First I think this sounds like a wonderful project. The remainder of this post is dedicated to crazy ideas an dmaybe one interesting one. I want one or three.
Might want to consider setting up a site for people to register their interest and potential orders, not just how much you would pay for but actually get the orders.
I don't remember if it was successful, but Sony has done this in the past. I know it failed once due to (I believe) a weblogic crash due to too many orders or weak system.
If the website is mentioned every time a story appears on slashdot or some other site, you can continue to accumulate and update information. If you make transparent the financials behind it, people may rush in to get you over the threshold of a precalculated breakeven point (including reasonable profit of course).
Personally I am in the market for a graphics card in the next 6 months. I am planning on getting the best I can afford at the time, and am curious what this project might offer to sway me. Sure performance is not likely to beat the top of the line of the other competitors at the same price point.. at least that is what one would guess. Maybe not true? Well, the FPGA looks really cool.
Consider that the fastest supercomputer in the world is the GRAPE-6 (GRAvity PipE) built on FPGAs for simulation of gravitational interactions (of globular clusters, etc.).
I was thinking it might be closer to something insanely great if you go for the multiple channels now for example. Maybe if you ask about that on your site you'll get people to agree. (How much more would it cost? etc.).
Also I don't know what the FPGA would promise, presumably quick firmware updates from the net of course. Could part of it be used for another purpose, or is that too difficult? Could an additional FPGA be turned into a chip that runs linux (use it on a PC) or perhaps be flashed with the results of another project (I'd love to have a Perl chip.. make it and they will come?) Could another chip or expanded memory provide say a video wall controller with edge blending for multiple screens in realtime? This kind of thing alone might sell enough to make it useful. What do commercial image processors have that this couldn't?
I just saw a sexy video switching fabric thingy here
I am curious about what exact "X.org eye candy" this would enable. I am guessing some of:
"Direct Link for this comment Brilliant, and about time
By Bryan Kagnime (IP: ---.polarnet.ca) - Posted on 2004-11-28 08:23:43
I don't really care so much for the 3d gaming aspect, distribute with the card an opensource operating system like Slackware with some 2d desktop eyecandy (translucency/transparency/openGL) and I'll buy a card for everyone I know with a comp. This'll show users *what* linux is all about, distrobuting a superior product and opening the market share for innovators." ?
One post on osnews mentioned realtime encoding/decoding of video streams, and though I am not sure this would not still impact the rest of the machine considering the design, that sounds neat!
128MB is enough to hold a couple frames of 20 times the resolution of a 1024x768 screen and still have over 30 MB left over. What if it included support for edge/corner blending and warping for a video wall? Is it conceivable that this could take the output from a fast consumer card and provide 2D warping and other effects for displays using multiple projected patches? Consider what it is good at. How about talking over the network or other bus to other oss graphics cards for multiple projector support.
If some nonvolatile memory was included, the card could remember a video wall wallpaper and open window/document information, or keep some megapixel images or something else always available. Would this be useful, say for quick startup or as a backup for important memories?
How about selling with an external patchbay that can take many video sources and provi
Sounds like a great way to sabotage exploration, I recommend it is up to the people who move there.
There is one thing to consider though which is contamination. As far as I know this is well considered already. The point as mentioned in news recently is that contamination by hyrdrocarbons will throw off searches for life, and more importantly though not covered in much detail, is nuclear or heavy metal contamination.
Recently it is becoming better publicized that all we need are nuclear powered rockets and we can go and come from Mars comparatively quickly and easily. The point of course is that you don't want to contaminate the only water source for ten thousand miles (if there is one). This may become an important issue to resolve in the future.
This is really hilarious. They are expressly trying to use up the portion of bandwidth spammers *aren't using*, and getting everybody to install a Lycos screensaver! And they aren't even addressing the fact that a spam-serving network is undoubtedly well-resourced and has more heads than medusa. Hah! Too funny. Well except for anybody who happens to actually need bandwidth for non-spam purposes. It's like setting fire to a spider web, you just burn yourself out.
This is not a DoS (well it would be if it worked). It is just PR. Suddenly it got everbody saying "Lycos", front page on slashdot, etc., and it probably isn't even aimed at people who could figure out the problem. Most people will say great Lycos is taking a courageous stand, etc.
