If you had looked at all, you would see there is already a version with a HDMI port and WiFi + BlueTooth, the GuruPlug.
Also you can use a usb-hub, usb-vga adaptor, usb keyboard + mouse, with the standard SheevaPlug and you have a low power desktop. There are videos of exactly this on YouTube. It's a low power ARM computer that you can install Linux on (or Plan9/BSD/what ever, if you are insane). How you use it is up to you. Pretty much all the software in the x86 repository is in the ARM repository. OpenWRT/dd-wrt are great, but they aren't Debian/Ubuntu. I also have a router I have OpenWRT on, and while it's great, it can't be put to work like the SheevaPlug can. I've even heard of people using Tvheadend on the SheevaPlug to turn it into headless PVR. The SheevaPlug is acturally more powerful then the 12 year old craptop we use as almost a thin client for the desktop.
At very least partly. Which is why it wasn't done.;-)
But trying to implement something is a great way of truly understanding why things are done as they are. Not good business sense though!
Yes, but some of them move up to be more senior and do the complex parts working normal hours. Games does pay less, no denying that, but you get to work on a wide range of things, in a informal manner often self directed. There is to the metal programming, tools programming, database programming, scripting, you name it. Game companies tend to have a "not invented here" syndrome, and that means the range of internal tools is wide. The place I work at was at one point thinking of writing there own database system instead of using MySQL or PostgreSQL, which of course is madness, but would have been very educational for all involved. If you only motivation is money, yes games is not the best place, but if you motivation is more then that (studies show it often is), games is a great place to work. I don't care at all about the games themselves, but I keep finding interesting things to work on that helps those that do. I keep looking at leaving games for more money, or recruitment finds me, but I just never find anywhere that looks as interesting.
I'm a drop out. 10 years ago I dropped out of a VR design course to do programming for a living. I have always had mixed feelings that I should have done a CS degree. I say mixed because I have met such varied results. I have met some that have been taught exactly what I wanted to know and had to find for myself, but I have also met hordes that I don't feel know what they should. They can't program anything but C#/Java and I wouldn't trust them to with what they know about compilers, registers, stack and heap, operating systems, etc. Which is basically, NOTHING. Seams to depend what Uni. The trouble seams to be the pressure is to get bums on seats, and the way of doing that is to dumb down. Which seams to be a general trend. But as I said, I'm not unbiased, and could be deluding myself to make myself feel better.;-)
This is exactly my thinking for a while. Its brand that is important. We are a bit weary of cheap knock offs, we don't think of them as quality items. We trust in brands, because they have a reputation to protect. As everything is becoming free, brand becomes increasingly important. What is a Linux distribution if it is not a brand? I'm really chuffed with this video because to me it validates my musings with real world examples.:-)
If this a storage system to be used as a filesystem, why does it need a API? Write a OS filesystem driver then everything can use it. Easy enough to do in userspace with FUSE on Linux/BSD/OSX and Dokan on Windows. Everything is a filesystem, and this really seams to be a filesystem, so make it a filesystem. But maybe I'm missing something here.....
Far enough about the car, but it's interesting idea of a application of open hardware application.
I see open source as synonymous for copy anything you want, at will, it's kind of the point. I see the GPL as a lock to keep it so. I can't do anything I want with it, like take the code, close it and give no credit to anyone else, but I can and do copy copy copy.
I see IP as more of a hindrance than a help. As indeed did billy boy himself while MS was the underdogs to IBM.....
To my knowledge it's not been done with a physical car, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has. This has happened countless times with software. There is now also open hardware. In fact...... quick google......oh look http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OScar_(open_source_car)
My number one priory has been keeping the Tories out, so I normally vote Labour, but now I won't. It will probably be LibDem now, or Green.
The UK's darknet communities will be getting a whole lot bigger now. Forcing things underground is not a good thing. If it's cheap enough and the service is good people will pay! If you know the money is going to those doing the work, not middlemen, people will pay.
