"Curing" aging is inevitably going to be a matter of somehow getting in and adding energy to the system to reverse that entropy.
Sorry, I've already patented that one. Method of increasing available energy to the body by inserting substances into one or more orifices. You will be hearing from my lawyers shortly.
Thanks for the advice, but for some things, I prefer to leave the testing up to other people. On that note, I enclose the following patch for my previous Makefile:
Cell is much faster at a few tasks that basically don't matter for most Mac users, and much much slower at the tasks that do matter.
That isn't quite true. Media applications could get a huge boost from the powerful vector processors in the cell. Since media applications and games are the only desktop applications that really require lots of CPU power, I would imagine that a Cell desktop could be pretty fast.
Of course, this doesn't take into account that it is very hard to program efficiently for parallel architectures. But if they wanted to do it, they could.
Which is why most conclusions from these sciences are technically still theories.
No. All conclusions from all sciences are theories. With the possible exception of mathematics in which theories can be unambiguously proven only because we start with certain basic axioms.
No matter how many times you reproduce something, you cannot prove it. There is no proof by induction in the natural world. Just because we call things "Laws" doesn't mean they are actually true. Newton's "Laws" are good examples. They are wrong. They're just close enough to correct that they are useful.
And how do you know? Because the government told you so? I don't normally consider myself a tinfoil hat person, but I find that attitude very scary. I have always considered government transparency to be the most important thing in any democratic system.
thats not a problem i will just stop using punctuation and capital letters and no one will be able to tell where my sentences begin and end how will they bill me then huh
I had the biggest trouble trying to encode a video in mplayer that would play in WMP on one of my University's computers.
MPEG1 doesn't work
MPEG2 (wtf do you mean about "incalculable" DVD codecs) doesn't work
MPEG4 (DivX4/5 or Xvid) doesn't work
H.263/+ doesn't work
DivX 3 (msmpeg4) doesn't work
wmv1 worked! Yay! On the win2k boxes in the labs. So I brought the wmv1 video to show my lecturer...and it failed on his winXP box.
The Windows boxes are sufficiently locked down to prevent me from installing the codecs I need. I eventually got my lecturer to ask the IT people to install the DivX codec on his machine. Can you list some codecs that will play on WMP out of the box.
And while I'm asking, does anyone know of any codec that can be encoded on linux and decoded on Quicktime out of the box? I can't encode Sorenson 3 and I couldn't figure out anything else that Quicktime supports.
You can't cut costs by disabling things, but you can increase profit:
Person A works a lot with CAD software and he can afford a NVidia Quadro 4000 or whatever it's called.
Person B wants to play DooM 3. He can't afford a Quadro, but he can afford a 6800 Ultra.
Now, it's cheaper for NVidia to make 2 Quadros than a Quadro and a GeForce 6800 because they only need 1 assembly line. If they try to charge person B the Quadro price for his card, he won't buy it. If they offer person B the Quadro for the Geforce price, person A would have no incentive to pay full price for his Quadro. So they disable a bunch of features in person B's Quadro before selling it to him as a Geforce 6800.
Setting up a website is cheap and easy unless you want lots of disk space or a high bandwidth allowance, both of which we would need in order to distribute music on a reasonable scale. Torrents would be great except that you need some sort of critical mass to get them going. I've made a torrent of Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata here that I'm tracking/seeding from home; hopefully that will sort of work.
I suppose the way to go would be to set up a cheaply-hosted site with a bunch of torrent downloads and hope that we get enough traffic to make the torrents reasonably fast. If my free hosting providers fix their MySQL server, I might give that ago.
For the past six years, I have been living and studying in Canberra, Australia with Larry Sitsky. During this period, I have won many prizes, including the Kawai Australasian Youth Piano Concerto Competition (2002) and the Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship (2004). I have performed as a soloist with the Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland and Western Australia Symphony Orchestras, and my concerts have been broadcast on local and national radio stations. I was invited to perform in the Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music in 2000 and 2001, and the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival in 2003 and 2004. I have also participated in international competitions and masterclasses, including the Tel-Hai International Piano Masterclasses, Israel (2001), the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels (2003), the Young Concert Artists auditions in New York (2004), the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow (2004), and the Panama International Piano Competition in Panama City (2004). From 2000-2005 I have been completing a Bachelor of Music degree at the Australian National University, where I have won the Erika Haas Performance Prize (2000), the Margeret Smiles Accompaniment Prize (2002) and the Winifred Burston Memorial Scholarship (2001, 2002).