If Lycos was really serious about stopping spam, they should put the technical, managerial, and public relations resources they are dumping into this and go after the spammers one at a time. There are a finite number of people doing this in the world, and a corporation that wants to hunt them down can do it. Just follow the money, maybe buy some spam from these guys to confirm it. Then decide what to do about it. They might even consider posting a list of spammers, companies that profit from spam, and spam purchasers, on the net. Though that might make it hard to do subsequent investigations into spammers.
Well that's one thing they ought to do instead of this. Personally I think it would be better PR if they actually made some positive results in reducing spamming (with scientific proof) and publicized *that*. So this could maybe be called a half-assed DoS and a half-assed attempt at PR for mainstream technophiles, but on the whole it is just silly and wasteful. Thank god my fiber connection is nowhere near them.
I'll definitely study the wiki. I'm interested in using darcs as darcs, and also in the theory and how it came out of quantum reality concepts. I'm not about to write darcs in perl, but was intrigued with the possibility of accessing the theory side in perl for other applications than strictly controlling patches of source code for developers. Probably it would be more helpful to learn about how you came up with the theory itself than to actually try to implement something that tries to solve problems by talking to darcs. If I get anywhere in my thinking you'll be sure to hear from me again, but for now thank you very much and good luck!
Excellent link. Thank you very much! I also note belatedly that there is a link in the wiki about an emacs mode.
I don't know why they have marked my last two serious questions in threads as trolls, especially when I say this is not a troll. Is there a filter that makes everyone who says that a troll?? Sheesh. Of course if this reply is marked as a troll too then we know..
I haven't played these games so can't say for sure. But a similar problem happened to people in a planetarium that ran a demo (racing down a highway) meant for an ordinary screen. Apparently you get sick when you have lots of stuff racing on the sides of your peripheral vision (and presumably not locked to your body spatial sense, otherwise you would get sick just running).
A well lit room is good but possibly the game itself is fundamentally the culprit.
The previous poster who showed how easy it is to use darcs sold me, I am thinking it could be real useful right away just for my own work.
Took a brief look at the pretty site. Personally I've been intrigued by Haskell for a while though never jumped in, and I use Perl. My questions:
1. Can the elegant quantum reality inspired code be separated off? Though my take is that it is already separate, as a Haskell function.. the reason for the question is that it sounds like it would be useful for a whole lot of things. Instead of implementing app/protocol X over darcs, I am wondering if you could include an (inline) Haskell module in a Perl app that would do the rest.
1.5..or is there another way to access the Haskell theory of patches functionality from outside the app?
2. Next question, can Haskell be embedded inline in Perl code?
3. Can the quantum theory of patches be implemented as a Perl module, and ignoring the probably truth that anything not Haskell will not be as elegant as Haskell, would such an implementation benefit/be renedered possible by using the Perl functional or Quantum:: modules?
3.5 At risk of a flame war I'd love to use this in XEmacs. Anybody? This post written in vim so no flames please!
4. Reading about the symmetry or lack of it, concepts of physics this is helping me think about an app of my own. I'd like to read more about this does anyone have links?
I've done contracting (caveat: not in U.S. but with Americans/Canadians in management). The pay is higher but you may wait between jobs. Get an agreement of time frame (6 months?) to move you into full time position if they will agree to it. If you could get a guaranteed full time job that would be nice, but on the other hand if people want to make overseas outsourcing less attractive more of this may have to be swallowed. Now's the time you can explore before you have kids, but certainly I'd imagine you have more peace of mind working for a larger company. If being 10 miles away is a big concern then it is attractive I'm sure, but you aren't going to know how safe it is until you dive in.
(after the monthly bill of course with its submarined things in there)
Why mess around with the other free guys and use free software for free internet telephony on free free, why be open when you can be closed, why pay when you can be free? No, why be free when you can pay. Why? Because free. And we will go out of business shortly. Thanks for staying on the line.. someone please hang up the phone? It's free!
Mark me as a flame if you absolutely must, I just used up all my moderator points.
I'm now using WxPerl but just about to get into packaging with pp. But what I always wanted was 1) perl embedded in mozilla, and 2) an easy to use version of mozilla that would let me write and distribute perl programs cross platform, writing in XUL, using a XUL designer to lay it out first.
Well I don't think any of that every materialized but I'd say it would be a lot more useful than searching the desktop (is this an attempt to do better than M$ will?) and the entry of XULperl apps in cpan will make things very interesting. Make and ruby bindings too if you like. But I'm tired of hearing how Mozilla is the savior of all when it still takes a whole development team to do anything with it. (Apologies if I am too harsh and thinks have suddenly gotten better in the past year). Also, the mozilla calendar app could be seriously worked on too, it isn't ready for prime time (I tried.. ended up rolling own and using phpicalendar, no good uploader off osx yet, and too hard for newbies too, and only English last I checked) so I would put ICal and vcalendar compatible development higher priority. Great product though, I use firefox every day now since it is lighter than mozilla, and don't even mind when it flakes out with bugs nobody believes exist!
