Fair enough.
Thanks for checking that out. I was interested in numbers on that.
The reason I consider the tools not directly related to searching web pages is that's what ask.com is bound to start pushing. To be honest, it doesn't really matter what search algorithm you use as long as relevant pages show up at the top of the list. I value a page that loads fast when I get to it, and the extra features like video searches and mail and the personalized home page are useful and make it a nice service.
I'm sure ask is going to be focusing on things outside of improving its search algorithm.
But how far can they push it without the lawsuits flying is an interesting question.
The second they start specializing in a field google has betad in, I'm sure you'll see some rising tension and friction.
1. Which has a heavier home page? If it's 2 seconds on a 28.8 KB modem to access a homepage for one of them, it's preferred to 10 mins on the same. I only use 28.8 as an example because it really gets the point across.
2. Does the new site surpass google by SO MUCH that people who are familiar with google, enjoy google's constant service upgrades (with no downloads at that), switch over?
3. How much is the SO MUCH in the previous question?
I'm sorry, but in my opinion, the specs given are still pretty much useless.
This isn't like the Intel/AMD argument, because each of the chipsets has a different ISA
It isn't necessarily true that every command executed in the 3.2GHz cores of an XBox 360 will
constitute one clock cycle. In fact, I'm sure that a method of achieving those awesome frequencies
is by removing as much functionality as possible from each command the 'core' of the CPU performs.
The ON-GPU memory is really significant. 3MBs of in chip memory is more valuable than 15MBs of off
chip memory. It immediatly means that the GPU is able to concurrently manipulate the 3MBs of memory
as close to 'free of charge' as possible.
Since it's a gaming machine and doesn't need an independant os for much more than thread management,
This also means that those 3MBs will probably be dedicated to what is currently on screen.
From a texture memory perspective, one texel (texture pixel) is 4 bytes, assuming 32 bit color with
no compression. This means theres room for a million pixels in that memory at one time, or just shy
of a 1024x1024 pic. That memory can be manipulated quickly too!
For clarification, that is a REALLY COOL THING!!! That is the amount of data that can be played
with for FREE internally.
I don't know about anyone else, but judging by the 'spec' comparisons in the past, Nintendo plays
their resources to the fullest, and compared to the price tags of the other machines, I'm still
thinking Nintendo's box is probably going to be pretty nuts.
On a side note, I'm still not sure I like the idea of the controller...
I'm a 'reality' gamer, so if my natural habit of diving around while playing is a bad thing to have
while using a SDoF controller, the system is going to really let me down...
We'll find out, this is up for grabs for me
I agree. They don't have all the tools to rebuild themselves, but neither do we.
If you look at us on a protein level, we require more amino acids than our bodies can naturally produce
We also don't produce Omega-3 oils, but our bodies use them, and seem to be healthier with them.
In order to survive, we need to take in these raw building blocks.
I am not going to take this to a molecular level, because you need to start somewhere, but if you need to survive and propagate, and you know that something else has mastered the second part, and you can take advantage of that to make it easier for you to live, then you still are alive.
In the same breath, I think if a computer had blueprints for the majority of its key components (the CPU, the motherboard, possibly a hard drive and some sort of input and output) and it went over to another machine and injected its code into that second machine to make the second machine pump out a computer WITHOUT HUMANS TELLING THEM TO DO SO EACH TIME then they would be alive.
If they had instructions to hunt out the machines that could produce and assemble a new computer, and then tell the machine to produce them, it would count.
Granted, this is very limited life and is not sentient life. It's just functional life.
On a more serious note, how about news from other countries...Off-Biased(I will not say it's unbiased, but it's not biased the same way ours is.)
The ability to hear an intelligent opinion from a different perspective is important.
Any international company uses the non-regionalized internet daily. This allows larger companies with spread borders to act as if they were in the same room. Without a borderless internet, it is free of many political disputes.
I think there's a tremendous amount of value in all of that.
It also means you've identified one of the problems, which means you're further along than MOST people in correcting it.
Realising you're being a moron is half the battle.
That actually sounds like a lot of fun to me. I'm a little more worried about people who don't expect a thermometer to melt who are going to be designing a structure around the same volcano. It just seems to me like they're asking to take it in the ass...
I think it's similar to how a plane needs to be going a certain speed for there to be enough lift to get it off the ground. So they give them wheels and allow them to drive up to a minimum for takeoff. The only difference is you'd be using a second jet engine for sub-mach 5.
