Bittorrent did not come up with p2p. They did come up with swarming. The idea is if everyone downloads once and sends once, the net cost to the main server is 1 upload. Granted, it doesn't work to the theoretical limit, but it's pretty damn good at conserving bandwidth.
If bittorrent is patented... which it doesn't appear it ever can be, then this would be a problem. If Microsoft claims they invented it, that's pretty major BS, but that's it. If this stays visible as a variant of p2p file sharing, then it will hold some ground for the rest of the industry. Maybe the best thing to do is to use this to point out that p2p has solid legal uses and value.
This is why we need to get OLED screens on the market. By havinging emissive optical elements for each pixel, there is a direct correlation between the color of the screen and the power used that is far more significant than the on-off states of lcd pixels.
On an OLED screen, black consumes significantly less power.
E-mail is theoretically free (scratch the charges associated with how you in particular want to connect to the internet, but realistically, there are free services available if you want them)
Texting costs far more when companies like VZW charge up to 15 cents a message (comparing bandwidth between a text and a phone call, this has yet to make any sense to me)
I have to wonder about whether e-mail is going to the wayside as the article portrays. I agree with the parent post in that regard.
"You are a programmer, not a computer scientist. I'd hire you to write code based on a specification. I wouldn't hire you to design rendering algorithms. It is too bad they didn't teach you the difference between compsci and programming during day one of your CS program."
THANK YOU!!!!!
If you are interested in writing code rapidly, you don't necessarily need a math background. If you're interested in writing code well (small file size, small memory size, fast execution) then you had better understand what the mathematics behind the program are. ESPECIALLY if you want to be able to prove that your algorithm is smaller, cleaner, and faster.
It's the difference between advancing the state of the art, and just getting something to work.
You clearly overlook all the problems we brute force our way through. There are many uses for HUGE COMPUTATIONAL THROUGHPUT in the business world. This value extends far beyond grand challenge problems, and touches corporate databases, data analysis, and automation.
For a fun and amusing example, how many weblogs do you think the RIAA would have to go through to actually be able to prove that one single illegal transaction occurred. Now what is that computer going to do that involves user input? I would imagine the compute time is greater in this case (it doesn't even need to be Network IO bound if they're archived records).
Clearly, all these problems would be solved if the RIAA and MPAA sued Microsoft over their use of zip compression and its aiding in the piracy of audio...:D Damn that's hard to say with a straight face.
There clearly need to be more ISP providers out there for cable. It's either Time Warner or Dial-up in many areas. I don't like it either, but if you can't break the monopoly, what are you going to do about it?
It will make it so that if they want to put a legal worker on the list, it immediately becomes challenging for them to get work among people who do hire within the bounds of the law...
Red Scare bring up memories?
He's a commun... terrorist. Lets keep him from working ever again.
I feel that it's not as cut and dry as that. If a kid is about to put their hand on a hot stove, smacking the hand reinforces the idea that the kid is about to burn themselves without permanently scarring the child.
Beating a child is another thing all together.
There are times when parents should be able to strike their child as a form of discipline. There are more times when parents who don't get it abuse that and make it so the rest of society is shocked at the idea of using any form of physical contact to stop a child from misbehaving.
In the same breath, I think that if you can, physical discipline should be avoided, but it should be able to be used when the actions the child is planning to take would result in injury far beyond the physical discipline, whether to the kid or to someone else.
People need to stop looking toward aluminum as a power source. Yes, we know, it reacts well with everything... Theres a reason you don't naturally find ingots of pure aluminum... The issue is, you've already dumped a ton of energy into refining it, and the likelyhood that you're going to recover that energy when restoring the aluminum to its pure state is only there if you're using it to generate a nuclear reaction, or as a catalyst.
The aluminum should not be consumed by the reaction... Then I'll be interested.
Also, gallium is a great choice of rare liquid metals... You can get a similar reaction using mercury, but I'm sure the EPA would be thrilled by that.
I'd imagine it's easier to apply and remove quantities of this stuff than it is to do the same with antibodies.
I'm more interested in whether this works similar to enzymes in that the viruses that match the shape present in the gel could potentially form in the gel. Granted, it's a many times more complex molecule, but it's an interesting thought.
It's hot enough that typical glass starts to ooze. Much hotter than that (1600-2000) and you reach typical hot shop temperatures where glass blowing is done.