This Japanese page has some pictures of pits from April 2004 press release. It says Pioneer has codeveloped with its group company Pioneer FA an Electron Beam Recorder (EBR). The Laser Beam Recorder (LBR) of the past used UV or deep-UV light whereas the EBR uses an electron beam. It says it will be able to deal with not only Blu-Ray disks, but also hard disks as it can deal with discrete track media and pattern domains. So what this says is first of all, a UV laser is nothing new, but on the other hand I can't access the Nikkei article so I can't tell what's going on. The link above shows two photos, a 4.7GB older format versus a 50GB newer format written by the EBR.
Best argument for me to get a new machine with a spanking graphics card!
Would be cool if there was a bittorrent-like client to reduce traffic on main server. Hmm interesting.. you could have a P2P distributed terrain client keyed to resolution, updatable via some kind of trusted annotation.
Well anyway you know that "for the life of the project" just isn't going to be enough for most geeks and so the first 10 will swamp the server.. A good time for a t
But they forgot Spongebob Squarepants! Or.. hmm I'm not sure if it's funny or not, he talks really dumb, but there are non sequiturs for adults sprinkled in so the brain doesn't go to jelly when playing with kids. Though it is kinda nice as an environment to be in.. So I think there is something in common between the world created for Spongebob and the world of Nights (anyone remember?) the Sega game where you fly and do aerial acrobatics - lovely music and you can just toodle around without any goal necessary.
The infocom stuff was great, and with humor and mystery, since writers were involved at least as much as programmers (unbelievable but true I would expect).
Okay, how about a game where you are a clueless geek with an Internet connection. The entire society is on the brink with a presidential election, but the bought media lock out most of the challengers. Your task is to find their websites, download torrents of interviews with them on CSPAN, and launch a net campaign to get at least either your local politician or a challenger in the election to win, you have to fight your way past all kinds of gaffes, explosions in Iraq, Osama home movies, etc. etc. that would might strike some twisted people as humorous. Oh wait.. nevermind.
Maybe they aren't funny because the comics get paid for stage and tv but it costs too much to make a video game so nobody with a sense of humor is left anymore? So what is the current equivalent of "You are about to be eaten by a GRUE!" ?!?!
Many of the things sighed about are in Japan too, though I don't know where they originated. Best new idea I saw was city-supplied free exercise machinery located outdoors nearby. You could tell a lot about the character of a city about what they look like too - I'd like to think New York would do a good job on it but they would probably be made of massive, grungy steel tubing and molded plastic seats, so you couldn't hijack if you wanted to, like the inside of NYC subways. Japanese ones would probably have too many lcd gadgets and might run an electrical current through your buns to check your body fat level. Article makes me want to go check it out in China myself though!
Thank you very much for your detailed, informative, and warm letter. Has to be the first or second time I ever got marked as a troll which is funny since mine was an honest question and post. I wonder how ordinary people make up their minds wihout slashdot:) thanks.
Well that decided it for me (not kidding). I was solidly anti-Bush until I talked (well, one-way listened) to my folks who are Republicans but sick of Bush too. They think Kerry is terrible, that he has never done a single useful thing in his political career, which he built entirely on 4 months of military service, etc. Wow! I didn't hear anything about that from my ordinary Internet and newspaper trawling, and yet this is basically a nice suburb of NYC. Shook me a little have to say it. Made me think maybe you have to be a little nasty and do this sort of thing to get into high office in the U.S. and stay there. Some other unflattering thoughts. Also some other chunks about slanted media which is getting particularly irksome for a lot of people apparently.
But this? It makes me realize that no matter what the other guy might be, he is neither a demagogue (or not as much so), nor stupid (or at least not as much so), and so my new choice is to find me an absentee ballot for my first overseas ballot (first voting ever actually) and to pick which of the other guys it will be.
I was entranced by the coldly mathematical yet interesting libertarian candidate (he strikes me as wonderfully fresh and honest, though I am starting to think he may be at least partially insane). Most interesting there was I only know about him from slashdot and a one hour stream (I think it was maybe a torrent) from his interview on I think CNN.
