If they are to find "Grand Unified Theory" I wander if it contains not only "The Function" that explains all interactions in universe but more importantly, why is function evaluated at all and how it is evaluated. Is it possible that any mathematical function can evaluate itself, and if not, is there any other explanation? That would be perhaps more interesting answer then The Function itself.
I tought now it supposed to be Final Battle with ultimate evil of Carlyle group and SCO, all those good names like Bush, Bin Laden, Gates, McBreid, and all of sudden he is leaving? No Death Star explosion in the end?
Solomon's problem R112 of vehicle routing with time windows (VRPTW) has best solution found using Ant Colony (ACO) algorithm. You can bet researchers thrown *all* known algorithms (Tabu, annealing, genetic,...) at it, still Ant wins. In other instances ACO has similar results to other algorithms while, from programmer perspective, is much simpler and more elegant.
Why is it that every single article that references any scientific development in the fields of genetics or molecular biology gets the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag on Slashdot?
Because here on/. we know for sure that manipulating firmware is generally bad idea?
It is hard to predict what creative artists heads are capable of, given possibilities of Ray Tracing. In the beginning it will not being much improvement over current state-of-the-art graphics, just like graphics in late Amiga 2D games looked much better then first 3D textured games (few polygons, low-res textures). With Ray Tracing technology, complexity of scene (number of polygons) can be increased by several orders of magnitude. This can especially improve games like flight simulators, where you can see millions of polygons "at once", think of looking at multiple cities at once from 5000 meters height. Ray tracing is (almost) infinitely parallel process. If 100-cores CPU existed, it would be easy to utilize all those cores to render a Ray Traced scene 100 times faster then 1 core is able to do.
I don't quite understand how Quantum thing will change SW development as we know today, so maybe someone can bring insight beyond factorization, which is not all that interesting (since everybody is informed about factorization speedup many times). For example, does it mean traditional programming languages will be modified, handling of variables will be different, maybe new operators? Or, only some external library will be introduced for set of quantum operations? Will it be able to solve Traveling Salesman in linear (or constant) time? Is it able to solve chess game?
Whoa?.... Shit! They just destroyed the grand ingenious plan to save Free World (tm) from Win32-API-based terrorist organizations. Well, there is still hope that Live CDs, Skype and Linux could become illegal too.
In the end, art is just applied science, but with wildly varying parameters, so it takes a very complex measuring instrument to appreciate the results.
Is it another way of saying "Art is cool but I just don't have fucking idea why!".
I know that it cannot happen to Apple usability gods, but still... If entering text is worse then on "normal" cell phone, entering numbers must be worse by far.
I wonder how long before we see all-in-one chip with CPU + GPU + Flash (32GB) + Sound + 1Gb Net + 2GB RAM. At price around $100 would be huge for low-end computers at K-Mart and Co. Such chip would allow for really small box at low price that works well with all "normal" applications (everything minus games and file servers).
Maybe AMD/Intel don't want to cut own profits by such design, but VIA could try it, however I am not sure they own flash technology (GPU from VIA is nothing special too, but DVI support would be sufficient in this case).
NetApp did something innovative with WAFL; Sun then came along, reimplemented everything, and called it ZFS.
No, CP/M came with all this "file system" stuff, NetApp then came along, reimplemented everything, and called it WAFL.
patent system is all about protecting people who do something new from corporations (like Sun or Microsoft) who just reimplement without adding anything new.
If they reimplement, then it is certainly bringing something new to the table, better competition on the market, if nothing else. History of software is history of reimplementing existing things again and again.
But how they will handle stealing of energy then? I can cut a wire anywhere in the wild and steal millions of Euros worth of energy into my suitcase (or car).
You are crying loud, but nobody is listening. I was user of MS products and dev tools until 2004 and always thought how great it would be if I could submit this or that bug to some bugzilla. But I can't. Unless your problem is visible to Joe Sixpack (like Excel's calculation), MS don't really care.
This is main reason why I think that MS dev tools like VS.NET simply cannot compete with open source NetBeans/Eclipse. I always get to some corner cases where I need author or real expert, someone that understand source code of the product, to assist me with my issue. And I never achieved that with MS products.
No, it goes:
First they ignore you
Then laugh at you and hate you
Then they fight you
Then you win
(Robbie Williams, Tripping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfJUQcknAjM)
since when geniuos minds play any significant role in politics? I imagine politician thinking "This guy would would give me half a million if I support software patents BUT there is this famous research study... Oh god, if I only could support both!".
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eg nVidia graphics drivers needing recompiling when a new version comes out and that sort of thing
I never expected I will say this but... here it is: Buy ATI ! They are opening 3D specs, AFAIK already opened 2D specs for new cards. Users can expect ATI new cards to play nice with new kernel versions regardless kernel upgrades. As a bonus, you will have drivers auto-installed as a part of the kernel (HDD or DVD drive right now).
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If they are to find "Grand Unified Theory" I wander if it contains not only "The Function" that explains all interactions in universe but more importantly, why is function evaluated at all and how it is evaluated. Is it possible that any mathematical function can evaluate itself, and if not, is there any other explanation? That would be perhaps more interesting answer then The Function itself.
I tought now it supposed to be Final Battle with ultimate evil of Carlyle group and SCO, all those good names like Bush, Bin Laden, Gates, McBreid, and all of sudden he is leaving? No Death Star explosion in the end?
porn king asking for more censorship? What a clown!
