Basically, demonstrating CF would have a much bigger impact on our culture than the rail guns, decentralized non-polluting power grids, or affordable flying cars that practical CF promises. I wouldn't be so sure of that. If I've learned anything from playing FPS games, it's that you can't underestimate the effect of rail guns.
This has been discussed at length on doom9. It will be a little while until the new discs percolate into the market, but I don't doubt that they are coming. Of course, the longer it takes them to pull off an update, the more powerful the 09 key becomes.
I like how they are threatening people with the DMCA over the "09" key, while simultaneously pretending that it isn't a big deal. Maybe they should pick a consistent stance? Also, a better choice of words than "revoked" would be "stopped using", since the "09" key will work always work for any disks pressed before May, but it won't work for any disk made after then. Hm, I wonder how many titles that actually affects, maybe it isn't a big deal after all with such a tiny market:)
You, sir, are an idiot... but in my personal language, that's a compliment. Wouldn't it be best if we can agree on what things mean?
Do I think that there's irony in that open source people want well defined standards adhered to, so people can communicate and interoperate, while proprietary vendors want to fracture meanings and create their own standards, so that nobody speaks the same language and interoperability is difficult? No, that's not irony at all, that's exactly what you'd expect.
But this is Slashdot, where you are supposed to be unreasonable: I expect a Chinese-controlled firewall to be built into the cable at the 10,0000 km point, buried in hard seafloor under 2 miles of ocean. I heard it will also automatically enforce the DMCA, with a sideband control channel to the RIAA and MPAA headquarters.
Aren't you one of the people claiming normal users should never touch a command line? If so, what do you care about what the power users are using? If some car nuts are arguing over the best kind of high performance air filter, do you butt in and tell them that is why you can't buy the same brand of car? And if you want to insist on getting involved, are you really so thin-skinned you can't take a bit of argument? How do you deal with political discussion, or go anywhere online?
There is a long history of competition in OSS. If you can't deal with it, then you don't really appreciate the strength of OSS. Emacs vs vi, KDE vs Gnome, zsh vs bash, those arguments can go on forever. You get opinionated users, which I guess turns you off, but that competition spurs development. Zsh vs bash is a perfect example, as they are quite competitive (but I'll never say bash is better!) Is it really better with Windows, where everyone just uses the Microsoft app for everything, and their isn't any discussion or competition at all? "Cmd.exe, the best bundled Windows shell!"
No kidding. Japan already has some maglevs, including a high speed test prototype, and a "slow" one called Linimo which is already in Nagoya. Linimo is already being used for public transport, and I can tell you it works just fine, because I rode on it numerous times. I doubt it was cost-effective to build, but I'm glad that some nation is stepping forward to push the technology, as that's the only way it will become practical.
Lots of people don't know it exists. Ask a user what their favorite shell is, and it's a good test to see if they are a power user, whom will always answer "zsh". Bandwagon users, and traditionalists who don't keep track of new developments will answer something else. And, fellow command line users, before you flame me, try zsh. It is better in every way than all other normal shells. Command line completion of makefile targets and filenames over the network with scp pretty much sealed the deal...
That's not a particularly accurate characterization. GPUs are very wide, shared memory multiprocessors, while the Cell is a somewhat wide local memory multiprocessor. That is why the Playstation still needs a GPU; The Cell isn't really the best type of processor for current graphics approaches. The Cell design was started quite some time ago (new CPU architectures are not designed overnight), so I don't think it would be accurate to say the Cell is inspired by modern GPU design. Rather, it would be more accurate to say both were inspired by DSPs, which have been used for signal processing tasks for decades.
Also, I don't think I'd use the word "supercomputing" to describe the distributed signal processing for which GPUs are now being used. GPUs won't be used on "real" supercomputers until they decide to implement proper 64-bit IEEE 754 (floating point) support. In that sense, the Cell is more immediately useful for HPC, and along with IBMs presence in that area, you'll see a supercomputer using Cell chips first.