I guess I have a responsibility to look for sites of other candidates (preferably torrents of interviews so I can get a good idea of what they are like) and try to get some diverging opinions from people so I can make up my mind.
I recently got fiber and it was sheer nerd ecstasy to meet the 2 young technician dudes who came to install the fiber. (I recently got it from TEPCO, the Tokyo municipal power company). Wh00t!
Be sure to get real close and look over the older guy's shoulder when he nonchalantly whips out his *fiber to fiber microtome and splicer* or whatever that little mechanism is called in the hard case he'll be looking a level place for.
It is amazing how totally thin the fiber itself is (on the order of a hair). It is brittle apparently because you can't bend it more than 90 degrees within like 4 or 5 inches or so. But it apparently will go right into your skin if you don't watch out. Has happened often he says, I look at him in a new light. This is not some shmuck in workpants, he's a hero!
Look inside the box, you will likely note that the guts only take up like a third of it, the rest of the volume is totally empty, just space for a few coils of fiber to sit safely.
Anyway I have 100 megabit but have not successfully maxed it yet. They say I ought to be able to get theoretically up to 50 mbps and maybe practically half that again, but it also depends on your client and server. You need cpu and memory to handle enough connections to max it out, or maybe just one mother of a server somewhere. I have never gotten above 5 mbps, but have high hopes for the future. Please mention if you know a site that can do something in that realm.
Well I surfed and unfortunately it looks like I was denied this classic in school. Says it was the most popular book (and film) ever or close to it. Anyway, there is a huge list of external reviews at imdb and according to this one, the film at least and maybe the book for all I know glorify marital rape. Who'd a thunk? I wonder how hard it would be for a concerted email bomb^H^H^H^H writing campaign to get this book and maybe film banned from schools and maybe libraries and rental? Seems for the U.S., revisionism is only the next step, and if books are already being banned in one state or another why not add one that is so richly deserving, seeing as how its owners wish it to be so hard to find. I don't know if it is supposed to be a parody or a snapshot of the time (since I haven't read it yet, doh) but this case is just way over the top. Now they want to stop the Internet, better call Al Gore.
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin, square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel, starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends. Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin--that skin so prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets, veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the porch of Tara, her father's plantation, that bright April afternoon of 1861, she made a pretty picture. Her new green flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta. The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed breasts well matured for her sixteen years. But for all the modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed. The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were her own.
Hey! this looks kind of racy for an American classic! Maybe I'll read it for free and save myself a 6000 mile trip to the nearest U.S. public library. Reading's more fun than boycotting..
As other posters mentioned this would be fantastic if it was mainly a very hefty FPGA system that happens to have direct video output. I want one to be my "perl chip" and the other to accelerate astronomical simulations. Another (okay I'll buy 3 ??) could provide additional memory and filters with oss software that provides cinematic transitions or other support that would let linux offload to the fast board work like Apple's new Core stuff. Personally I'd also like to have one with several outputs for projectors, maybe with some nice edge blending for extra points. Would also be very nice if they could add some camera inputs and some dsps for some structured light projectors / sensors I want. There are tons of things that would be useful without necessarily implementing all of OpenGL.
Touche. Though cows have smaller brains and spend their days eating cud and staring, while whales apparently sing complex songs and communicate across the entire globe. And dolphins are positively playful and very sensitive to humans, including helping distressed or mentally handicapped people in the water.
Also I have tasted whale and to tell you the truth it gets me sick and that is not even considering the ethics of it. Unless you are brought up eating it, contemporary economies just don't need it. Japan continues whaling under the heading of experimentation, but just a week ago there was a story of a highschool that went out of its way to create a whale menu for its kids so they could keep the tradition of eating whalemeat alive. I'll be interested to see what the whales have to say when we finally learn how to talk to them. No hard feelings, !crunch! My 2 cents.
Tell your whale-eating friends this when you find out. Might be only way to convince whale-eating (or porpoise-eating) countries that species who eat similar species with much bigger brains are not considered particularly intelligent or worthy of sympathy by advanced civilizations. Compared using brute force methods, we are outranked by flowers. So subtlety and sensitivity are key.
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Might want to consider setting up a site for people to register their interest and potential orders, not just how much you would pay for but actually get the orders.
I don't remember if it was successful, but Sony has done this in the past. I know it failed once due to (I believe) a weblogic crash due to too many orders or weak system.
