I read the title as AL taught how to play Ms Pac Man and my first thought was "damn, the day Slashdot reports on Al Gore playing old computer games is the day I stop visiting."
Happily Slashdot is fine - it's my brain that is malfunctioning.
I think I'd name mine Igor. Then, assuming I can find the right USB widgets, I can shout "Igor! Raise the lightning rod and find me a fresh brain" - at which point my life's final ambition will have been achieved.
That said, the USB iBrainExtractor is probably as much of a technical challenge as producing speech recognition that isn't a pain in the ass.
If you believe that a Chinese hacker couldn't hack into one of a few million PCs outside of China and then attack you from there, you're probably not giving them enough credit...
All these arguments about different methodologies and techniques being harmful or not boil down to one thing:
"There are no good constructs, there are no bad constructs; a compiler in the hands of a bad programmer is a bad thing, a compiler in the hands of a good programmer is no threat to anyone - except the patent system."
Although the Itanium couldn't match the competition in production, it was an innovative (or at least different) idea in the processor arena.
The AMD64 (and it's evil clone the EM64T) which whupped the Itanium still have reasonably strong blood ties to the 8080 from the late 70's along with the "exciting" design decisions that were made with the x86 line. (Yes, I know they've added a load of registers, introduced superscalar out-of-order execution and a load of other neat stuff, but at the core you're still maintaining backwards compat. with some very old kit)
I'm not saying the Itanium's design was perfect or even particularly good, but I liked having a bit of diversity in the processor market. It's particularly sad that the Alpha died for the ultimately doomed Itanium to exist too.
Sadly enough, when I first read the title I was like "an elevator from the earth to the moon? Surely that's harder than just one that goes into space?"
Of course, having had this thought and being a geek, I have to take it to it's illogical conclusion:
So, you couldn't just anchor it to a single point. So you'd have to encase the earth in the universe's largest ball bearing, so the the relative position of the anchor remains stationary, rather than creating some sort of twisted celestial yo-yo.
I used to use Logic on Windows (when that was available). It's a grade A nightmare to use. Even the musicians I know struggle with it.
It can do nearly everything you could possibly imagine, but it'll make you pay for it every step of the way.
I never got very far without my head in the manual, which was a serious blow to my geek credibility (in front of pretty musician I was setting it up for I might add)....
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I read the title as AL taught how to play Ms Pac Man and my first thought was "damn, the day Slashdot reports on Al Gore playing old computer games is the day I stop visiting."
Happily Slashdot is fine - it's my brain that is malfunctioning.
I think I'd name mine Igor. Then, assuming I can find the right USB widgets, I can shout "Igor! Raise the lightning rod and find me a fresh brain" - at which point my life's final ambition will have been achieved.
That said, the USB iBrainExtractor is probably as much of a technical challenge as producing speech recognition that isn't a pain in the ass.
If you believe that a Chinese hacker couldn't hack into one of a few million PCs outside of China and then attack you from there, you're probably not giving them enough credit...
Oblig. Quote: [Amy daubs herself in fresh ambergris] Mom: Who smells of freakin' porpoise hawk? Amy: I do!
All these arguments about different methodologies and techniques being harmful or not boil down to one thing:
"There are no good constructs, there are no bad constructs; a compiler in the hands of a bad programmer is a bad thing, a compiler in the hands of a good programmer is no threat to anyone - except the patent system."But it could be a continuous monolith? A mobius monolith perhaps?
Give a geek an interesting, if fictional, concept and he's doomed to make lame jokes about it for the rest of eternity....
Although the Itanium couldn't match the competition in production, it was an innovative (or at least different) idea in the processor arena.
The AMD64 (and it's evil clone the EM64T) which whupped the Itanium still have reasonably strong blood ties to the 8080 from the late 70's along with the "exciting" design decisions that were made with the x86 line. (Yes, I know they've added a load of registers, introduced superscalar out-of-order execution and a load of other neat stuff, but at the core you're still maintaining backwards compat. with some very old kit)
I'm not saying the Itanium's design was perfect or even particularly good, but I liked having a bit of diversity in the processor market. It's particularly sad that the Alpha died for the ultimately doomed Itanium to exist too.
Ho hum. At least we still have the Power I guess.
The presentation at http://www.xelerance.com/mirror/otr/otr-wpes-prese nt.pdf is pretty good.
A few paragraphs of description and some high level maths too.
Erm, there's a reasonably detailed presentation there and a protocol description on the OTR homepage link provided. What more do you want?
From a cursory glance it looks like it'd work (yes, I realise that's not exactly a rigorous proof). Pretty cool stuff.
Sadly enough, when I first read the title I was like "an elevator from the earth to the moon? Surely that's harder than just one that goes into space?"
Of course, having had this thought and being a geek, I have to take it to it's illogical conclusion:
So, you couldn't just anchor it to a single point. So you'd have to encase the earth in the universe's largest ball bearing, so the the relative position of the anchor remains stationary, rather than creating some sort of twisted celestial yo-yo.
Bad news, your server has been reduced to a pool of smoking silicon.
DSL hosted sites don't last long on slashdot...
That link looks dead to me... If you've got it throw it up on torrent or gnutella.
I used to use Logic on Windows (when that was available). It's a grade A nightmare to use. Even the musicians I know struggle with it. It can do nearly everything you could possibly imagine, but it'll make you pay for it every step of the way. I never got very far without my head in the manual, which was a serious blow to my geek credibility (in front of pretty musician I was setting it up for I might add)....
It look a bit like he's fooling around with firearms in the top right. Definitely something I'd want to include on my conceptual mosiac thing.....