It has to coalesce faster than matter or it won't guide the matter in forming galaxies, but it has to coalesce slower than matter or it won't remain in a sphere around the galaxies that form. It has to form a spherical shape around galaxies for it to be of use in explaining the flat rotational velocities of galaxies, but it has to take the form of long filaments to explain the shape of supercluster.
Writing concurrent software isn't that much more difficult than writing single threaded software, as long as you do a good job of partitioning the system into seperate control loops early on. The main difference will be a period of tweaking and adjusting the interplay of the different threads of execution in the system towards the end of development. It's not uncommon for this last stage to take more time than writing the code initially. A tactic that will help a lot is to build an event log into the software from the beginning that can be used to record when each thread finishes doing some processing task. The later version of the freescale 7400 series processor have many features for just this purpose, I would think the ibm 7400 core used in the cell would have the same features, but I am not sure.
A good language to look at for how concurrency can be supported is Ada. There is a lot of good stuff in Ada and a lot of bad stuff in Ada, but the designers did a very good job on the concurrency model.
"He expects to find investors to help pay for the research needed to figure a way to increase the tree power from less than 2 volts to 12 volts sometime this year, creating an alternative to fossil fuels."
Well, he could increase the potential from 2 volts to 12 volts by putting them in series. I think he probably has a longer way to go than he knows.
No matter how loud you can crank your stereo, several months of a crying baby in your house will make you appreciate the little bit of the quiet time you get.
Great article, but the scary part about it is that the practical application are all about improving safety by limiting human activity - there is nothing here that expands the possibility of performance, it's all about limiting.
The DOD, major corporations, government, etc. are all concerned with limiting their liablility by limiting what a vehicle can do using AI technology - not about improving the performance of the vehicle. There is an effort to create a truck that can drive itself across the desert at 30 mph, but not an effort to make one that can drive across the desert at 150mph by integrating more seemlessly with the human driver.
Don't get me wrong. I would love to have a car that could drive me to work each day while I read a book or browsed the net. But the current push in vehicle control systems is more toward limiting the performance the driver can expect than improving it. When I stomp down on the accelerator I need to go fast, right then, not have my acceleration limited by the fuel injection control system - and with he cost of gasoline as high as it, I am not going to stomp on the accelerator unless I have a good reason.
So much of our intellectual efforts, engineering and legal expertise is directed toward limiting liability and risk aversion that it will eventually cripple us.
If we lose our will to push the boundaries of what is capable, then we are doomed.
Expert ... on the lyrics of the greatful dead?
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How pathetic is that.
"Hey mannn, most Greatful Dead lyrics are actually translittered iambic pentamiturrreee, maannn. With deep allusions to shakespeare mann."
as much as I would like to see a Apple-Dell alliance, don't hold your breathe. In the current world Job's ego is as much of a weakness as it is an asset.
He thanks you are a smelly geek that fell for a formulistic western straight out of the old 1950 serials.
The truly sad thing is that serenity was one of the best scifi pictures to come out in the last 2 decades, even considering that it was formulistic and predicable.
You roll a 1. You miss the LichKing and accidentally chop off your priest's head with your critical failure. Roll a d20 saving throw and then roll percentile dice.
Armies start out as guerilla units and invariably strive to become 'regular' Armies, the kind that march around in ranks and files - within a generation they totally forget how to fight guerilla warfare.
The U.S. Army was outmaneuvered for years by the Comanches in the Southern Plains, even though they had used and faced the same tactics in the Civil War just a few years before.
During Vietnam, the U.S. never seemed to get the hang of anti-insurgency warfare, but just a decade later they utterly defeated multiple communist insurgencies in Central America with just a few hundred 'advisors'.
Even the Vietnamese army, that so successfully used guerilla tactics from 1944 to 1975, were forced to withdraw from Cambodia by a sustained insurgency they couldn't defeat 12 years after they invaded.
The great weakness of all regular armies is that they are always preparing to fight the last war.
It's impossible at this point with our technology to even know how many different viruses exist. But the number is surely many times the number we have been able to isolate.
This one has it all - sony, the queen, arrows, jam
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"A company as big as this one... has to organize its priorities. In the U.K. we call it the law of raspberry jam: the wider the culture is spread, the thinner it is spread." -- Howard Stringer, as he became Sony (Profile, Products, Articles) CEO. He also talked about having tea with the queen and her complaint that Sony remote controls have "too many arrows." (June 23.)
A female monarch older than most of the countries on the planet complaining about the remotes made by the first company to deploy rootkits in commercial products - that pretty much sums up the current state of humanity.
Maybe the guy lives out in the boondocks or something and was driving home when he stopped to help 2 able bodied men in trouble? I am sure a Professor of Religious Studies know more about fixing a broken down pickup truck than 2 bumpkins.