If the website is mentioned every time a story appears on slashdot or some other site, you can continue to accumulate and update information. If you make transparent the financials behind it, people may rush in to get you over the threshold of a precalculated breakeven point (including reasonable profit of course).
Personally I am in the market for a graphics card in the next 6 months. I am planning on getting the best I can afford at the time, and am curious what this project might offer to sway me. Sure performance is not likely to beat the top of the line of the other competitors at the same price point.. at least that is what one would guess. Maybe not true? Well, the FPGA looks really cool.
Consider that the fastest supercomputer in the world is the GRAPE-6 (GRAvity PipE) built on FPGAs for simulation of gravitational interactions (of globular clusters, etc.).
I was thinking it might be closer to something insanely great if you go for the multiple channels now for example. Maybe if you ask about that on your site you'll get people to agree. (How much more would it cost? etc.).
Also I don't know what the FPGA would promise, presumably quick firmware updates from the net of course. Could part of it be used for another purpose, or is that too difficult? Could an additional FPGA be turned into a chip that runs linux (use it on a PC) or perhaps be flashed with the results of another project (I'd love to have a Perl chip.. make it and they will come?) Could another chip or expanded memory provide say a video wall controller with edge blending for multiple screens in realtime? This kind of thing alone might sell enough to make it useful. What do commercial image processors have that this couldn't?
I just saw a sexy video switching fabric thingy here
I am curious about what exact "X.org eye candy" this would enable. I am guessing some of: "Direct Link for this comment Brilliant, and about time By Bryan Kagnime (IP: ---.polarnet.ca) - Posted on 2004-11-28 08:23:43 I don't really care so much for the 3d gaming aspect, distribute with the card an opensource operating system like Slackware with some 2d desktop eyecandy (translucency/transparency/openGL) and I'll buy a card for everyone I know with a comp. This'll show users *what* linux is all about, distrobuting a superior product and opening the market share for innovators." ?
One post on osnews mentioned realtime encoding/decoding of video streams, and though I am not sure this would not still impact the rest of the machine considering the design, that sounds neat!
128MB is enough to hold a couple frames of 20 times the resolution of a 1024x768 screen and still have over 30 MB left over. What if it included support for edge/corner blending and warping for a video wall? Is it conceivable that this could take the output from a fast consumer card and provide 2D warping and other effects for displays using multiple projected patches? Consider what it is good at. How about talking over the network or other bus to other oss graphics cards for multiple projector support.
If some nonvolatile memory was included, the card could remember a video wall wallpaper and open window/document information, or keep some megapixel images or something else always available. Would this be useful, say for quick startup or as a backup for important memories?
How about selling with an external patchbay that can take many video sources and provi
Sounds like a great way to sabotage exploration, I recommend it is up to the people who move there.
There is one thing to consider though which is contamination. As far as I know this is well considered already. The point as mentioned in news recently is that contamination by hyrdrocarbons will throw off searches for life, and more importantly though not covered in much detail, is nuclear or heavy metal contamination.
Recently it is becoming better publicized that all we need are nuclear powered rockets and we can go and come from Mars comparatively quickly and easily. The point of course is that you don't want to contaminate the only water source for ten thousand miles (if there is one). This may become an important issue to resolve in the future.
This is really hilarious. They are expressly trying to use up the portion of bandwidth spammers *aren't using*, and getting everybody to install a Lycos screensaver! And they aren't even addressing the fact that a spam-serving network is undoubtedly well-resourced and has more heads than medusa. Hah! Too funny. Well except for anybody who happens to actually need bandwidth for non-spam purposes. It's like setting fire to a spider web, you just burn yourself out.
This is not a DoS (well it would be if it worked). It is just PR. Suddenly it got everbody saying "Lycos", front page on slashdot, etc., and it probably isn't even aimed at people who could figure out the problem. Most people will say great Lycos is taking a courageous stand, etc.
If Lycos was really serious about stopping spam, they should put the technical, managerial, and public relations resources they are dumping into this and go after the spammers one at a time. There are a finite number of people doing this in the world, and a corporation that wants to hunt them down can do it. Just follow the money, maybe buy some spam from these guys to confirm it. Then decide what to do about it. They might even consider posting a list of spammers, companies that profit from spam, and spam purchasers, on the net. Though that might make it hard to do subsequent investigations into spammers.
Well that's one thing they ought to do instead of this. Personally I think it would be better PR if they actually made some positive results in reducing spamming (with scientific proof) and publicized *that*. So this could maybe be called a half-assed DoS and a half-assed attempt at PR for mainstream technophiles, but on the whole it is just silly and wasteful. Thank god my fiber connection is nowhere near them.