If you ever look into how a nozzle on a rocket engine works, you'll see a similar pattern. The gas before the nozzle can only move sub sonic. Inside the nozzle, it is compressed until it actually reaches the sound barrier. The pressures are balanced in such a way that once it breaches the center of the nozzle, the air is still moving at the speed of sound. Since a supersonic gas behaves differently than a subsonic gas, the re-expansion of the gas further accelerates it.
There is no benefit to using the jet engine that they've designed if you're only going below mach 5. But once you're that fast, you've got a means of achieving incredible velocities with less fuel on board than you would need otherwise. A ramjet is a great concept because it literally scoops the fuel from the environment.
For those homeland security freaks, this is also much safer, since it doesn't have enough oxygen in the system below mach five for the oxidation of the fuel, it would seem it wouldn't have as explosive results from getting into an accident as actually supplying an oxidizer with the fuel.
This is of course personal speculation...
7404 Not gates have a gate delay on the order of 10 nano-seconds. In the output of my ring oscillator, I found that it tended to form a saw wave (almost equally balanced) rather than a square wave, since the majority of the time was spent in either a rising or falling edge. The more gates used, the closer this becomes to a square wave.
A simpler method of producing lower frequencies, or adjustable frequencies is to attach a cap to the input of a not gate (we've used 7414), and provide a feedback resistor from the output to the input. This method will charge the cap until the energy stored is high enough to trigger the transistor. The actual amount of time it takes is based on K/RC where K is related to the switching ratio(if I remember correctly) and RC is the product of the Cap in Farads and the Resistor in Ohms.
The reason the higher freqs are so important are that the gate delay must be significantly reduced in order to achieve them
This is difficult once you're below a certain level.
"Either be really good, or be really good at brown nosing. The former is usually preferrable; especially if your bosses are no slouches"
There is a destinction between a brown noser and a suck up:
I vote $15 To $20 USD for DVDs, $5 To $12 for CDs.
Anyone else want to make a statement?
Who knows, maybe someone non-technical actually reads these posts.
Actually, there are more. Just Super Heroes probably has 10 or 15, each on a different item type.
What if someone just was selling a really good sub-sandwich. That could be a Super Hero without infringing on the trademark held by DC and Marvel.
If you include everything that has a trademark with that word/phrase or derivatives in it, there's far more that (on the order of a few hundreds).
I'm certain there are overlaps, but because DC and Marvel have had the patent since 1966, I think theirs probably takes precedence over most of them.
That's true, it's technically a publication including the phrase Super Heroes.
I think that's technically valid, although they would never do it because they'd be biting the hand that feeds them.
Odds are if they did, the trademark office would revoke the phrase, rather than paying the fine.
I think yes, the term is used for a lot of things. Here's what the patent and trademark office shows regarding this:
SUPERHERO is owned by David & Goliath, Inc. for use on clothing SUPER HERO Oooh, this one's for skin cream
So it isn't reserved across everything, where is it reserved?
SUPER HEROES FOUND IT!!!
Goods and services: "
PUBLICATIONS, PARTICULARLY COMIC BOOKS AND MAGAZINES AND STORIES IN ILLUSTRATED FORM [(( ; CARDBOARD STAND-UP FIGURES; PLAYING CARDS; PAPER IRON-ON TRANSFER; ERASERS; PENCIL SHARPENERS; PENCILS; GLUE FOR OFFICE AND HOME USE, SUCH AS IS SOLD AS STATIONERY SUPPLY;] NOTEBOOKS AND STAMP ALBUMS )). FIRST USE: 19661000. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19661000"
So, they technically can ONLY press this against comic book writers (and other publishers).
Sounds to me like the 5 mile walkie talkies that can function up to half a mile in ideal conditions. What ever happened to using more than a few percent ( 10% ) of the optical fiber laid. At least in a sheathed situation, the fiber is guarenteed to carry a significant amount of data rapidly. I'm also not sure how effective working on improving bandwidth is when the current tech is as faulty as it is. When I was in texas, I was across the street from my broad band provider, and had regular net outages several times a day.
One of these days, they should make enough space on the bot for equipment to repair the broken pieces. No need for a soldering iron, how about a silver marker and a jar of latex and a paintbrush. Instantly repair the broken terminals. If they're so worried about dust collecting on the solar panels, add windshield wipers or a brush or a blower. There's dozens of ways of improving the life expectancy of the bot.
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I think they just don't want to admit that they just created a device that vibrates when someone looks bored.
I'm CERTAIN there's a market for that.
Fair enough.
Thanks for checking that out. I was interested in numbers on that.
The reason I consider the tools not directly related to searching web pages is that's what ask.com is bound to start pushing. To be honest, it doesn't really matter what search algorithm you use as long as relevant pages show up at the top of the list. I value a page that loads fast when I get to it, and the extra features like video searches and mail and the personalized home page are useful and make it a nice service.
