I like the way you use necessary/sufficient, the scientific/philosophical/kantian one;-) I agree with your first paragraph.
For the second paragraph, well, I know some about how works the ADSL version of the DSL (I pay ADSL monthly), i.e. the most far you're to the DSLAM-ATM bridge, the lower speed you get. Anyway, you could get 128Kbps being from 2 to 8/10Km from the comms station (not a very atractive product, I know); if it is not enough, well, there are things called signal repeaters. For sure it could be not such a great speed, but far better than the switched phone network used for 56k modems.
Wrong. I live in the EU, in a 2 million people urban location (nearby Barcelona, Spain), paying 45 euro/month per 1024/320Kbps ADSL line (static IP, it could cost 30 euro/month for dynamic IP for the same 1Mbps).
Spain seems to have pirated Holland legislation in this case too: it is legal to download pirate music but illegal to share it. Then, is it or isn't it completely non sense?! (wrong legislation... by defective construction!)
Yes, it is true. Still running at ~300MHz (294MHz), the PS2 achieves a great paralelism grade: R5900 @300MHz, 2xVU's @300MHz; the whole thing is able to perform 10 FMACs per clock cycle, while 1 FMAC is equal to 2 FLOPS (floating point multiply + acumulate), then you have 20 FLOPS/cycle @~300MHz gives about 6 GFLOPS. There is no secret, you can prove the performance by yourself using the Linux kit available for the PS2, but remember, if you want to reach the 6 GFLOPS... using the gcc isn't enough, you have to deal with the assembly for the VU's.
Obviously, the https involves both SERVER and client hability, and slashdot does not provide a https service.
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Take it easy, my fine friend. I have no time to lose by using MS products, simply I don't need them. If MS wants to enhance his products, better they pay for it, while deciding which betatest for free, I do that related to open source initiatives.
The phrase "capable of reading and understanding text" it is not a yes/no problem, as still as humans, not everybody can say 'I understand X completely', it is nonsense. Current AI it is capable of **reading** text with high precision, and **understanding** it at a still low/poor level. For me, understanding is related to information contextualization/contrast and analysis, being a first step for answering further questions related to the previously retrieved information.
Quoting Confucious, If you can not wait for something to be done by others, try by doing it yourself first.
That could be enhanced easily by using the https protocol, as still the observer will know both IP and protocol (https), the URL data will be encrypted. That is a quite practical approach for most cases; anyway, if you're in a higher paranoic level, you always have ways for full encrypted data tunneling.
Buddie, some people doesn't understand your humor sense. Err, wait, I trapped myself talking to myself *again*. I will finish my autoconversation in other ocasion, better ran to visit the psycoanalyst. Sorry for the inconvenience. Arg! Dub dub.
Dear François,
Your IP will be treated with a deep love, as usual. IP-banning was, and will continue, due to the fact that we love both you and your IP. There's nothing related to money.
Kind regards,
Another one Anonymous Coward
IBM wants to bite the desktop microprocessor market, it is obvious. Despite their OS/2 attempt, they may be luckier with a hardware assault. Anyway, pushing by hardware battle it is not only good for the usr, but for the market too.
Anyway, I'm sad to see a legal litigation, I preffer engeneering competition.
?! Please, don't misunderstand me, my parents got me a humanistic education, then, for me, a human is a human, with paying no attention where he/she lives. I do not became "humanist" by fear, but by a clean -and I hope I'm honest with myself- desire for welfare and dignity for every single person, despite his color or religion (in case he/she has).
Think about your second paragraph, still anonymous, I can feel hate in your words. Don't think other people as the "enemy", people is just people: feeling pain, fear, etc. just like you and I. Best regads.
Sorry, but I can not see any intelectual differences between a human from India and other from "western nations" or from any other point of the world. May be your intentions are good or enthusiastic, but your argumentation it is weak by design.
My best wishes to every single human in the world. I hope some day we'll live as one;-)
Amen, brother. I will continue giving for free my spare time for the Linux comunity via GPL. The GPL itself it is strong enough to make inviable porting GPLed applications then some patented code from Sun has to be added for any reason.
Still Solaris it is quite cool (still I prefer gcc than CC), may be it is too late for a Solaris, at least for my spare time: I feel better running Linux, still not a perfect OS -as Solaris isn't-, it is enough for bringing lot of joy to my lonely but savage heart:-)
Sorry, I know he has done a tremendous amount for the community, but no where near what Linus has.
It is your opinion about Richard and Linus. I don't agree.