Thank you *very* much for your responses!!
I'll definitely study the wiki. I'm interested in using darcs as darcs, and also in the theory and how it came out of quantum reality concepts. I'm not about to write darcs in perl, but was intrigued with the possibility of accessing the theory side in perl for other applications than strictly controlling patches of source code for developers. Probably it would be more helpful to learn about how you came up with the theory itself than to actually try to implement something that tries to solve problems by talking to darcs. If I get anywhere in my thinking you'll be sure to hear from me again, but for now thank you very much and good luck!
Excellent link. Thank you very much! I also note belatedly that there is a link in the wiki about an emacs mode.
I don't know why they have marked my last two serious questions in threads as trolls, especially when I say this is not a troll. Is there a filter that makes everyone who says that a troll?? Sheesh. Of course if this reply is marked as a troll too then we know..
I haven't played these games so can't say for sure. But a similar problem happened to people in a planetarium that ran a demo (racing down a highway) meant for an ordinary screen. Apparently you get sick when you have lots of stuff racing on the sides of your peripheral vision (and presumably not locked to your body spatial sense, otherwise you would get sick just running).
A well lit room is good but possibly the game itself is fundamentally the culprit.
Silly me I clicked on the "your blood will run cold" link and got sucked into the vortex.
That was a really good one, pretty scary. It is just night here now and I started looking out the dark window as a chill crawled up my back. Yikes!
The previous poster who showed how easy it is to use darcs sold me, I am thinking it could be real useful
..or is there another way to access the Haskell theory of patches functionality from outside the app?
right away just for my own work.
Took a brief look at the pretty site. Personally I've been intrigued by Haskell for a while though never jumped in, and I use Perl. My questions:
1. Can the elegant quantum reality inspired code be separated off? Though my take is that it is already separate, as a Haskell function.. the reason for the question is that it sounds like it would be useful for a whole lot of things. Instead of implementing app/protocol X over darcs, I am wondering if you could include an (inline) Haskell module in a Perl app that would do the rest.
1.5
2. Next question, can Haskell be embedded inline in Perl code?
3. Can the quantum theory of patches be implemented as a Perl module, and ignoring the probably truth that anything not Haskell will not be as elegant as Haskell, would such an implementation benefit/be renedered possible by using the Perl functional or Quantum:: modules?
3.5 At risk of a flame war I'd love to use this in XEmacs. Anybody? This post written in vim so no flames please!
4. Reading about the symmetry or lack of it, concepts of physics this is helping me think about an app of my own. I'd like to read more about this does anyone have links?
5. Time to learn Haskell!! Great!
I've done contracting (caveat: not in U.S. but with Americans/Canadians in management). The pay is higher but you may wait between jobs. Get an agreement of time frame (6 months?) to move you into full time position if they will agree to it. If you could get a guaranteed full time job that would be nice, but on the other hand if people want to make overseas outsourcing less attractive more of this may have to be swallowed. Now's the time you can explore before you have kids, but certainly I'd imagine you have more peace of mind working for a larger company. If being 10 miles away is a big concern then it is attractive I'm sure, but you aren't going to know how safe it is until you dive in.
(after the monthly bill of course with its submarined things in there)
Why mess around with the other free guys and use free software for free internet telephony on free free, why be open when you can be closed, why pay when you can be free? No, why be free when you can pay. Why? Because free. And we will go out of business shortly. Thanks for staying on the line.. someone please hang up the phone? It's free!
Mark me as a flame if you absolutely must, I just used up all my moderator points.
I'm now using WxPerl but just about to get into packaging with pp. But what I always wanted was 1) perl embedded in mozilla, and 2) an easy to use version of mozilla that would let me write and distribute perl programs cross platform, writing in XUL, using a XUL designer to lay it out first.
Well I don't think any of that every materialized but I'd say it would be a lot more useful than searching the desktop (is this an attempt to do better than M$ will?) and the entry of XULperl apps in cpan will make things very interesting. Make and ruby bindings too if you like. But I'm tired of hearing how Mozilla is the savior of all when it still takes a whole development team to do anything with it. (Apologies if I am too harsh and thinks have suddenly gotten better in the past year). Also, the mozilla calendar app could be seriously worked on too, it isn't ready for prime time (I tried.. ended up rolling own and using phpicalendar, no good uploader off osx yet, and too hard for newbies too, and only English last I checked) so I would put ICal and vcalendar compatible development higher priority. Great product though, I use firefox every day now since it is lighter than mozilla, and don't even mind when it flakes out with bugs nobody believes exist!