The concept is that if the system has a set of information (which could be an extensive database of info specific to a given system), another chip or element in the system could theoretically ask questions about it. If the two chips exist in the same system, there are limitless resources available for them to mutually read off of to generate enough hashed content to act as a unique passcode. It could even be based on your personal viewing patterns.
I'd like to see more about how they do it. Does anyone have a link to the application itself?
You do realize that a lot of nations who disagree with western politics are infact developing their own space agencies, their own semiconductor industries, and are working their way to becoming technological world powers if they're not already considered political world powers.
"Sure, China won't get it's satellite comm systems straight from the US, but I will bet you anything that western states allied against certain blocks of nations will direct limited amounts of tech into Chinese (and other) hands"
Hints that you don't realize that that's what people are doing...
3 countries have successfully put people into space: USA (Astronauts), Russia (Cosmonauts), and China (Tychonauts)
It doesn't take as much effort to put a satellite into orbit as it takes to put a person up there.
What problem are you paying Microsoft to fix that it created?
It's OS has free updates.
Office has free updates.
Their powertoys are free, and that remedies a large number of complaints about their software.
You pay your employees to write better code that supports IE7 and the actual HTML standard.
I'm sorry, I just don't seem to see where they are "making money by selling a solution to a problem that [they] created (or that [they] intentionally [allow] to continue to exist),"...
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Bittorrent did not come up with p2p. They did come up with swarming. The idea is if everyone downloads once and sends once, the net cost to the main server is 1 upload. Granted, it doesn't work to the theoretical limit, but it's pretty damn good at conserving bandwidth.
If bittorrent is patented... which it doesn't appear it ever can be, then this would be a problem. If Microsoft claims they invented it, that's pretty major BS, but that's it. If this stays visible as a variant of p2p file sharing, then it will hold some ground for the rest of the industry. Maybe the best thing to do is to use this to point out that p2p has solid legal uses and value.
This is why we need to get OLED screens on the market. By havinging emissive optical elements for each pixel, there is a direct correlation between the color of the screen and the power used that is far more significant than the on-off states of lcd pixels.
On an OLED screen, black consumes significantly less power.
Agreed, I don't know how the intro to the article can drop that statements when nintendo has this:
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Zelda: http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=uzm6DQbya
Mario: http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=rOhwzYb_m
Metroid: http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=xsLZ8sftL
and for good measure:
Pokemon: http://www.nintendo.com/gamemini?gameid=lXtLHZS0K
et. al.
They seem to have a pretty solid foundation in sequels to classics
this brings up the age old question
Where's the money coming from?
E-mail is theoretically free (scratch the charges associated with how you in particular want to connect to the internet, but realistically, there are free services available if you want them)
Texting costs far more when companies like VZW charge up to 15 cents a message (comparing bandwidth between a text and a phone call, this has yet to make any sense to me)
I have to wonder about whether e-mail is going to the wayside as the article portrays.
I agree with the parent post in that regard.
"You are a programmer, not a computer scientist. I'd hire you to write code based on a specification. I wouldn't hire you to design rendering algorithms. It is too bad they didn't teach you the difference between compsci and programming during day one of your CS program."
THANK YOU!!!!!
If you are interested in writing code rapidly, you don't necessarily need a math background. If you're interested in writing code well (small file size, small memory size, fast execution) then you had better understand what the mathematics
behind the program are. ESPECIALLY if you want to be able to prove that your algorithm is smaller, cleaner, and faster.
It's the difference between advancing the state of the art, and just getting something to work.
Script Kiddies have more ego than they've earned.
I do as well.
1, 2, 3, World, and 64.
Although I don't know which order I would put them in, my top five would definitly have
Mario Bros 3
Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Metroid Prime (The Original, Not Echoes)
My top 10 would have the above and
Super Metroid
Chu Chu Rocket
Sonic Adventure
Tetris Sphere
Cave Story (Doukutsu Monogatari)
Half Life
Earth Bound
Super Mario World
I'm not sure which two in the lower list would also go into the top 5...
If everything in the chip is lining up so nicely, how about calling it
THE SYZYGY
no, I'm not making up the word. If you don't believe me, http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/syzygy
You clearly overlook all the problems we brute force our way through.
There are many uses for HUGE COMPUTATIONAL THROUGHPUT in the business world.
This value extends far beyond grand challenge problems, and touches corporate databases, data analysis, and automation.
For a fun and amusing example, how many weblogs do you think the RIAA would have to go through to actually be able to prove that one single illegal transaction occurred. Now what is that computer going to do that involves user input? I would imagine the compute time is greater in this case (it doesn't even need to be Network IO bound if they're archived records).