I'm sure ask is going to be focusing on things outside of improving its search algorithm.
But how far can they push it without the lawsuits flying is an interesting question.
The second they start specializing in a field google has betad in, I'm sure you'll see some rising tension and friction.
Pardon the tangential thought process.
And now, the questions on "everyone's" minds
1. Which has a heavier home page? If it's 2 seconds on a 28.8 KB modem to access a homepage for one of them, it's preferred to 10 mins on the same. I only use 28.8 as an example because it really gets the point across.
2. Does the new site surpass google by SO MUCH that people who are familiar with google, enjoy google's constant service upgrades (with no downloads at that), switch over?
3. How much is the SO MUCH in the previous question?
Have fun with that.
I'm sorry, but in my opinion, the specs given are still pretty much useless.
This isn't like the Intel/AMD argument, because each of the chipsets has a different ISA
It isn't necessarily true that every command executed in the 3.2GHz cores of an XBox 360 will
constitute one clock cycle. In fact, I'm sure that a method of achieving those awesome frequencies
is by removing as much functionality as possible from each command the 'core' of the CPU performs.
The ON-GPU memory is really significant. 3MBs of in chip memory is more valuable than 15MBs of off
chip memory. It immediatly means that the GPU is able to concurrently manipulate the 3MBs of memory
as close to 'free of charge' as possible.
Since it's a gaming machine and doesn't need an independant os for much more than thread management,
This also means that those 3MBs will probably be dedicated to what is currently on screen.
From a texture memory perspective, one texel (texture pixel) is 4 bytes, assuming 32 bit color with
no compression. This means theres room for a million pixels in that memory at one time, or just shy
of a 1024x1024 pic. That memory can be manipulated quickly too!
For clarification, that is a REALLY COOL THING!!! That is the amount of data that can be played
with for FREE internally.
I don't know about anyone else, but judging by the 'spec' comparisons in the past, Nintendo plays
their resources to the fullest, and compared to the price tags of the other machines, I'm still
thinking Nintendo's box is probably going to be pretty nuts.
On a side note, I'm still not sure I like the idea of the controller...
I'm a 'reality' gamer, so if my natural habit of diving around while playing is a bad thing to have
while using a SDoF controller, the system is going to really let me down...
We'll find out, this is up for grabs for me
"It IS faster, over Five Million..." -South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut
I agree. They don't have all the tools to rebuild themselves, but neither do we.
If you look at us on a protein level, we require more amino acids than our bodies can naturally produce
We also don't produce Omega-3 oils, but our bodies use them, and seem to be healthier with them.
In order to survive, we need to take in these raw building blocks.
I am not going to take this to a molecular level, because you need to start somewhere, but if you need to survive and propagate, and you know that something else has mastered the second part, and you can take advantage of that to make it easier for you to live, then you still are alive.
In the same breath, I think if a computer had blueprints for the majority of its key components (the CPU, the motherboard, possibly a hard drive and some sort of input and output) and it went over to another machine and injected its code into that second machine to make the second machine pump out a computer WITHOUT HUMANS TELLING THEM TO DO SO EACH TIME then they would be alive.
If they had instructions to hunt out the machines that could produce and assemble a new computer, and then tell the machine to produce them, it would count.
Granted, this is very limited life and is not sentient life. It's just functional life.
All US tech company tech support...
On a more serious note, how about news from other countries...Off-Biased(I will not say it's unbiased, but it's not biased the same way ours is.)
The ability to hear an intelligent opinion from a different perspective is important.
Any international company uses the non-regionalized internet daily. This allows larger companies with spread borders to act as if they were in the same room. Without a borderless internet, it is free of many political disputes.
I think there's a tremendous amount of value in all of that.
"I forgive you stupid people" -Neurotically Yours
It also means you've identified one of the problems, which means you're further along than MOST people in correcting it.
Realising you're being a moron is half the battle.
That actually sounds like a lot of fun to me. I'm a little more worried about people who don't expect a thermometer to melt who are going to be designing a structure around the same volcano. It just seems to me like they're asking to take it in the ass...
I think it's similar to how a plane needs to be going a certain speed for there to be enough lift to get it off the ground. So they give them wheels and allow them to drive up to a minimum for takeoff. The only difference is you'd be using a second jet engine for sub-mach 5.