This Japanese page has some pictures of pits from April 2004 press release. It says Pioneer has codeveloped with its group company Pioneer FA an Electron Beam Recorder (EBR). The Laser Beam Recorder (LBR) of the past used UV or deep-UV light whereas the EBR uses an electron beam. It says it will be able to deal with not only Blu-Ray disks, but also hard disks as it can deal with discrete track media and pattern domains. So what this says is first of all, a UV laser is nothing new, but on the other hand I can't access the Nikkei article so I can't tell what's going on. The link above shows two photos, a 4.7GB older format versus a 50GB newer format written by the EBR.
..for a torrent?
Best argument for me to get a new machine with a spanking graphics card!
Would be cool if there was a bittorrent-like client to reduce traffic on main server. Hmm interesting.. you could have a P2P distributed terrain client keyed to resolution, updatable via some kind of trusted annotation.
Well anyway you know that "for the life of the project" just isn't going to be enough for most geeks and so the first 10 will swamp the server.. A good time for a t
But they forgot Spongebob Squarepants! Or.. hmm I'm not sure if it's funny or not, he talks really dumb, but there are non sequiturs for adults sprinkled in so the brain doesn't go to jelly when playing with kids. Though it is kinda nice as an environment to be in.. So I think there is something in common between the world created for Spongebob and the world of Nights (anyone remember?) the Sega game where you fly and do aerial acrobatics - lovely music and you can just toodle around without any goal necessary.
The infocom stuff was great, and with humor and mystery, since writers were involved at least as much as programmers (unbelievable but true I would expect).
Okay, how about a game where you are a clueless geek with an Internet connection. The entire society is on the brink with a presidential election, but the bought media lock out most of the challengers. Your task is to find their websites, download torrents of interviews with them on CSPAN, and launch a net campaign to get at least either your local politician or a challenger in the election to win, you have to fight your way past all kinds of gaffes, explosions in Iraq, Osama home movies, etc. etc. that would might strike some twisted people as humorous. Oh wait.. nevermind.
Maybe they aren't funny because the comics get paid for stage and tv but it costs too much to make a video game so nobody with a sense of humor is left anymore? So what is the current equivalent of "You are about to be eaten by a GRUE!" ?!?!
Many of the things sighed about are in Japan too, though I don't know where they originated. Best new idea I saw was city-supplied free exercise machinery located outdoors nearby. You could tell a lot about the character of a city about what they look like too - I'd like to think New York would do a good job on it but they would probably be made of massive, grungy steel tubing and molded plastic seats, so you couldn't hijack if you wanted to, like the inside of NYC subways. Japanese ones would probably have too many lcd gadgets and might run an electrical current through your buns to check your body fat level. Article makes me want to go check it out in China myself though!
Thank you very much for your detailed, informative, and warm letter. Has to be the first or second time I ever got marked as a troll which is funny since mine was an honest question and post. I wonder how ordinary people make up their minds wihout slashdot :) thanks.
Matt
Lightspeed Pascal on my Mac SE was able to compile into p-code my programs so quickly it was imperceptible. Granted they were not so long..
But this? It makes me realize that no matter what the other guy might be, he is neither a demagogue (or not as much so), nor stupid (or at least not as much so), and so my new choice is to find me an absentee ballot for my first overseas ballot (first voting ever actually) and to pick which of the other guys it will be.
I was entranced by the coldly mathematical yet interesting libertarian candidate (he strikes me as wonderfully fresh and honest, though I am starting to think he may be at least partially insane). Most interesting there was I only know about him from slashdot and a one hour stream (I think it was maybe a torrent) from his interview on I think CNN.
I guess I have a responsibility to look for sites of other candidates (preferably torrents of interviews so I can get a good idea of what they are like) and try to get some diverging opinions from people so I can make up my mind.
I recently got fiber and it was sheer nerd ecstasy to meet the 2 young technician dudes who came to install the fiber. (I recently got it from TEPCO, the Tokyo municipal power company). Wh00t!
Be sure to get real close and look over the older guy's shoulder when he nonchalantly whips out his *fiber to fiber microtome and splicer* or whatever that little mechanism is called in the hard case he'll be looking a level place for.