I'm angry about this. Labour are no longer a left party. I want the UK to move towards a European/German style model, not American.
Mmmmm XBMC on ARM...... No fans and almost no power. But might have to wait for something with a little more kick then the beagleboard though.... Currently use XBMC on the desktop's TV out as the desktop is in the living room anyway.
So how can you compete with native MS products when your stuck with CLR? It's not a level playing field. Firefox done in CLR vs IE native? A native process can crash itself, but it shouldn't be able to take the OS with it because it has it's own address space. This overhead is small and old, and really isn't a problem, and is nothing compared with CLR/Java. There are many smart phones that's OS is just a port of a standard OS, they manage just fine. This brings me back to my point that a company can't make a closed platform and closed software for that platform, one must be open for fair competition. In this case however, there is viable macro competition. So the result is Windows phone suck and no one will buy them.
Do so many in the US really think their system is great?
I really don't get it. 32 million left uncovered to die because they are sick or poor? You judge a society by how it treats it's sick and poor! The very people who are against covering these people seem to be the loudest christians!? How christian is it to leave the sick and poor to die!? Making it even more confusing, the argument is "Why should we pay for them?". I just can't get my head round the morality of it. It's so alien. I swear it's because it's the US, that so many in the US think it's best. Far too much chanting "USA! USA! USA!" to stop and critically look. From the outside, the US looks brutal and uncaring. When I'm sick, I get tucked up in bed by nanny state, and she looks after me until I'm a well tax payer again. If a crime is committed against me, I tell nanny state and she does her best to catch the criminal. When my house is on fire nanny state puts it out for me. If I loose my job, nanny state feeds and shelters me. All she asks from me is to pay taxes and obey laws that hold society together. Yes, she is fat and inefficient, but she covers all and does the job with a heart in the right place, answerable to the people directly. The market solutions may be more efficient, but they never cover all, and their heart is replaced by creed. Give me nanny state!
What is really funny is you could cut and paste arguments made before the UK got the NHS and use them in today's US debate. This bill doesn't give the US a NHS, but it appears to be a step in the right direction. Hopefully a step towards a more caring, less brutal US.
Laying aside their task actually is parallelizable, are they suggesting battery software farming is a solution? I don't want to work like that! No, I think freerange organic software farming is best.;-)
BBC BASIC was my first language. On the Acorn, many things where BBC BASIC, with ARM assembler sprinkled in at bottle necks. Me and a few friends taught ourselves (we shared things we found, and played each other's games). I remember not knowing about procedures/functions. For a few years I wrote everything with GOTOs. Finding out about procs was a revelation I still remember. I look back at the code from my childhood with a certain pride, despite the horror of it. All the variables had shortened names because it made things run faster. Everything was fixed point and logical shifts instead of devides. It is tangled and nasty, but it runs, and being the games is done in BBC BASIC, fast. (SWI for sprite rendering helped!) I do wish someone had got me started on C earlier, didn't set up RiscOS to compile C until I was 19, but there was no one until I was able to do it myself. Setting up gcc on RiscOS had a bit of reputation for being hard, older friends had failed. But once I was up and running, I wrote a C software 3D engine demo thingy, dropped out of uni (stupid multimedia course), moved myself to Windows, C++ and OpenGL, got a job speeding up a startup's 3D engine (which was like a lesson on how not to do 3D), and never looked back. I owe my working life to having BBC BASIC as a child. As a kid in the 80s/90s, you couldn't ask for a better start than BBC BASIC on the Acorn, you could knock together fast enough games to be worth doing. The modern day equivalent I guess would be python and pyGame.
