the fsk did they find this crap. LOL. fukme freddy. 2 months early cowboyneal.
the scary thing is they will find a few idiots who will order this technobabble bullshit fake-ass crap product.
how lame do you get?
Although I am referring to the slashdot article on the subject a few months ago (i can't find the link on slashdot though..., sorry)
Kickass. Now we can talk on our phones for longer times, so that the phone companies can make more money out of us. I still think a better idea would be to create a more efficient power source, such as those small mini-reactors that use leftover waste from nuclear power plants. Those have a far greater energy potential...
Perhaps Microsoft should employ Mr. Zimmerman of PGP to fix M$'s broken code.
The fact that so many documents written (especially now) are using Microsoft formats, makes this problem very dangerous.
Its worth mentioning that any docuemtns that are actually worth protecting should by default not rely on Micrsofts (lack of) security, as it is a known trend that Microsoft fails time and time again to provide adaquate security.
People think "wow! encryption, and NOT a lame password". By as per normal, scratch a little deeper and you can see how flawed microsoft code actually is...
dude your site is BLANK???
A worthy statement. Very true. Abuse of a good system can cause the system to be reflected as a bad one. Perhaps they should restrict such things like caching; things which can be applied to many different technologies and be interpreted in many contexts. Sure, if someone thinks of something good, patent it. For example, patent your design of a system which reduces fume emissions; but don't go patent the idea of reducing fume emmissions.
In my ohnest opinion, it won't be too long before google comes up with something better.
It is worth mentioning, though, that A9's improved searching capabilities do provide much needed competition for google.
Not a bad idea though from them, it must have cost them one hell of a lot of money to do though.
Im not trolling... But seriously, patents need to be banned. It's crippling the IT world.
In my country, there is a phone company called telkom. They make BILLIONS in profit every year. The reason for this is that our government has granted monopoly rights to the phone company. It sucks!
The reason they grant them monopolism is because 80% of the government has shares in the damn company, causing the rest of the country to be screwed as a result.
Patents are the same - the hurt local and global economies by enabling monopolism.
Dammit... Thats an excellent idea. I get so annoyed with the same old crap on the radio stations. This way, you will always have new stuff. Hell, For vice city, you could get a bunch of 80's radio stations (there are quite a few) although I will suspect that the radio DJ's and production crew will want a slice of profits... I could be a symbiotic relationship...
Not a bad interview...
I havent *actually *listened** to RFZ, but have heard it is relatively good...
I enjoyed the matrix movies, as well as the matrix music and so on that goes worth it.
I wander when the time will come that radio streams will overtake traditional FM radio in lister quantity... Can it happen?
Its amazing that this is possible! I read the article and couldn't believe it. Cognitive recognition is one of the first stepping stones to proper artificial intelligence.
Yet when AI reaches the point that it becomes almost human-like, problems are going to form. If the programming of an AI system leads itself to thinks it understands that it is sentient, would it mean that the AI is in fact sentient?
After all, intelligence is intelligence. By any means, an electrical intelligence could be regarded equal, because the only difference between us and "them" would be that we use a chemical and electrical method of processing data, whereas atrifical intelligence-based systems would be using purely electronic methods.
Surely, if input (a video stream coming from an optical sensor, such as a human eye or a digital video camera), and auditory input (ears, or microphone-based) which gets processed (human brain, or CPU) and then output (screen, face, voice, speaker, etc) should not be perceived differently. Humans are data processors (data in, data out in the form of a reaction). Advanced Computer AI would be the same (data in, data out).
Would humans really be that special then?
I find it annoying. I wish patents could be done away with completely. I dont know if other slashdot readers agree, but it goes against the fostering of new software, improvements and so on.
Referring to a previous slashdot article on Microsoft causing price reductions in software... Software patents and price reduction go hand in hand. The reason I think this is because the only way to compete with companies with a huge market share, such as microsoft, is to either (a) Get more patents, to screw them back, or (b) to copy what they are doing (at least make it very similar, without infringing on patents) and make the price much lower.
The only way, then, to heal the software industry it to do away with patents. That way, the person with the best product can charge what he wants, not the only person with the product.
Basically, patents == monopoly, which is saddening.
But if his LED Happens to be red He will be fucked in the ass instead. :p
Seriously, now... GILLMORE GIRLS??? PLEASE.
They should rather have used the smallville dude. Why?
Because chicks dig him (so thats 50% of the population covered who will be watching) and because he knows the role.
People would relate better to him as superman as a result of the interesting effect of continuity. They cant just keep changing all the time!
Good point.
On the contrary, I believe this occurence should force the release date forward - i.e. get it legally earlier; this would lighten the blow of piracy by making legal release concurrent to the leaked one, causing less copies to be stolen (people have a greater chance of buying games as opposed to copying when the game is actually available in the stores.)
Anyone disagree?
Ethics removed, human cloning does more good than bad, IMHO.
Just thought I'd say: :)
The reason I need to look at code in assembler is that I am an embedded developer; not only in code speed important, but code size. Most serious embedded developers will agree with me.
I do, however also agree with you. For web development where you're using php/asp anyways effienciency isnt neccesary. Like all things in the world, what you need to do is measured by what problem you need to solve
In my honest optinion, the most suitable solution for this would be a cooperative effort between cellphone manufacturers and the companies selling the jammers. Of course, doing it the way I am about to describe will only apply to new phones being manufactured, but hey.
Here's how I see it working; In the cellphone being manufactured, the software should include a feature where it listens for a certain signal, on a certain band (not the GSM band.) This signal will originate from a transmitter placed in the centre of the cinema room for example, with the range extending just over the boundries of the room. The cellphones must obey these signals, and automatically place the cellphone on silent, for example. Also, when the people leave the cinema, the phone will detect the signal has dissapeared, and un-silence the phone autmatically. This way, cell-phone jammers (which use a substancial amount of power, for one thing) would be simplified to the point where they are easy to make and affordable as it only needs to transmit a weak signal on a well-known frequency.
BUT, for now, I dont forsee any simple method of only allowing emergency calls through when they're dumping white noise over the GSM band to block phones.
Maybe they can put emergy phone calls on their own special band which doesnt get blocked. It will be interesting how the get the "only allow emergency calls" system up and running...
yes, I read the article. I was just making a statement regarding power consumption of GPSes in general and as a matter of interest, as we run in to those issues on a day-to-day basis at work.
Of couse, like an idiot, I misspelled the word "do" in my last post as "dp". Damn keyboard gremlins. Should have read the preview a little more ... :)
My bad.
I believe the success of GPS has always been the fact that it can reliably give you your position at any point in time. To achieve this, the battery _HAS_ to last long enough. :)
I'm all for linux, but when it comes to GPS I have always been sceptical.
At work, we are developing a device for the police department. It's a portable device based on the ARMVI CPU that runs WindowsCE; the OS does quite a good job. The question is, I guess, can the linux software live up to those needs?
When in its active state, GPS's really use one intense amount of power that it's just not funny; this means the software will need to keep the GPS out of active state for as long as possible. Built-in GPS OSes keep to that important rule as simple rule of thumb. Maybe I should go through the linux code and see what they dp; chances are good they're doing the same, or even better; maybe I can even contribute something to the code base later when I'm bored.