Strangely enough the more people you have around you, the less you get to know. One thing I have never dared to do was to compare the number of people I know in flesh and bone to the number of people I can recognize by their sigs.
Ohio hasn't officially certified thier results yet. They've already found a glitch (5000+ votes in a 600+ county, so if it was cheating it was a piss-poor job of it) that added votes to Bush.
The political fireworks if Ohio switches will be priceless.
That said, it's clear to anyone who's been paying attention that in terms of thier overall moral turpitude Kerry and Bush are equal; all we'd be getting is a different brand of evil.
[i]In every other country, when exit polls differ significantly from the official results, it is generally considered a pretty strong indicator of voter fraud.[/i]
Unfortunately the people being exit-polled are somewhat self-selected.
Bush has been called everything up to and including Hitler, his supporters are probably less likely to want to talk to someone doing exit polls, particularly as there is the popular perception (amongst Republicans) that the media has near monolithic liberal bias.
We also don't know that the exit polls were being conducted in locations which would give a good picture of the states as a whole.
Now if there was a twenty-point spread between the exit polls and the results that would have been dam good evidence that something funny was going on, even if the exit polls are done in a non-scientific manner.
I was unclear in my original statement. This was meant as a strictly local "cluster".
Over a gigabit link you can stream a large amount of high resolution video. In the gaming setup the "master" pc would just send out requests for specific frames. If any of the other nodes has those frames ready they send them back.
If no other node has those frames already ready to be stuck on the screen the "master" PC does the best job it can do alone. Our visual system will fill in the details as long as most of the frames are the highly detailed speculativly rendered one.
The algorithems for predicting which frames would be likely to be needed in the future would need quite a bit of tweaking.
Thanks for the pointer to Grid.org, it was informative. That wasn't quite where I was going though, I was imagining that it might be possible to have this "cluster" type system act as a single desktop workstation and/or gaming rig.
I'm not imagining this specifically as a clustering solution, but as a way to put together a pseudo-multi-processor computer. The "tasks" in a gaming PC could be really intelligent enemies, speculative pre-rendering areas from multiple vantage points *before* the player enters them, and any other task that could enhance the experience but that needs more power than a regular gaming PC offers.
That said, yeah, building it into a browser (especially one which is designed to be lightweight) sounds dumb.
Is it possible that we could see a distributed OS where Firefox on one computer acts as an interface to multiple computers which act in concert to "simulate" a much more powerful machine?
No this would not be a beowulf cluster.
The maximum amount of processing power available to any one process would be limited to the fastest machine in the group, but it could be useful for anyone who can give thier computer difficult tasks faster than the computer can complete those tasks.
Every new task would be automatically given to whichever node has the lightest load.
It's really cool that one company does online reservations, SETI, and biochemistry.
It reminds me of three bumper stickers I've seen together on one car. "0-60 in five minutes", "This is not an abandoned vehicle", and "I'd rather be driving a Titlist".
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Sensible, obvious solution.
Why would anything like that ever get modded up?
You must be new here.
Use the fluorescent fixtures when you don't care about interferance and the incandescent ones when you're recording.
...a Brita filter to make it smoother.
Strangely enough the more people you have around you, the less you get to know. One thing I have never dared to do was to compare the number of people I know in flesh and bone to the number of people I can recognize by their sigs.
And that's why I never use a sig.
Mind if I use that as a sig?
Is it the bad coffee, doyathink?
Perhaps they should try running that through a Brita filter.
That makes sense given the way that punch-card ballots work. The arrow *must* line up with the actual place that you're punching.
Ohio hasn't officially certified thier results yet. They've already found a glitch (5000+ votes in a 600+ county, so if it was cheating it was a piss-poor job of it) that added votes to Bush.
The political fireworks if Ohio switches will be priceless.
That said, it's clear to anyone who's been paying attention that in terms of thier overall moral turpitude Kerry and Bush are equal; all we'd be getting is a different brand of evil.
[i]In every other country, when exit polls differ significantly from the official results, it is generally considered a pretty strong indicator of voter fraud.[/i]
Unfortunately the people being exit-polled are somewhat self-selected.
Bush has been called everything up to and including Hitler, his supporters are probably less likely to want to talk to someone doing exit polls, particularly as there is the popular perception (amongst Republicans) that the media has near monolithic liberal bias.
We also don't know that the exit polls were being conducted in locations which would give a good picture of the states as a whole.
Now if there was a twenty-point spread between the exit polls and the results that would have been dam good evidence that something funny was going on, even if the exit polls are done in a non-scientific manner.
...can be used to break non-unbreakable CDs.
Cool.
I did a self learning tic-tac-toe game once, using Martin Gardner's matchbox learning algorithm.
It learned so well that it started to cheat.
Or any other simple game.
Nim would work nicely also.
Once the basic two human player version is done you can have them add a simple ruleset to let the computer play the game.
I'm rooting for Bush because I'm looking forward to the Civil War.
How the heck are we supposed to have a civil war when we can't even have a civil peace?
Nice trick. You arn't pointing to the current prediction at all. His current prediction shows Bush winning.
Of course it's a moot point, the polls tend to bounce around quite a bit, and there's really only one poll that counts.
I was unclear in my original statement. This was meant as a strictly local "cluster".
Over a gigabit link you can stream a large amount of high resolution video. In the gaming setup the "master" pc would just send out requests for specific frames. If any of the other nodes has those frames ready they send them back.
If no other node has those frames already ready to be stuck on the screen the "master" PC does the best job it can do alone. Our visual system will fill in the details as long as most of the frames are the highly detailed speculativly rendered one.
The algorithems for predicting which frames would be likely to be needed in the future would need quite a bit of tweaking.
Thanks for the response, it was informative.
It's a question.
It has generated some intelligent responses.
"Interesting" doesn't mean that it's smart. I never claimed to be smart. B^)
Thanks for the pointer to Grid.org, it was informative. That wasn't quite where I was going though, I was imagining that it might be possible to have this "cluster" type system act as a single desktop workstation and/or gaming rig.
I'm not imagining this specifically as a clustering solution, but as a way to put together a pseudo-multi-processor computer. The "tasks" in a gaming PC could be really intelligent enemies, speculative pre-rendering areas from multiple vantage points *before* the player enters them, and any other task that could enhance the experience but that needs more power than a regular gaming PC offers.
That said, yeah, building it into a browser (especially one which is designed to be lightweight) sounds dumb.
Is it possible that we could see a distributed OS where Firefox on one computer acts as an interface to multiple computers which act in concert to "simulate" a much more powerful machine?
No this would not be a beowulf cluster.
The maximum amount of processing power available to any one process would be limited to the fastest machine in the group, but it could be useful for anyone who can give thier computer difficult tasks faster than the computer can complete those tasks.
Every new task would be automatically given to whichever node has the lightest load.
It's really cool that one company does online reservations, SETI, and biochemistry.
It reminds me of three bumper stickers I've seen together on one car. "0-60 in five minutes", "This is not an abandoned vehicle", and "I'd rather be driving a Titlist".
Scrooge should have gave Cratchet more coal, he would have worked harder.
And the iMac wouldn't be but-ugly.
I was trying (and failing) to be funny.
Would it have been funnier if I hadn't RTFMed?
Nater is a Basketball player, Nader is a presidnetial candidate.
And they both have the same chances of becoming president.
National Public Radio Quake?
What about plastic?
Actially, the cheapest lens is probably a pinhole lens.