Computer Science

Is it because modern day programmers have never heard of a hole punch or is it due to something more sinister? I refer to the modern practice of failing to provide a proper binding margin on documents designed for computer printout. Organisations large and small, government and private seem more and more prone to this failing. Here is an example. Only the left hand column heading is detroyed in this case, but I have plenty of invoices where consignment information is lost.

The biggest lesson that can be read from 70 years of AI research is that general methods that leverage computation are ultimately the most effective, and by a large margin. According to Deepmind's Richard Sutton the bitterness is that injecting human knowledge into an AI systems results only in short term gains and that general statistical methods that leverage computational power perform much better in the the mid to long term. GPT-3 has 175 billion parameters and doesn't seem to be approaching the limit of what a simply bigger model can do. Some speculate GPT-4 will have trillions of parameters. A debate between Yann Lecun and Gary Marcus shows there is a spl…

A while ago my friend sent me a link to what was known as the boobies script. It was a picture of a topless girl holding a piece of paper that said "I love" and then text the user submitted himself. The writing looked as if it was a real picture, and it was quite popular. I havent been able to find any working ones on the web, but I did find a site that explains how to set one up (none are available because it became so popular that it used too much bandwidth). The site that explains how to do it is: http://www.xs4all.nl/~slagers/boobies/ I want to set it up on my site, but the directions on this site are minimal. Check out the site, and if you are knowledgeable …

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They say that to understand the history of something, you can't be too close to the events. So I am referring to something that happened about 20 years ago, namely when pascal and turbo pascal started to become popular and started to substitute basic as the programming language for home/PC computers. That is the day computers died. Pascal was the next "big thing" and cool and also "harder" so it started to pick up. Basic slowly started to become out of style. But the question I asked then and I still ask today is "why say an old thing in a new way ?" I also guess that is when programmers started running out of ideas. When you run out of new ideas invent a new programming …

Hello everybody, I'm getting confused with these two things, they happen to be used interchangeably but they are not really similar, so if anyone of you guys can help me out to find what is the difference between these two things, Please help me out!!!!

I have no coding skills (apart from html) and so no expertise in computing at all. But I have often tried to grapple in my mind with the relationship between the concept of software versus hardware. In reality do these phenomena overlap or is there a strict demarcation ? I can see they have to interact or nothing will happen ,so is there a region that is composed of both elements? Any software has to be written onto a physical component .Is that physical component(eg a hard drive) considered part of the hardware ? Is everything physical inside the hard drive of a computer part of the hardware? Where does the software start ? I…

Abstract: popular systems for representing numbers in a computer are considered. Serious shortcomings of the IEEE 754 system are revealed, and options for systems to replace it are proposed. It's shown that addition is enough to perform calculations with numbers. Link to the article: github.com/shadenova/Nova/blob/main/The End of IEEE 754.pdf

I just can't believe that lack of common sense that the EU has. Just read this article: http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/29/news/international/eu_microsoft.reut/index.htm They said, "We are concerned about the possibility that the next Vista operating system will include various elements which are currently available separately from Microsoft or other companies." This is absolutely the craziest thing I've ever heard. My car came with a car stereo, and those are available separately from other companies. I guess the automobile companies should be fined money too... Why can't they understand that sometimes products need to be included with other products? Imagine …

So take a look at the video below. The idea is when you run a retro game in modern CPU you can run it in turbo speed. With such a mechanism applied to an emulator, I want to run Python program in turbo speed. I know it might not be possible with Python because of its vast libraries, but perhaps I can gear up an exe executable with this method?

... is an Apple Macintosh. This according to PC World magazine, in a recent test of a dozen Vista laptops. This rather earth-shattering piece of news has been shaking up the Windows computer vendor industry, with companies like Dell, already suffering from falling user opinion, suddenly finding that they're not producing anything LIKE the correct performance numbers that Vista should be capable of, something that Vista users have been screaming about since early beta. http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,136649-page,3-c,notebooks/article.html And one of the most interesting things about this development is that the Mac doesn't cost significantly more than th…

Samsung's boffins have made a breakthrough when it comes to a new transistor structure which utilises graphene, in research that was published online in the journal Science. The company claims the advance brings us one step nearer to replacing silicon transistors with graphene. As Samsung notes, the industry has been increasing the speed of devices - the performance of semi-conductors - by scaling down technology, reducing transistor size and the distance electrons must travel. However, the potential limits of such scaling down are being reached, scientists reckon. And a switch to a material with higher electron mobility - which also allows for faster electron…

hey I was arguing over what was the best graphics card out today I heard from an uncle of mine who has a twenty thousand dollar pc and such that there is a card out that costs over $2000 it is very hard to find, and not sold in stores you need connections to find it anyone of you ever heard of it? I was thinking of getting it if I could oh well