The thing I find frightening is the number of radical religious lunatics who are out there, and how much of an impact they are making on the world.
It stands on its own that there is a HEADLINE about it in a SLASHDOT article. How is it that we've let this slip as far as it has?
Clearly, all these problems would be solved if the RIAA and MPAA sued Microsoft over their use of zip compression and its aiding in the piracy of audio... :D
Damn that's hard to say with a straight face.
I would be concerned if a man had achieved the "longest spaceflight by a woman"
There clearly need to be more ISP providers out there for cable. It's either Time Warner or Dial-up in many areas. I don't like it either, but if you can't break the monopoly, what are you going to do about it?
This is different. This is more like saying that every time you use the word 'the' while talking on the phone, you owe the government 1 cent.
It will make it so that if they want to put a legal worker on the list, it immediately becomes challenging for them to get work among people who do hire within the bounds of the law...
Red Scare bring up memories?
He's a commun... terrorist. Lets keep him from working ever again.
Nice, never heard of that one before.
I definitly agree with that.
India, we'd like you to meet the RIAA.
I feel that it's not as cut and dry as that.
If a kid is about to put their hand on a hot stove, smacking the hand reinforces
the idea that the kid is about to burn themselves without permanently scarring the
child.
Beating a child is another thing all together.
There are times when parents should be able to strike their child as a form of
discipline. There are more times when parents who don't get it abuse that and
make it so the rest of society is shocked at the idea of using any form of
physical contact to stop a child from misbehaving.
In the same breath, I think that if you can, physical discipline should be avoided,
but it should be able to be used when the actions the child is planning to take
would result in injury far beyond the physical discipline, whether to the kid or
to someone else.
People need to stop looking toward aluminum as a power source.
Yes, we know, it reacts well with everything... Theres a reason you don't
naturally find ingots of pure aluminum... The issue is, you've already
dumped a ton of energy into refining it, and the likelyhood that you're
going to recover that energy when restoring the aluminum to its pure state
is only there if you're using it to generate a nuclear reaction, or as a
catalyst.
The aluminum should not be consumed by the reaction... Then I'll be interested.
Also, gallium is a great choice of rare liquid metals... You can get a similar
reaction using mercury, but I'm sure the EPA would be thrilled by that.
That's my take on the whole thing.
I'd imagine it's easier to apply and remove quantities of this stuff than it is to do the same with antibodies.
I'm more interested in whether this works similar to enzymes in that the viruses that match the shape present in the gel could potentially form in the gel. Granted, it's a many times more complex molecule, but it's an interesting thought.
It's hot enough that typical glass starts to ooze. Much hotter than that (1600-2000) and you reach typical hot shop temperatures where glass blowing is done.
The idea isn't unheard of, and it's not exactly a password system from the sound of it.
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Examples of similar systems:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenge-response_a
The concept is that if the system has a set of information (which could be an extensive database of info specific to a given system), another chip or element in the system could theoretically ask questions about it. If the two chips exist in the same system, there are limitless resources available for them to mutually read off of to generate enough hashed content to act as a unique passcode. It could even be based on your personal viewing patterns.
I'd like to see more about how they do it. Does anyone have a link to the application itself?
You do realize that a lot of nations who disagree with western politics are infact developing their own space agencies, their own semiconductor industries, and are working their way to becoming technological world powers if they're not already considered political world powers.
"Sure, China won't get it's satellite comm systems straight from the US, but I will bet you anything that western states allied against certain blocks of nations will direct limited amounts of tech into Chinese (and other) hands"
Hints that you don't realize that that's what people are doing...
3 countries have successfully put people into space: USA (Astronauts), Russia (Cosmonauts), and China (Tychonauts)
It doesn't take as much effort to put a satellite into orbit as it takes to put a person up there.
Unless you have progress quest installed
Then they're clearly spent levelling your demicanadian motorcycle.
I clearly needed to say "Everyone hates Microsoft" in that post for it to be modded well.
What problem are you paying Microsoft to fix that it created?
It's OS has free updates.
Office has free updates.
Their powertoys are free, and that remedies a large number of complaints about their software.
You pay your employees to write better code that supports IE7 and the actual HTML standard.
I'm sorry, I just don't seem to see where they are "making money by selling a solution to a problem that [they] created (or that [they] intentionally [allow] to continue to exist),"...