If you ever look into how a nozzle on a rocket engine works, you'll see a similar pattern. The gas before the nozzle can only move sub sonic. Inside the nozzle, it is compressed until it actually reaches the sound barrier. The pressures are balanced in such a way that once it breaches the center of the nozzle, the air is still moving at the speed of sound. Since a supersonic gas behaves differently than a subsonic gas, the re-expansion of the gas further accelerates it.
There is no benefit to using the jet engine that they've designed if you're only going below mach 5. But once you're that fast, you've got a means of achieving incredible velocities with less fuel on board than you would need otherwise. A ramjet is a great concept because it literally scoops the fuel from the environment.
For those homeland security freaks, this is also much safer, since it doesn't have enough oxygen in the system below mach five for the oxidation of the fuel, it would seem it wouldn't have as explosive results from getting into an accident as actually supplying an oxidizer with the fuel.
This is of course personal speculation...
enter the most awesome quote ever: "Praise me, for I am zombie Jesus. Behold my glory and stuff your kids with caffeine and chocolate."
7404 Not gates have a gate delay on the order of 10 nano-seconds. In the output of my ring oscillator, I found that it tended to form a saw wave (almost equally balanced) rather than a square wave, since the majority of the time was spent in either a rising or falling edge. The more gates used, the closer this becomes to a square wave.
A simpler method of producing lower frequencies, or adjustable frequencies is to attach a cap to the input of a not gate (we've used 7414), and provide a feedback resistor from the output to the input. This method will charge the cap until the energy stored is high enough to trigger the transistor. The actual amount of time it takes is based on K/RC where K is related to the switching ratio(if I remember correctly) and RC is the product of the Cap in Farads and the Resistor in Ohms.
The reason the higher freqs are so important are that the gate delay must be significantly reduced in order to achieve them
This is difficult once you're below a certain level.
OSX?
"Either be really good, or be really good at brown nosing. The former is usually preferrable; especially if your bosses are no slouches"
There is a destinction between a brown noser and a suck up:
Depth perception.
I would not recommend the former over the latter.
I vote $15 To $20 USD for DVDs, $5 To $12 for CDs.
Anyone else want to make a statement?
Who knows, maybe someone non-technical actually reads these posts.
Actually, there are more. Just Super Heroes probably has 10 or 15, each on a different item type.
What if someone just was selling a really good sub-sandwich. That could be a Super Hero without infringing on the trademark held by DC and Marvel.
If you include everything that has a trademark with that word/phrase or derivatives in it, there's far more that (on the order of a few hundreds).
I'm certain there are overlaps, but because DC and Marvel have had the patent since 1966, I think theirs probably takes precedence over most of them.
That's true, it's technically a publication including the phrase Super Heroes.
I think that's technically valid, although they would never do it because they'd be biting the hand that feeds them.
Odds are if they did, the trademark office would revoke the phrase, rather than paying the fine.
Thanks, I didn't realize that the links were bad because the search hadn't expired.
I think yes, the term is used for a lot of things. Here's what the patent and trademark office shows regarding this:
SUPERHERO is owned by David & Goliath, Inc. for use on clothing
SUPER HERO Oooh, this one's for skin cream
So it isn't reserved across everything, where is it reserved?
SUPER HEROES FOUND IT!!!
Goods and services: " PUBLICATIONS, PARTICULARLY COMIC BOOKS AND MAGAZINES AND STORIES IN ILLUSTRATED FORM [(( ; CARDBOARD STAND-UP FIGURES; PLAYING CARDS; PAPER IRON-ON TRANSFER; ERASERS; PENCIL SHARPENERS; PENCILS; GLUE FOR OFFICE AND HOME USE, SUCH AS IS SOLD AS STATIONERY SUPPLY;] NOTEBOOKS AND STAMP ALBUMS )). FIRST USE: 19661000. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 19661000"
So, they technically can ONLY press this against comic book writers (and other publishers).
Sounds to me like the 5 mile walkie talkies that can function up to half a mile in ideal conditions. What ever happened to using more than a few percent ( 10% ) of the optical fiber laid. At least in a sheathed situation, the fiber is guarenteed to carry a significant amount of data rapidly. I'm also not sure how effective working on improving bandwidth is when the current tech is as faulty as it is. When I was in texas, I was across the street from my broad band provider, and had regular net outages several times a day.
One of these days, they should make enough space on the bot for equipment to repair the broken pieces. No need for a soldering iron, how about a silver marker and a jar of latex and a paintbrush. Instantly repair the broken terminals. If they're so worried about dust collecting on the solar panels, add windshield wipers or a brush or a blower. There's dozens of ways of improving the life expectancy of the bot.
Two words: Spanglesh & Engrish
Nice to carry around matches for when someone does that.