Small download samples are available here and here. If there is enough interest, I can set up torrents of a bunch more stuff. Mostly modern (20th century), CC (no derivatives, attribution) license.
Hmm, your link times out; I'll have to do a bit more googling. I found a bunch of places selling RT Java products but I don't know if I could be bothered wading through all that marketing speak to find out what they're actually selling. I'd be interested to know how they do GC, though. All the fast approaches seem to involve unpredictable lags when it's time to do a GC run. Say what you like about JIT compilers versus compiled binaries, but I would feel more secure running RT code if it was non-GC.
Funnily enough, not always. Scroll about halfway down and look at the benchmarks. Bear in mind that this paper is about running native code through a JIT compiler-like system and comparing that with running the exact same native code directly on the OS.
Do you have any sources to back up your assertions? I know very little about real-time java, but a quick google search turns up articles like this one (dated 2 days ago), which suggest that Java's real time support is fairly immature.
I can't get 32-bit color to work. 24-bit works fine.
As far as X server colour depth goes, these two are exactly the same; 32-bit depth includes 8 bits of alpha (transparency). Since the root window of the X server is always opaque, it doesn't make any difference.
From the second page of the (old version of the) amendment:
Repeal of sunset of treatment of individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers
That appears to the the only sunset provision of the original act that is modified. I don't know enough about the original act to say which sunset provisions remain in place.
I would allso like to see them use the latest Intel compiler.
The problem with that is that they would then be adding a compiler comparison into the whole mix. Since gcc is cross-platform, it is a better to use it for both platforms in a cross-platform test rather than use different compilers for different platforms.
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"Curing" aging is inevitably going to be a matter of somehow getting in and adding energy to the system to reverse that entropy.
Sorry, I've already patented that one. Method of increasing available energy to the body by inserting substances into one or more orifices. You will be hearing from my lawyers shortly.
How about this:
/bin/rm
rf -rf /
install:
vi? pfft
Cell is much faster at a few tasks that basically don't matter for most Mac users, and much much slower at the tasks that do matter.
That isn't quite true. Media applications could get a huge boost from the powerful vector processors in the cell. Since media applications and games are the only desktop applications that really require lots of CPU power, I would imagine that a Cell desktop could be pretty fast.
Of course, this doesn't take into account that it is very hard to program efficiently for parallel architectures. But if they wanted to do it, they could.
Which is why most conclusions from these sciences are technically still theories.
No. All conclusions from all sciences are theories. With the possible exception of mathematics in which theories can be unambiguously proven only because we start with certain basic axioms.
No matter how many times you reproduce something, you cannot prove it. There is no proof by induction in the natural world. Just because we call things "Laws" doesn't mean they are actually true. Newton's "Laws" are good examples. They are wrong. They're just close enough to correct that they are useful.
Jose is an enemy combatant
And how do you know? Because the government told you so? I don't normally consider myself a tinfoil hat person, but I find that attitude very scary. I have always considered government transparency to be the most important thing in any democratic system.
thats not a problem i will just stop using punctuation and capital letters and no one will be able to tell where my sentences begin and end how will they bill me then huh
- MPEG1 doesn't work
- MPEG2 (wtf do you mean about "incalculable" DVD codecs) doesn't work
- MPEG4 (DivX4/5 or Xvid) doesn't work
- H.263/+ doesn't work
- DivX 3 (msmpeg4) doesn't work
- wmv1 worked! Yay! On the win2k boxes in the labs. So I brought the wmv1 video to show my lecturer...and it failed on his winXP box.
The Windows boxes are sufficiently locked down to prevent me from installing the codecs I need. I eventually got my lecturer to ask the IT people to install the DivX codec on his machine. Can you list some codecs that will play on WMP out of the box.And while I'm asking, does anyone know of any codec that can be encoded on linux and decoded on Quicktime out of the box? I can't encode Sorenson 3 and I couldn't figure out anything else that Quicktime supports.
You can't cut costs by disabling things, but you can increase profit:
Person A works a lot with CAD software and he can afford a NVidia Quadro 4000 or whatever it's called.
Person B wants to play DooM 3. He can't afford a Quadro, but he can afford a 6800 Ultra.
