How does it make you feel thinking about a bot using NLP? Imagine a warm, bright light that shines on your face which is a bot using NLP. Feel it sink through your forehead, making you feel all warm and relaxed. Feel the power of the bot using NLP.
So far there's one big difference though: "Ripping" books is much harder than CDs. I've seen some scanned books and the quality is just what you pay for. OCR still sucks apparently.
with $0.99 books on iTunes? Or is Apple going to integrate an e-book reader into the next iPod? In the end it all boils down to display resolution and power consumption. The rest is trivial.
Seconded. I've been using Synergy between my Windows and Linux desktops and it's seamless - you roll the mouse cursor across the edge of the screen and the other system has focus. I only have to use the KVM to switch over to the Linux box (yeah, I'll admit it, Windows is still my main desktop at work, so sue me) after the screen went to power save mode, and for text consoles. Is there a command line utility to tell X to wake up the display?
I have to agree. The only thing that's keeping ebook readers from taking the world is their closed nature. Now an open device with an e-ink display that can run for a couple of days on a charge (99.9% on standby of course) and can read the usual formats... that would be something I'd buy in a heartbeat. Right now I still read e-books on my laptop (tried the phone but it doesn't have enough resolution for comfortable reading.)
Easier solution: Put the browser in a VM sandbox that drops all changes to the filesystem once you're done. That's actually something an OS should support: Executing a non-trusted image in a VM. Somehow I think that should not be too hard with KVM but I haven't read enough about it.
Sounds familiar. What you're looking for is microcode and a writable control store. Pretty common in minis back in the day. And to some degree we have it in today's CISC CPUs if you look at the microcode patches that BIOSes load into certain CPUs although it's probably only used to fix bugs, er, errata.
I saw a cop on a Segway at the airport a couple of weeks ago and for the life of me I couldn't understand what benefits such a clumsy way of moving around might have over walking. Save some of the calories from donuts? Employ disabled cops? I don't get it.
If you look at the brazillions of transistors they throw at caches, execution units and now multiple cores, it's pretty clear that the designers don't really know what to do with all those transistors. The x86-to-micro-ops translation unit is just a very small part of the CPU. I see it as a real time decompression engine, with x86 code somewhat more compact than RISC. Given that RAM bandwidth is always a major limitation, this even makes sense.
Actually I do work in an office. But we work on relatively large SW projects where paper documentation is not feasible. OTOH I get on the order of 100 emails per day.
The CPU cycles are probably not the worst. It gets bad when one of those processes decides that it needs to do something it hasn't done in a while, pages in a lot of memory, which pages out much of your application(s). The next time you switch to one of those apps it takes more than a second to page in (at least from a slow-ish laptop drive.) And unfortunately that is almost independent of how much RAM you have. Don't ask me how MS accomplishes that. I turned off paging some time ago and am much happier on average. Usually when I run out of memory Firefox dies (which is the biggest RAM hog anyway), but that only happens every couple of days. Time for a 64-bit laptop with 4 or 6 GB I guess...
Cool idea, but pretty soon people would notice that they don't really need the x86 if the ARM can do browsing and email. So, Intel is not going to like this idea. OTOH, if someone made something like a Netbook with an ARM and an e-ink display it would run for days on a charge. A Kindle on steroids.
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How does it make you feel thinking about a bot using NLP? Imagine a warm, bright light that shines on your face which is a bot using NLP. Feel it sink through your forehead, making you feel all warm and relaxed. Feel the power of the bot using NLP.
So far there's one big difference though: "Ripping" books is much harder than CDs. I've seen some scanned books and the quality is just what you pay for. OCR still sucks apparently.
with $0.99 books on iTunes?
Or is Apple going to integrate an e-book reader into the next iPod?
In the end it all boils down to display resolution and power consumption. The rest is trivial.
That did it. Thanks!
Ok I'm a wimp. I created an icon for
C:\cygwin\bin\run.exe ssh me@mylinuxbox 'DISPLAY=:0.0 xset dpms force on'
Just thought I'd ask.