There is something weird about this story.
Then again, Kansas is the state that originated Jayhawkers.
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It has to coalesce faster than matter or it won't guide the matter in forming galaxies, but it has to coalesce slower than matter or it won't remain in a sphere around the galaxies that form. It has to form a spherical shape around galaxies for it to be of use in explaining the flat rotational velocities of galaxies, but it has to take the form of long filaments to explain the shape of supercluster.
Writing concurrent software isn't that much more difficult than writing single threaded software, as long as you do a good job of partitioning the system into seperate control loops early on. The main difference will be a period of tweaking and adjusting the interplay of the different threads of execution in the system towards the end of development. It's not uncommon for this last stage to take more time than writing the code initially. A tactic that will help a lot is to build an event log into the software from the beginning that can be used to record when each thread finishes doing some processing task. The later version of the freescale 7400 series processor have many features for just this purpose, I would think the ibm 7400 core used in the cell would have the same features, but I am not sure.
A good language to look at for how concurrency can be supported is Ada. There is a lot of good stuff in Ada and a lot of bad stuff in Ada, but the designers did a very good job on the concurrency model.
Well, he could increase the potential from 2 volts to 12 volts by putting them in series. I think he probably has a longer way to go than he knows.
Hello Microsoft Money!
No matter how loud you can crank your stereo, several months of a crying baby in your house will make you appreciate the little bit of the quiet time you get.
The DOD, major corporations, government, etc. are all concerned with limiting their liablility by limiting what a vehicle can do using AI technology - not about improving the performance of the vehicle. There is an effort to create a truck that can drive itself across the desert at 30 mph, but not an effort to make one that can drive across the desert at 150mph by integrating more seemlessly with the human driver.
Don't get me wrong. I would love to have a car that could drive me to work each day while I read a book or browsed the net. But the current push in vehicle control systems is more toward limiting the performance the driver can expect than improving it. When I stomp down on the accelerator I need to go fast, right then, not have my acceleration limited by the fuel injection control system - and with he cost of gasoline as high as it, I am not going to stomp on the accelerator unless I have a good reason.
So much of our intellectual efforts, engineering and legal expertise is directed toward limiting liability and risk aversion that it will eventually cripple us.
If we lose our will to push the boundaries of what is capable, then we are doomed.
"Hey mannn, most Greatful Dead lyrics are actually translittered iambic pentamiturrreee, maannn. With deep allusions to shakespeare mann."
Woooooshshsh.
"This is some killer herb maannnnn."
as much as I would like to see a Apple-Dell alliance, don't hold your breathe. In the current world Job's ego is as much of a weakness as it is an asset.
welcome our preteen backseat driver overlords... is this gonna make my insurance go up?
The truly sad thing is that serenity was one of the best scifi pictures to come out in the last 2 decades, even considering that it was formulistic and predicable.
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Nothing some airbrushing and photoshopping can't fix.
And here I was thinking it was Paul Allens next speech to the board of directors.
But some of the desktop clocks are fantastic.
But what about dolphins with dart guns?
I will have you know I am a Household Fluid Evacuation Engineer in good standing and I make 5 times what you do!
You roll a 1. You miss the LichKing and accidentally chop off your priest's head with your critical failure. Roll a d20 saving throw and then roll percentile dice.
Armies start out as guerilla units and invariably strive to become 'regular' Armies, the kind that march around in ranks and files - within a generation they totally forget how to fight guerilla warfare.
The U.S. Army was outmaneuvered for years by the Comanches in the Southern Plains, even though they had used and faced the same tactics in the Civil War just a few years before.
During Vietnam, the U.S. never seemed to get the hang of anti-insurgency warfare, but just a decade later they utterly defeated multiple communist insurgencies in Central America with just a few hundred 'advisors'.
Even the Vietnamese army, that so successfully used guerilla tactics from 1944 to 1975, were forced to withdraw from Cambodia by a sustained insurgency they couldn't defeat 12 years after they invaded.
The great weakness of all regular armies is that they are always preparing to fight the last war.
It's impossible at this point with our technology to even know how many different viruses exist. But the number is surely many times the number we have been able to isolate.
A female monarch older than most of the countries on the planet complaining about the remotes made by the first company to deploy rootkits in commercial products - that pretty much sums up the current state of humanity.
Yeah there is. Like Ballmer could kill Jobs and his whole family just by sitting on them.
How can you lose 39 big in the flash business these days?
SOOOO-WEEHHHHH!
Google "Godel Incompleteness Theoreom" as far as your question about trusting logic.
Here is my current question:
If God give us free will, can he still be Omnipotent?
There is something weird about this story.
Then again, Kansas is the state that originated Jayhawkers.