Well, what I should have said is "how do you define the general case of an angle between two non-coplanar lines". Perpendicular is a special case, and the crux of my proof is that two whole AA1C plane can be shown to be perpendicular to BD, therefore any line lying on that plane must be perpendicular to BD. Of course, I don't know that I'm not using vector properties that the Chinese students aren't allowed to use, but the article doesn't give us the information we'd need to determine that anyway.
I solved the first two parts for fun, but I have no idea what part (iii) is really asking for. How do you define the angle between two non-coplanar lines? Without an axis specified, the angle between the two doesn't have a unique solution AFAICT. What am I missing?
The whole point of the GP's example was that C was last. In that case, you seem to support the GP assertion. Please explain if the following scenario is accurate:
A invents X A publishes X B invents X B files patent on X A files patent on X B gets patent, A is screwed
Why wouldn't B get the patent, thus screwing original inventor A? Where does prior art even come into it in first-to-file? If B doesn't get the patent, shouldn't it really be called fist-to-publish rather than first-to-file? Of course, it's not like the patent office ever notices prior art anyway, since they've come out and said that they will rubber stamp just about anything and let the courts figure it out. Perhaps I am wrong (I certainly hope so), and if so please explain why, preferably with some sort of link to back it up.
Well it looks like PRAM is already winning on the practicality front. Two companies have PRAM chips at 128Mb or larger, and claim good density numbers. MRAM has only reached ~16Mb last I knew (although smaller ones can be bought right now). FeRAM, at least from Wikipedia, seems to suffer from density problems, as it can only be built on 350nm generation fabs (i.e. very old).
The only thing not mentioned is cost, but if it scales (Intel thinks it does), and the special glass just adds only one step to manufacturing (which the original developer claims), it doesn't look like there are too many roadblocks to success. Now, claiming it will replace DRAM may be a little premature, however there's a good hope they can replace flash at least.
Furthermore, will Intel make a "dual-core" model for those with twins?... or will they just make an "HT" model just 15% wider that they claim is for twins?
If youtube forces ads which are annoying, people will leave youtube for another site that doesn't have inline ads. There's nothing to see here, let competition do its thing.
Personally I wouldn't object to a 5 second ad in front of my youtube videos, or 0-30 second ads after my videos. Like I said though, if they make it annoying to watch videos, I'll just put mine up elsewhere.
Add to that the seeming "spread" of this phenomenon. If this was a slow process in the US and Europe as cell phones increased, it would make more sense than some sort of more immediate collapse like we've seen. Maybe if they can show that adding new cell phone towers kills bees in the area, it would make sense. Until then, I'd guess it was some sort of virus/fungus/mite/parasite, or a chemical in a new (i.e. GM) crop.
Hopefully the strong bees will survive, and repollinate the earth.
So, how does money buy you DNA evidence, turn the prosecutor in an overactive publicity seeker, and make your accuser keep changing her story? Please cite some specifics.
In this case, it looks like money kept innocent people out of jail -- If they were poor, they would be innocent people going to jail. That's the only difference. The lesson is that we should let the courts decide the truth rather than the media. It sounded like they were guilty, because it was a plausible story, and I figured they were guilty too. Then came the DNA evidence which failed to link any player on the team, changing stories by the accuser, and Nifong's obvious megalomania. Yet for much of the media, it was still full-steam ahead.
Robot can mean almost anything now, as the term has been diluted so much. You have to specify any additional properties, which is why in all my research I refer to "autonomous robots". Current factory robots are an interesting case of being sort-of autonomous; The only decision they make based on sensor input is whether to halt on a detected fault, otherwise they are just replaying a recorded trajectory. For robots sometimes controlled by humans, the most common term is "partial autonomy". Hardly anyone uses the term telerobot; If someone doesn't say what kind of robot you can usually assume the simplest implementation (remote control, or pre-recorded motions).
Well, that's a case of such a set of guidelines working because: (1) The object is detected as an unmanned missile (2) No humans are around the target (3) It's coming straight for us!
In that case, it would require human approval to engage a target, unless said target starts shooting. What else would you expect? It's not like the AI is going to be able to make a distinction that humans can't even make reliably.