Solomon's problem R112 of vehicle routing with time windows (VRPTW) has best solution found using Ant Colony (ACO) algorithm. You can bet researchers thrown *all* known algorithms (Tabu, annealing, genetic, ...) at it, still Ant wins. In other instances ACO has similar results to other algorithms while, from programmer perspective, is much simpler and more elegant.
this must be a joke because 24 karats is enough for mainstream radio-quality pop songs. However, try playing SACD jazz on that!
Why is it that every single article that references any scientific development in the fields of genetics or molecular biology gets the "whatcouldpossiblygowrong" tag on Slashdot?
/. we know for sure that manipulating firmware is generally bad idea?
Because here on
Researchers from KFC (tm) ?
It is hard to predict what creative artists heads are capable of, given possibilities of Ray Tracing. In the beginning it will not being much improvement over current state-of-the-art graphics, just like graphics in late Amiga 2D games looked much better then first 3D textured games (few polygons, low-res textures). With Ray Tracing technology, complexity of scene (number of polygons) can be increased by several orders of magnitude. This can especially improve games like flight simulators, where you can see millions of polygons "at once", think of looking at multiple cities at once from 5000 meters height. Ray tracing is (almost) infinitely parallel process. If 100-cores CPU existed, it would be easy to utilize all those cores to render a Ray Traced scene 100 times faster then 1 core is able to do.
I don't quite understand how Quantum thing will change SW development as we know today, so maybe someone can bring insight beyond factorization, which is not all that interesting (since everybody is informed about factorization speedup many times). For example, does it mean traditional programming languages will be modified, handling of variables will be different, maybe new operators? Or, only some external library will be introduced for set of quantum operations? Will it be able to solve Traveling Salesman in linear (or constant) time? Is it able to solve chess game?
Each self-respecting programmer will tell you that in UK it is enough to reverse algorithm and travel backwards.
Whoa? .... Shit! They just destroyed the grand ingenious plan to save Free World (tm) from Win32-API-based terrorist organizations. Well, there is still hope that Live CDs, Skype and Linux could become illegal too.
In the end, art is just applied science, but with wildly varying parameters, so it takes a very complex measuring instrument to appreciate the results.
Is it another way of saying "Art is cool but I just don't have fucking idea why!".
Who to ask how to prepare turkey? Fucking propeller hat! Or instead we could by that new book "Head First Turkey".
I know that it cannot happen to Apple usability gods, but still... If entering text is worse then on "normal" cell phone, entering numbers must be worse by far.
I wonder how long before we see all-in-one chip with CPU + GPU + Flash (32GB) + Sound + 1Gb Net + 2GB RAM. At price around $100 would be huge for low-end computers at K-Mart and Co. Such chip would allow for really small box at low price that works well with all "normal" applications (everything minus games and file servers). Maybe AMD/Intel don't want to cut own profits by such design, but VIA could try it, however I am not sure they own flash technology (GPU from VIA is nothing special too, but DVI support would be sufficient in this case).
NetApp did something innovative with WAFL; Sun then came along, reimplemented everything, and called it ZFS.
No, CP/M came with all this "file system" stuff, NetApp then came along, reimplemented everything, and called it WAFL.
patent system is all about protecting people who do something new from corporations (like Sun or Microsoft) who just reimplement without adding anything new.
If they reimplement, then it is certainly bringing something new to the table, better competition on the market, if nothing else. History of software is history of reimplementing existing things again and again.
I think the pic caption is wrong - isn't that Hans on the right side?
Who knows, only Reiser certainly knows for sure. Mysteries just keep adding up in this strange story.
But how they will handle stealing of energy then? I can cut a wire anywhere in the wild and steal millions of Euros worth of energy into my suitcase (or car).
I extracted 4 key words from TFA : ...may...may...promising...testing.
I, for one, welcome our new dynamo-belt cow overlords.
You are crying loud, but nobody is listening. I was user of MS products and dev tools until 2004 and always thought how great it would be if I could submit this or that bug to some bugzilla. But I can't. Unless your problem is visible to Joe Sixpack (like Excel's calculation), MS don't really care.
This is main reason why I think that MS dev tools like VS.NET simply cannot compete with open source NetBeans/Eclipse. I always get to some corner cases where I need author or real expert, someone that understand source code of the product, to assist me with my issue. And I never achieved that with MS products.
No, it goes:
First they ignore you
Then laugh at you and hate you
Then they fight you
Then you win
(Robbie Williams, Tripping: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfJUQcknAjM)
And why are games REALLY important? Because if I boot to windows then what am I gonna recommend to my family and friends?
Playstation 3! Unless they want boot to Vista too.
since when geniuos minds play any significant role in politics? I imagine politician thinking "This guy would would give me half a million if I support software patents BUT there is this famous research study... Oh god, if I only could support both!".
eg nVidia graphics drivers needing recompiling when a new version comes out and that sort of thing
I never expected I will say this but... here it is: Buy ATI ! They are opening 3D specs, AFAIK already opened 2D specs for new cards. Users can expect ATI new cards to play nice with new kernel versions regardless kernel upgrades. As a bonus, you will have drivers auto-installed as a part of the kernel (HDD or DVD drive right now).