Seconded. I've been using Synergy between my Windows and Linux desktops and it's seamless - you roll the mouse cursor across the edge of the screen and the other system has focus. I only have to use the KVM to switch over to the Linux box (yeah, I'll admit it, Windows is still my main desktop at work, so sue me) after the screen went to power save mode, and for text consoles. Is there a command line utility to tell X to wake up the display?
I have to agree. The only thing that's keeping ebook readers from taking the world is their closed nature.
Now an open device with an e-ink display that can run for a couple of days on a charge (99.9% on standby of course) and can read the usual formats... that would be something I'd buy in a heartbeat. Right now I still read e-books on my laptop (tried the phone but it doesn't have enough resolution for comfortable reading.)
Easier solution: Put the browser in a VM sandbox that drops all changes to the filesystem once you're done. That's actually something an OS should support: Executing a non-trusted image in a VM. Somehow I think that should not be too hard with KVM but I haven't read enough about it.
Nope. We have B, we have C and the one language to rule them all has source files ending in .PL
Amen.
>with the programmer productivity of modern languages like Ruby and Python.
Now if there had been Perl in that sentence I might be interested.
What will Jack Thompson say?
Looks like you just found a reliable way to detect IE8.
consequently is illegal at a federal level.
Yeah, just like smoking pot.
Sounds familiar. What you're looking for is microcode and a writable control store. Pretty common in minis back in the day. And to some degree we have it in today's CISC CPUs if you look at the microcode patches that BIOSes load into certain CPUs although it's probably only used to fix bugs, er, errata.
I saw a cop on a Segway at the airport a couple of weeks ago and for the life of me I couldn't understand what benefits such a clumsy way of moving around might have over walking. Save some of the calories from donuts? Employ disabled cops? I don't get it.
If you look at the brazillions of transistors they throw at caches, execution units and now multiple cores, it's pretty clear that the designers don't really know what to do with all those transistors. The x86-to-micro-ops translation unit is just a very small part of the CPU. I see it as a real time decompression engine, with x86 code somewhat more compact than RISC. Given that RAM bandwidth is always a major limitation, this even makes sense.
Coral cache:
http://www.opensourcereleasefeed.com.nyud.net/interview/show/five-questions-with-michael-widenius-founder-and-original-developer-of-mysql
Funny? This should have been modded Insightful.
Actually I do work in an office. But we work on relatively large SW projects where paper documentation is not feasible.
OTOH I get on the order of 100 emails per day.
The CPU cycles are probably not the worst. It gets bad when one of those processes decides that it needs to do something it hasn't done in a while, pages in a lot of memory, which pages out much of your application(s). The next time you switch to one of those apps it takes more than a second to page in (at least from a slow-ish laptop drive.)
And unfortunately that is almost independent of how much RAM you have. Don't ask me how MS accomplishes that. I turned off paging some time ago and am much happier on average. Usually when I run out of memory Firefox dies (which is the biggest RAM hog anyway), but that only happens every couple of days.
Time for a 64-bit laptop with 4 or 6 GB I guess...
Sounds promising, until you go to open Notepad and you find out you need to install it.
Hallelujah! Then I might as well install a decent text editor.
Now, the main question is: Why exactly doesn't Windows have a repository/installer system?
Printing? Isn't that the process of making black marks on dead trees?
I can only remember printing one file in recent history (couple of months.) And that was to stick it into the fax machine.
And nuclear and conventional power don't need generators?
Cool idea, but pretty soon people would notice that they don't really need the x86 if the ARM can do browsing and email. So, Intel is not going to like this idea.
OTOH, if someone made something like a Netbook with an ARM and an e-ink display it would run for days on a charge. A Kindle on steroids.
Cool. Somebody tell Borland!
Coffee grounds have a high oil content and can be turned into biodiesel:
http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=could-coffee-be-the-alternative-fue-2008-12-10