BASIC, now known for it's simplicity, was written in 1964 at Dartmouth College by John G. Kemeney and Thomas E. Kurtz. BASIC is an acronym for Beginners All-puprose Symbolic Instruction Code. BASIC was originally meant to be a "stepping stone" for other languages such as FORTRAN (created from 1954-1957) and ALGOL (ALGOrithmic Language, created in the late 1950s). The first BASIC considered to be a full language implemented on a microprocessor was Li Chen Wang's "Tiny Basic", which appeared in Dr. Dobbs. BASIC was the first product sold by the Microsoft corporation, and also the first major case of software piracy. It was copied widely even before Microsoft m…

Hi everybody, this is my first post on SFN, and I'm really glad to be here. I'll try to make some good threads, posts, etc. And lend what help I can to those who need it. So, I'm a real computer geek at heart, but I'm essentially a gamer primarily, so most of my threads will be about such things. Anyway, this thread addresses the importance of DirectX 10. As some might know, this is a Vista - exclusive piece of software that is really the gateway to nice effects for all games in the future. But, so far, its only been used in 3 games, and has been frowned upon by many gamers for being a Vista - exclusive, due to the fact that using Vista drastically reduces framerate…

Hi I am an avid programmer, and have a solid understanding of the basic fundamentals of the C and HTML Programming Languages. However, I participated in the regional informatics olympiad and was completely disheartened. The questions involved use of complex algorithms and I had never studied them before. (http://ioinformatics.org/index.shtml ). To be able to participate in IoI , students need to score well in the regional olympiads held in every country. A rough guideline for the syllabus can be found over here : http://www.ioi2009.org/GetResource?id=32 Should I upgrade my knowledge-base to the C++ Programming Language? If so, please suggest me releva…

For school I had to do a report on the Anti-Trust lawsuit thats still going on. And when I was looking up inormation about it. I came to some on Bill Gates life. Now, Bill Gates wasnt lucky. And yes he is a normal man. I don't care what you say. Gates wasn't lucky. He simply marketed the right thing at the right time. Don't be jealous cause he has more money then you. He took an idea, and had a good marketing pitch. He started off programing small stuff for companies then created microsoft. And launced his first OS from there. He's not lucky, he knew what he was doing. Calling Bill Gates lucky is just showing your ignorant. Calling him anything else, is aOk.

The Second Life server is going open source: http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=142 Linden (its creator) hopes to create a fully distributed, interoperable virtual world

The latest round of cyber invasions is really starting to shape up like a real life cyberpunk novel. If the original design of the internet was flawed, is this one of the reasons why protected systems can still be thwarted and manipulated? If the majority of the world used Unix-based systems, would we be much better off security-wise, or would the level of malware be just as equally advanced? I'm starting to see how perhaps some of these big corporation's hacked computers are not necessarily backroom computers running Windows 98 or the like. What will happen to make things more secure, when a full deck of security software and a router just isn't enough?

The latest round of cyber invasions is really starting to shape up like a real life cyberpunk novel. If the original design of the internet was flawed, is this one of the reasons why protected systems can still be thwarted and manipulated? If the majority of the world used Unix-based systems, would we be much better off security-wise, or would the level of malware be just as equally advanced? I'm starting to see how perhaps some of these big corporation's hacked computers are not necessarily backroom computers running Windows 98 or the like. What will happen to make things more secure, when a full deck of security software and a router just isn't enough?

It has been officially been announced. The next version of Windows will be called Windows Vista. It will be released in 2006. Microsoft hasn't officially said too much about it yet, but I know a few things about it. First, the GUI will be very high-tech. You are going to need a good graphics card to run the next Windows. A major feature will be the new type of icons. The icons will actually show a preview of the entire document, or picture. It will be much more than the Windows XP thumbnails. It will also feature IE7. Not too much is known about IE7, but I heard it will have tabbed browsing. Here is a little more technical information from Microsoft:

What is the physical representation of logic gates on the electronic circuit? Are they simply abstract or do they have a physical existence on the electronic circuit?

I was curious, because I couldn't reason by myself, how come nobody could predict the power of personal computers. Science fiction authors of the 50's and 60's, especially, envisioned computers of the future to be giant monstrosities, but very intelligent. Computers are still non-sentinent and extremely small. How come they didn't accurately predict what computers would become?

Sometimes the cursor changed to strange Sharpes, such as "+", "arrow + a square", "circle with a slash inside." Then the cursor is NOT easy to control and the computer is slower. Someone hacked me or what?