About Sun, I hope that they do that for good, anyway, IMO, software patent strategies may be a big problem for introducing Linux into the mainstream. These big raptors^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcompanies target is to kill Linux as an alternative before it reaches its critical mass. Fortunately, Linux has critical mass enough, as many microelectronics companies are pushig for it. Needless to say that IBM, for its services division are doing tons of money by using Linux.
May be, in the end, the only that could "save" Linux in the mainstream are the big corp lawyers with interests related to the **true** open source community. Please note that I do not want to see RMS as the "final guru" or a "GNU bishop", he is a man, has a voice, and you can agree or not with him. You'll be freeeeee (just kidding about the "GNU/FSF himn", sorry);-)
I mean:
chemical environment: a chemical fab, where products are tested periodically taking samples from the pipes (real-time), for ensuring the quality of the product, et al.
industrial environment: production plant scheduling, both using petri nets and neural nets for automatic tool optimum usage (above 90%).
If neural nets (aka "artificial neuronal nets") work ok for your purposes, it's ok for me too. I had to deal with complex neural nets years ago, being deprecapted as results were, by far, worse than those given by an expert system (propositional -and/or fuzzy- logic, inference), as the "knowledge storage capacity" for a given neural net structure was, simply, not enough. The problem was that as a "evaluation functions" the neural nets were very good, but had "narrow vision", i.e. acting much as greedy algorithms, reaching local minimums and maximums by not being capable of "focus wider". Anyway, I do assume that was **my** fault, but by using current "state of the art" neural net technology, nowdays, you have to work with clear limits.
I was talking about **gaming**. In both chemical and industrial environments, and other areas, neural nets are giving good results, where the target is to get a quick interpolated/extrapolated response. Nowdays, there is no neural net capable of abstraction (to rebate, please, just give me one prove).
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Well, should be kind to add that in the AMD 64 bit mode there are many new general purpose registers available to the compiler.
As Columbo could argue, this the interview is precooked, seems to me a mere excuse for saying 'Hey, don't hate us, we're still good boys'. Pathetic.
I like the way you use necessary/sufficient, the scientific/philosophical/kantian one ;-) I agree with your first paragraph.
For the second paragraph, well, I know some about how works the ADSL version of the DSL (I pay ADSL monthly), i.e. the most far you're to the DSLAM-ATM bridge, the lower speed you get. Anyway, you could get 128Kbps being from 2 to 8/10Km from the comms station (not a very atractive product, I know); if it is not enough, well, there are things called signal repeaters. For sure it could be not such a great speed, but far better than the switched phone network used for 56k modems.
Depends on the EU country, here, in Spain we're quite unlucky on broadband terms.
Do people in Wyoming have phone lines? Yes? Ok, then they're able to get somewhat type of *DSL service (QED). There is no excuse.
Wrong. I live in the EU, in a 2 million people urban location (nearby Barcelona, Spain), paying 45 euro/month per 1024/320Kbps ADSL line (static IP, it could cost 30 euro/month for dynamic IP for the same 1Mbps).
It's the market, my fine friend.
Remember than hard disk magnetic media operating life is usually much greater than FLASH/EEPROM technologies.
Spain seems to have pirated Holland legislation in this case too: it is legal to download pirate music but illegal to share it. Then, is it or isn't it completely non sense?! (wrong legislation... by defective construction!)
Where I live (Spain) we have a quite similar scenario, unfortunately.
Yes, it is true. Still running at ~300MHz (294MHz), the PS2 achieves a great paralelism grade: R5900 @300MHz, 2xVU's @300MHz; the whole thing is able to perform 10 FMACs per clock cycle, while 1 FMAC is equal to 2 FLOPS (floating point multiply + acumulate), then you have 20 FLOPS/cycle @~300MHz gives about 6 GFLOPS. There is no secret, you can prove the performance by yourself using the Linux kit available for the PS2, but remember, if you want to reach the 6 GFLOPS... using the gcc isn't enough, you have to deal with the assembly for the VU's.
Obviously, the https involves both SERVER and client hability, and slashdot does not provide a https service.
Take it easy, my fine friend. I have no time to lose by using MS products, simply I don't need them. If MS wants to enhance his products, better they pay for it, while deciding which betatest for free, I do that related to open source initiatives.