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date bought != date manufactured
This has been discussed at length on doom9. It will be a little while until the new discs percolate into the market, but I don't doubt that they are coming. Of course, the longer it takes them to pull off an update, the more powerful the 09 key becomes.
I like how they are threatening people with the DMCA over the "09" key, while simultaneously pretending that it isn't a big deal. Maybe they should pick a consistent stance? Also, a better choice of words than "revoked" would be "stopped using", since the "09" key will work always work for any disks pressed before May, but it won't work for any disk made after then. Hm, I wonder how many titles that actually affects, maybe it isn't a big deal after all with such a tiny market :)
You, sir, are an idiot... but in my personal language, that's a compliment. Wouldn't it be best if we can agree on what things mean?
Do I think that there's irony in that open source people want well defined standards adhered to, so people can communicate and interoperate, while proprietary vendors want to fracture meanings and create their own standards, so that nobody speaks the same language and interoperability is difficult? No, that's not irony at all, that's exactly what you'd expect.
Anyone know of any maps of the proposed cable route?
But this is Slashdot, where you are supposed to be unreasonable: I expect a Chinese-controlled firewall to be built into the cable at the 10,0000 km point, buried in hard seafloor under 2 miles of ocean. I heard it will also automatically enforce the DMCA, with a sideband control channel to the RIAA and MPAA headquarters.
You use sh?
Aren't you one of the people claiming normal users should never touch a command line? If so, what do you care about what the power users are using? If some car nuts are arguing over the best kind of high performance air filter, do you butt in and tell them that is why you can't buy the same brand of car? And if you want to insist on getting involved, are you really so thin-skinned you can't take a bit of argument? How do you deal with political discussion, or go anywhere online?
There is a long history of competition in OSS. If you can't deal with it, then you don't really appreciate the strength of OSS. Emacs vs vi, KDE vs Gnome, zsh vs bash, those arguments can go on forever. You get opinionated users, which I guess turns you off, but that competition spurs development. Zsh vs bash is a perfect example, as they are quite competitive (but I'll never say bash is better!) Is it really better with Windows, where everyone just uses the Microsoft app for everything, and their isn't any discussion or competition at all? "Cmd.exe, the best bundled Windows shell!"
No kidding. Japan already has some maglevs, including a high speed test prototype, and a "slow" one called Linimo which is already in Nagoya. Linimo is already being used for public transport, and I can tell you it works just fine, because I rode on it numerous times. I doubt it was cost-effective to build, but I'm glad that some nation is stepping forward to push the technology, as that's the only way it will become practical.
Lots of people don't know it exists. Ask a user what their favorite shell is, and it's a good test to see if they are a power user, whom will always answer "zsh". Bandwagon users, and traditionalists who don't keep track of new developments will answer something else. And, fellow command line users, before you flame me, try zsh. It is better in every way than all other normal shells. Command line completion of makefile targets and filenames over the network with scp pretty much sealed the deal...
That's not a particularly accurate characterization. GPUs are very wide, shared memory multiprocessors, while the Cell is a somewhat wide local memory multiprocessor. That is why the Playstation still needs a GPU; The Cell isn't really the best type of processor for current graphics approaches. The Cell design was started quite some time ago (new CPU architectures are not designed overnight), so I don't think it would be accurate to say the Cell is inspired by modern GPU design. Rather, it would be more accurate to say both were inspired by DSPs, which have been used for signal processing tasks for decades.
Also, I don't think I'd use the word "supercomputing" to describe the distributed signal processing for which GPUs are now being used. GPUs won't be used on "real" supercomputers until they decide to implement proper 64-bit IEEE 754 (floating point) support. In that sense, the Cell is more immediately useful for HPC, and along with IBMs presence in that area, you'll see a supercomputer using Cell chips first.
Well, what I should have said is "how do you define the general case of an angle between two non-coplanar lines". Perpendicular is a special case, and the crux of my proof is that two whole AA1C plane can be shown to be perpendicular to BD, therefore any line lying on that plane must be perpendicular to BD. Of course, I don't know that I'm not using vector properties that the Chinese students aren't allowed to use, but the article doesn't give us the information we'd need to determine that anyway.
