I don't think so; in the FAQ says they are offering 512/128kbps. I'd like to see you try that over GPRS;-)
GPRS is a public telephone network and most major operators are deploying it right now or will be in the near future. It is basically a packet-switched, always-on addon to the GSM network.
Don't get your hopes up on those throughput speeds, though...
(it seems 'first post' is filtered by the 'lameness filter'...)
BTW: Being a non-US citizen, I prefer Al Gore; he seems less chauvinistic and more open-minded...
Now that the president of the US is more and more becoming 'president of the world', it is not a comfortable feeling that the faith of the rest of the world is in the hands of the American people... (or should I say: in the hands of the Florida voters...)
On the bottom of the press-release it says the following about Microsucks:
The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device.
Does this sound familiar to any of you? Personaly I haven't been able to run an MS product on anything but x86 and even that's not fully implemented...:-)
The point is that it doesn't matter how fast your FT is, jpeg2000 doesn't use FT anymore. The article states clearly that wavelets are used INSTEAD OF Fourier. The problem with Fourier is that a compact signal in the time-domain becomes very large in the frequency-domain and vica-versa. Wavelets keep the signal compact in both spaces !
I don't think many of us are personally interested in these NC's (for various reasons), but they could benefit a great lot of people. There are loads of people outthere shopping for a computer 'to get onto the Internet'. These people don't do anything serious with their PC's, but still need to pay big bucks for the latest K7 or Pentium III (because nothing else is available). What do they need blazingly-fast machines for, just to run Word and type a letter to grandma... (although MS makes sure they DO need this machine just to run Word!)
Surely NC's are not ideal for power-users, but may offer an alternative between the current PC and for example Web-TV's. Of course you'd better not run the current applications on your NC because of the load you'll put on the network; but it would be useful to develop lightweight versions of a few popular programs, especially designed to be run over a network-connection.
Another advantage may be maintenance. It's a lot easier to maintain an NC in a large network, than it is to keep a bunch of MS-machines up and running. I, myself, manage a university-network and I can tell you, the mess students can make on a PC over a day is huge! We even rewrite the disk-images of these PC's every day to keep the system up and running. NC's would certainly put an end to this mess...
I guess my point is that NC's aren't suitable as a replacement for standalone PC's, but they certainly Do have their applications...
Although the Turing test is widely regarded as a tool to test intelligence, this statement is very questionable. The Turing test only test how well a program can simulate a human.
For example: if a friend of yours can multiply two large numbers, you'll say he's smart; however no-one ever called a calculator 'smart'. If a person memorizes all countries with their capitals, you'll also consider this person intelligent; computers are far better in memorizing things.
The point is that this program (trying to pass the Turing test) will not only have to fake intelligence, but also stupidity. If the interrogator asks it to factor 4553536663, it will have to lie and say it doesn't know or it will loose credibility. The question here is: is it favorable for a computer (or any other device) to deny its capabilities, just because our definition of intelligence might be a little off ?
I've been hired to maintain PC's in a University. Entire rooms of desktops on which students do as they like. The next day, nothing is the same as yesterday. These situations a nightmare for administrators, but also for the next person who wants to use the PC.
There's only one room equipped with X-terms and that's the only room I've never had to visit.
Cutting down on the PC's would make my job useless and free funds for more usefull things...
This thing would run Java code. Doe anyone have an idea of the performance of these native Java-things? Does anyone know where embedded Java is used in other apps ?
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I don't think so; in the FAQ says they are offering 512/128kbps. I'd like to see you try that over GPRS
GPRS is a public telephone network and most major operators are deploying it right now or will be in the near future. It is basically a packet-switched, always-on addon to the GSM network.
Don't get your hopes up on those throughput speeds, though...
(it seems 'first post' is filtered by the 'lameness filter'...)
BTW: Being a non-US citizen, I prefer Al Gore; he seems less chauvinistic and more open-minded...
Now that the president of the US is more and more becoming 'president of the world', it is not a comfortable feeling that the faith of the rest of the world is in the hands of the American people... (or should I say: in the hands of the Florida voters...)
cat database | grep "18 years old, blonde, big boobs, loves Linux" > /dev/me
The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software - any time, any place and on any device.
Does this sound familiar to any of you? Personaly I haven't been able to run an MS product on anything but x86 and even that's not fully implemented... :-)
The point is that it doesn't matter how fast your FT is, jpeg2000 doesn't use FT anymore. The article states clearly that wavelets are used INSTEAD OF Fourier. The problem with Fourier is that a compact signal in the time-domain becomes very large in the frequency-domain and vica-versa. Wavelets keep the signal compact in both spaces !
I don't think many of us are personally interested in these NC's (for various reasons), but they could benefit a great lot of people. There are loads of people outthere shopping for a computer 'to get onto the Internet'. These people don't do anything serious with their PC's, but still need to pay big bucks for the latest K7 or Pentium III (because nothing else is available). What do they need blazingly-fast machines for, just to run Word and type a letter to grandma... (although MS makes sure they DO need this machine just to run Word!)
Surely NC's are not ideal for power-users, but may offer an alternative between the current PC and for example Web-TV's. Of course you'd better not run the current applications on your NC because of the load you'll put on the network; but it would be useful to develop lightweight versions of a few popular programs, especially designed to be run over a network-connection.
Another advantage may be maintenance. It's a lot easier to maintain an NC in a large network, than it is to keep a bunch of MS-machines up and running. I, myself, manage a university-network and I can tell you, the mess students can make on a PC over a day is huge! We even rewrite the disk-images of these PC's every day to keep the system up and running. NC's would certainly put an end to this mess...
I guess my point is that NC's aren't suitable as a replacement for standalone PC's, but they certainly Do have their applications...
Although the Turing test is widely regarded as a tool to test intelligence, this statement is very questionable. The Turing test only test how well a program can simulate a human.
For example: if a friend of yours can multiply two large numbers, you'll say he's smart; however no-one ever called a calculator 'smart'.
If a person memorizes all countries with their capitals, you'll also consider this person intelligent; computers are far better in memorizing things.
The point is that this program (trying to pass the Turing test) will not only have to fake intelligence, but also stupidity. If the interrogator asks it to factor 4553536663, it will have to lie and say it doesn't know or it will loose credibility. The question here is: is it favorable for a computer (or any other device) to deny its capabilities, just because our definition of intelligence might be a little off ?
Exactly!
I've been hired to maintain PC's in a University. Entire rooms of desktops on which students do as they like. The next day, nothing is the same as yesterday. These situations a nightmare for administrators, but also for the next person who wants to use the PC.
There's only one room equipped with X-terms and that's the only room I've never had to visit.
Cutting down on the PC's would make my job useless and free funds for more usefull things...
I think the cost of maintaining a few hundred PCs that users can screw up themselves is a lot higher in the long run than a good server.
If every user has his/her own desktop, you'll need an entire IT-staff to maintain the bunch...
This thing would run Java code. Doe anyone have an idea of the performance of these native Java-things? Does anyone know where embedded Java is used in other apps ?