It is amazing how totally thin the fiber itself is (on the order of a hair). It is brittle apparently because you can't bend it more than 90 degrees within like 4 or 5 inches or so. But it apparently will go right into your skin if you don't watch out. Has happened often he says, I look at him in a new light. This is not some shmuck in workpants, he's a hero!
Look inside the box, you will likely note that the guts only take up like a third of it, the rest of the volume is totally empty, just space for a few coils of fiber to sit safely.
Anyway I have 100 megabit but have not successfully maxed it yet. They say I ought to be able to get theoretically up to 50 mbps and maybe practically half that again, but it also depends on your client and server. You need cpu and memory to handle enough connections to max it out, or maybe just one mother of a server somewhere. I have never gotten above 5 mbps, but have high hopes for the future. Please mention if you know a site that can do something in that realm.
Well I surfed and unfortunately it looks like I was denied this classic in school. Says it was the most popular book (and film) ever or close to it. Anyway, there is a huge list of external reviews at imdb
and according to this one, the film at least and maybe the book for all I know glorify marital rape. Who'd a thunk?
I wonder how hard it would be for a concerted email bomb^H^H^H^H writing campaign to get this book and maybe film banned from schools and maybe libraries and rental? Seems for the U.S., revisionism is only the next step, and if books are already being banned in one state or another why not add one that is so richly deserving, seeing as how its owners wish it to be so hard to find. I don't know if it is supposed to be a parody or a snapshot of the time (since I haven't read it yet, doh) but this case is just way over the top. Now they want to stop the Internet, better call Al Gore.
Thought I would pick it up before it went offline, but the link didn't work. Yours was useful. Unlike
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CHAPTER I
Scarlett O'Hara was not beautiful, but men seldom realized it when
caught by her charm as the Tarleton twins were. In her face were
too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast
aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid
Irish father. But it was an arresting face, pointed of chin,
square of jaw. Her eyes were pale green without a touch of hazel,
starred with bristly black lashes and slightly tilted at the ends.
Above them, her thick black brows slanted upward, cutting a
startling oblique line in her magnolia-white skin--that skin so
prized by Southern women and so carefully guarded with bonnets,
veils and mittens against hot Georgia suns.
Seated with Stuart and Brent Tarleton in the cool shade of the
porch of Tara, her father's plantation, that bright April
afternoon of 1861, she made a pretty picture. Her new green
flowered-muslin dress spread its twelve yards of billowing
material over her hoops and exactly matched the flat-heeled green
morocco slippers her father had recently brought her from Atlanta.
The dress set off to perfection the seventeen-inch waist, the
smallest in three counties, and the tightly fitting basque showed
breasts well matured for her sixteen years. But for all the
modesty of her spreading skirts, the demureness of hair netted
smoothly into a chignon and the quietness of small white hands
folded in her lap, her true self was poorly concealed. The green
eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty
with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor.
Her manners had been imposed upon her by her mother's gentle
admonitions and the sterner discipline of her mammy; her eyes were
her own.
Hey! this looks kind of racy for an American classic! Maybe I'll read it for free and save myself a 6000 mile trip to the nearest U.S. public library. Reading's more fun than boycotting..
As other posters mentioned this would be fantastic if it was mainly a very hefty FPGA system that happens to have direct video output. I want one to be my "perl chip" and the other to accelerate astronomical simulations. Another (okay I'll buy 3 ??) could provide additional memory and filters with oss software that provides cinematic transitions or other support that would let linux offload to the fast board work like Apple's new Core stuff. Personally I'd also like to have one with several outputs for projectors, maybe with some nice edge blending for extra points. Would also be very nice if they could add some camera inputs and some dsps for some structured light projectors / sensors I want. There are tons of things that would be useful without necessarily implementing all of OpenGL.
Also I have tasted whale and to tell you the truth it gets me sick and that is not even considering the ethics of it. Unless you are brought up eating it, contemporary economies just don't need it. Japan continues whaling under the heading of experimentation, but just a week ago there was a story of a highschool that went out of its way to create a whale menu for its kids so they could keep the tradition of eating whalemeat alive. I'll be interested to see what the whales have to say when we finally learn how to talk to them. No hard feelings, !crunch! My 2 cents.
Tell your whale-eating friends this when you find out. Might be only way to convince whale-eating (or porpoise-eating) countries that species who eat similar species with much bigger brains are not considered particularly intelligent or worthy of sympathy by advanced civilizations. Compared using brute force methods, we are outranked by flowers. So subtlety and sensitivity are key.