I solved the first two parts for fun, but I have no idea what part (iii) is really asking for. How do you define the angle between two non-coplanar lines? Without an axis specified, the angle between the two doesn't have a unique solution AFAICT. What am I missing?
If by "goddess", you mean "gives children nightmares", then I'm right with you.
Yeah, now all you need is a pterodactyl.
The whole point of the GP's example was that C was last. In that case, you seem to support the GP assertion. Please explain if the following scenario is accurate:
A invents X
A publishes X
B invents X
B files patent on X
A files patent on X
B gets patent, A is screwed
Why wouldn't B get the patent, thus screwing original inventor A? Where does prior art even come into it in first-to-file? If B doesn't get the patent, shouldn't it really be called fist-to-publish rather than first-to-file? Of course, it's not like the patent office ever notices prior art anyway, since they've come out and said that they will rubber stamp just about anything and let the courts figure it out. Perhaps I am wrong (I certainly hope so), and if so please explain why, preferably with some sort of link to back it up.
Well it looks like PRAM is already winning on the practicality front. Two companies have PRAM chips at 128Mb or larger, and claim good density numbers. MRAM has only reached ~16Mb last I knew (although smaller ones can be bought right now). FeRAM, at least from Wikipedia, seems to suffer from density problems, as it can only be built on 350nm generation fabs (i.e. very old).
The only thing not mentioned is cost, but if it scales (Intel thinks it does), and the special glass just adds only one step to manufacturing (which the original developer claims), it doesn't look like there are too many roadblocks to success. Now, claiming it will replace DRAM may be a little premature, however there's a good hope they can replace flash at least.
Furthermore, will Intel make a "dual-core" model for those with twins?... or will they just make an "HT" model just 15% wider that they claim is for twins?
If youtube forces ads which are annoying, people will leave youtube for another site that doesn't have inline ads. There's nothing to see here, let competition do its thing.
Personally I wouldn't object to a 5 second ad in front of my youtube videos, or 0-30 second ads after my videos. Like I said though, if they make it annoying to watch videos, I'll just put mine up elsewhere.
Add to that the seeming "spread" of this phenomenon. If this was a slow process in the US and Europe as cell phones increased, it would make more sense than some sort of more immediate collapse like we've seen. Maybe if they can show that adding new cell phone towers kills bees in the area, it would make sense. Until then, I'd guess it was some sort of virus/fungus/mite/parasite, or a chemical in a new (i.e. GM) crop.
Hopefully the strong bees will survive, and repollinate the earth.
So, how does money buy you DNA evidence, turn the prosecutor in an overactive publicity seeker, and make your accuser keep changing her story? Please cite some specifics.
In this case, it looks like money kept innocent people out of jail -- If they were poor, they would be innocent people going to jail. That's the only difference. The lesson is that we should let the courts decide the truth rather than the media. It sounded like they were guilty, because it was a plausible story, and I figured they were guilty too. Then came the DNA evidence which failed to link any player on the team, changing stories by the accuser, and Nifong's obvious megalomania. Yet for much of the media, it was still full-steam ahead.
Robot can mean almost anything now, as the term has been diluted so much. You have to specify any additional properties, which is why in all my research I refer to "autonomous robots". Current factory robots are an interesting case of being sort-of autonomous; The only decision they make based on sensor input is whether to halt on a detected fault, otherwise they are just replaying a recorded trajectory. For robots sometimes controlled by humans, the most common term is "partial autonomy". Hardly anyone uses the term telerobot; If someone doesn't say what kind of robot you can usually assume the simplest implementation (remote control, or pre-recorded motions).
Well, that's a case of such a set of guidelines working because:
(1) The object is detected as an unmanned missile
(2) No humans are around the target
(3) It's coming straight for us!
How does it work with un-uniformed combatants?
In that case, it would require human approval to engage a target, unless said target starts shooting. What else would you expect? It's not like the AI is going to be able to make a distinction that humans can't even make reliably.
I've heard that eating a mirror was bad luck.
Nothing came up on Snopes.com, so it must be true...