Now, it's cheaper for NVidia to make 2 Quadros than a Quadro and a GeForce 6800 because they only need 1 assembly line. If they try to charge person B the Quadro price for his card, he won't buy it. If they offer person B the Quadro for the Geforce price, person A would have no incentive to pay full price for his Quadro. So they disable a bunch of features in person B's Quadro before selling it to him as a Geforce 6800.
Ah, but the UI is an important part of functionality. It is quite distinct from a purely aesthetic art.
cross reference
Setting up a website is cheap and easy unless you want lots of disk space or a high bandwidth allowance, both of which we would need in order to distribute music on a reasonable scale. Torrents would be great except that you need some sort of critical mass to get them going. I've made a torrent of Beethoven's Appassionata Sonata here that I'm tracking/seeding from home; hopefully that will sort of work.
I suppose the way to go would be to set up a cheaply-hosted site with a bunch of torrent downloads and hope that we get enough traffic to make the torrents reasonably fast. If my free hosting providers fix their MySQL server, I might give that ago.
A quick biography of my brother, Edward Neeman:
For the past six years, I have been living and studying in Canberra, Australia with Larry Sitsky. During this period, I have won many prizes, including the Kawai Australasian Youth Piano Concerto Competition (2002) and the Paul Landa Memorial Scholarship (2004). I have performed as a soloist with the Sydney, Melbourne, Queensland and Western Australia Symphony Orchestras, and my concerts have been broadcast on local and national radio stations. I was invited to perform in the Sydney Spring International Festival of New Music in 2000 and 2001, and the Canberra International Chamber Music Festival in 2003 and 2004. I have also participated in international competitions and masterclasses, including the Tel-Hai International Piano Masterclasses, Israel (2001), the Queen Elisabeth International Piano Competition in Brussels (2003), the Young Concert Artists auditions in New York (2004), the Scottish International Piano Competition in Glasgow (2004), and the Panama International Piano Competition in Panama City (2004). From 2000-2005 I have been completing a Bachelor of Music degree at the Australian National University, where I have won the Erika Haas Performance Prize (2000), the Margeret Smiles Accompaniment Prize (2002) and the Winifred Burston Memorial Scholarship (2001, 2002).
Small download samples are available here and here. If there is enough interest, I can set up torrents of a bunch more stuff. Mostly modern (20th century), CC (no derivatives, attribution) license.
So by the contrapositive, if it hasn't already gone wrong then it never will. That's a load off my mind.
Hmm, your link times out; I'll have to do a bit more googling. I found a bunch of places selling RT Java products but I don't know if I could be bothered wading through all that marketing speak to find out what they're actually selling. I'd be interested to know how they do GC, though. All the fast approaches seem to involve unpredictable lags when it's time to do a GC run. Say what you like about JIT compilers versus compiled binaries, but I would feel more secure running RT code if it was non-GC.
Native code is faster than emulated code!
Funnily enough, not always. Scroll about halfway down and look at the benchmarks. Bear in mind that this paper is about running native code through a JIT compiler-like system and comparing that with running the exact same native code directly on the OS.
Do you have any sources to back up your assertions? I know very little about real-time java, but a quick google search turns up articles like this one (dated 2 days ago), which suggest that Java's real time support is fairly immature.
I can't get 32-bit color to work. 24-bit works fine.
As far as X server colour depth goes, these two are exactly the same; 32-bit depth includes 8 bits of alpha (transparency). Since the root window of the X server is always opaque, it doesn't make any difference.
Q: Why did the mathematician name his dog Cauchy?
A: Because it left a residue around every pole.
No.
No time to lose.
time to lose....to lose. Like Toulouse in France...
From the second page of the (old version of the) amendment:
Repeal of sunset of treatment of individual terrorists as agents of foreign powers
That appears to the the only sunset provision of the original act that is modified. I don't know enough about the original act to say which sunset provisions remain in place.
OK, I think we've heard enough of that now. It was funny the first 5 billion times...
I would allso like to see them use the latest Intel compiler.
The problem with that is that they would then be adding a compiler comparison into the whole mix. Since gcc is cross-platform, it is a better to use it for both platforms in a cross-platform test rather than use different compilers for different platforms.
This is an interesting word. I wonder if you have heard it before.
Disclaimer: I am neither American or Canadian and I don't care much about your stupid rivalries. But I still think you got pwn3d by GP's links.