You're lucky, where I work:
;-)
-I have to pay the coffee
-No free doughnuts at all
-No mug/hat/pen with company logo
Oh dear, I would be so happy with a corporative hat
The phrase "capable of reading and understanding text" it is not a yes/no problem, as still as humans, not everybody can say 'I understand X completely', it is nonsense. Current AI it is capable of **reading** text with high precision, and **understanding** it at a still low/poor level. For me, understanding is related to information contextualization/contrast and analysis, being a first step for answering further questions related to the previously retrieved information.
Quoting Confucious, If you can not wait for something to be done by others, try by doing it yourself first.
That could be enhanced easily by using the https protocol, as still the observer will know both IP and protocol (https), the URL data will be encrypted. That is a quite practical approach for most cases; anyway, if you're in a higher paranoic level, you always have ways for full encrypted data tunneling.
Buddie, some people doesn't understand your humor sense. Err, wait, I trapped myself talking to myself *again*. I will finish my autoconversation in other ocasion, better ran to visit the psycoanalyst. Sorry for the inconvenience. Arg! Dub dub.
Dear François, Your IP will be treated with a deep love, as usual. IP-banning was, and will continue, due to the fact that we love both you and your IP. There's nothing related to money. Kind regards, Another one Anonymous Coward
IBM wants to bite the desktop microprocessor market, it is obvious. Despite their OS/2 attempt, they may be luckier with a hardware assault. Anyway, pushing by hardware battle it is not only good for the usr, but for the market too.
Anyway, I'm sad to see a legal litigation, I preffer engeneering competition.
Yes, and I love it for this ;-)
?! Please, don't misunderstand me, my parents got me a humanistic education, then, for me, a human is a human, with paying no attention where he/she lives. I do not became "humanist" by fear, but by a clean -and I hope I'm honest with myself- desire for welfare and dignity for every single person, despite his color or religion (in case he/she has).
Think about your second paragraph, still anonymous, I can feel hate in your words. Don't think other people as the "enemy", people is just people: feeling pain, fear, etc. just like you and I. Best regads.
Sorry, but I can not see any intelectual differences between a human from India and other from "western nations" or from any other point of the world. May be your intentions are good or enthusiastic, but your argumentation it is weak by design.
;-)
My best wishes to every single human in the world. I hope some day we'll live as one
Amen, brother. I will continue giving for free my spare time for the Linux comunity via GPL. The GPL itself it is strong enough to make inviable porting GPLed applications then some patented code from Sun has to be added for any reason.
:-)
Still Solaris it is quite cool (still I prefer gcc than CC), may be it is too late for a Solaris, at least for my spare time: I feel better running Linux, still not a perfect OS -as Solaris isn't-, it is enough for bringing lot of joy to my lonely but savage heart
Sorry, I know he has done a tremendous amount for the community, but no where near what Linus has.
;-)
It is your opinion about Richard and Linus. I don't agree.
About Sun, I hope that they do that for good, anyway, IMO, software patent strategies may be a big problem for introducing Linux into the mainstream. These big raptors^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hcompanies target is to kill Linux as an alternative before it reaches its critical mass. Fortunately, Linux has critical mass enough, as many microelectronics companies are pushig for it. Needless to say that IBM, for its services division are doing tons of money by using Linux.
May be, in the end, the only that could "save" Linux in the mainstream are the big corp lawyers with interests related to the **true** open source community. Please note that I do not want to see RMS as the "final guru" or a "GNU bishop", he is a man, has a voice, and you can agree or not with him. You'll be freeeeee (just kidding about the "GNU/FSF himn", sorry)
I mean:
chemical environment: a chemical fab, where products are tested periodically taking samples from the pipes (real-time), for ensuring the quality of the product, et al.
industrial environment: production plant scheduling, both using petri nets and neural nets for automatic tool optimum usage (above 90%).
If neural nets (aka "artificial neuronal nets") work ok for your purposes, it's ok for me too. I had to deal with complex neural nets years ago, being deprecapted as results were, by far, worse than those given by an expert system (propositional -and/or fuzzy- logic, inference), as the "knowledge storage capacity" for a given neural net structure was, simply, not enough. The problem was that as a "evaluation functions" the neural nets were very good, but had "narrow vision", i.e. acting much as greedy algorithms, reaching local minimums and maximums by not being capable of "focus wider". Anyway, I do assume that was **my** fault, but by using current "state of the art" neural net technology, nowdays, you have to work with clear limits.
I was talking about **gaming**. In both chemical and industrial environments, and other areas, neural nets are giving good results, where the target is to get a quick interpolated/extrapolated response. Nowdays, there is no neural net capable of abstraction (to rebate, please, just give me one prove).