Now when I say shit code, I don't just mean code that doesn't do the job, I also mean code that is just ugly. We have all written shit code, even if we didn't know so at the time. We either didn't know something that would have made all the difference, or just weren't on the ball that day. I don't believe anyone who says they have never written shitty code. Sometimes, there just isn't a nice way, say when doing with a shit API. Abstract away the shit API, sure, but then you have much more code, and is that better? I HATE shit APIs because of this knock on effect. And I'm sure many of us have written "sulk code" when we have perceived ourselves in this no win situation. Or there is always the ball of quick fixes and prototype. If you won't fess up to ever having written shit code, I wouldn't want to work with you, because it makes it much harder to move on and get to the good code.
I hate "up to" claims. Advertizing standards should ban "up to" claims. You should only be able advertise on minimum and average. That means the competition becomes about the real quality of service, not just what is just possible if the moon is in the right direction and no one else is using the service!
It's a off the shelf quote for what is basically a old debate. Yes there is more to it then that, but that is a big part of it. I don't actually agree with leaving behind those who didn't understand until too late, especially in this instance because it drags us all down. Fair point.
Great, kick the ISPs with some heavy competition.
But I'm getting a little scared of Google.....To many fingers in to many pies. We are meant to use a Google Thin Client, to access Google Services, over Google Fibre....
They make their money by gathering data about us from our data. Shouldn't that make us question them owning so much of our data? They could have us by the short and curlies. Maybe "don't be evil" makes that safe for now, but who knows what the future holds? Even if Google can for ever be trusted, and don't give the data to those who can't be trusted, it's them who decide who to trust! We can not trust the markets to resolve this. Consumers will just blindly sleep walk into this if it makes for a easy life now. Which they might with Windows being so bad for malware, virus etc etc (because of the nature of Windows and it's users). "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin - 1775
Wouldn't a thin client computing world, sorry cloud computing world, require a fast network like this? Then we wouldn't need to store or compute anything locally, and all that data can be used to target adds to us...
I can see some form of structure is useful, but people seem to always get carried away with it, which sets of a cascade of bad things.
Things take longer -> enthusiasm drops away -> it becomes just a job -> people lose interest in talking and reading about the technology -> their learning slows or even stops.
I believe process and structures should be applied very very carefully, and more often than not, sparingly. I believe chaos, common sense and "yeh that works for us" can combine to come up with simple processes and structures that work best. I don't doubt things can be learnt from other processes, but it is a slippery slope to walk on.
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If you had looked at all, you would see there is already a version with a HDMI port and WiFi + BlueTooth, the GuruPlug. Also you can use a usb-hub, usb-vga adaptor, usb keyboard + mouse, with the standard SheevaPlug and you have a low power desktop. There are videos of exactly this on YouTube. It's a low power ARM computer that you can install Linux on (or Plan9/BSD/what ever, if you are insane). How you use it is up to you. Pretty much all the software in the x86 repository is in the ARM repository. OpenWRT/dd-wrt are great, but they aren't Debian/Ubuntu. I also have a router I have OpenWRT on, and while it's great, it can't be put to work like the SheevaPlug can. I've even heard of people using Tvheadend on the SheevaPlug to turn it into headless PVR. The SheevaPlug is acturally more powerful then the 12 year old craptop we use as almost a thin client for the desktop.
At very least partly. Which is why it wasn't done. ;-)
But trying to implement something is a great way of truly understanding why things are done as they are. Not good business sense though!
Yes, but some of them move up to be more senior and do the complex parts working normal hours. Games does pay less, no denying that, but you get to work on a wide range of things, in a informal manner often self directed. There is to the metal programming, tools programming, database programming, scripting, you name it. Game companies tend to have a "not invented here" syndrome, and that means the range of internal tools is wide. The place I work at was at one point thinking of writing there own database system instead of using MySQL or PostgreSQL, which of course is madness, but would have been very educational for all involved. If you only motivation is money, yes games is not the best place, but if you motivation is more then that (studies show it often is), games is a great place to work. I don't care at all about the games themselves, but I keep finding interesting things to work on that helps those that do. I keep looking at leaving games for more money, or recruitment finds me, but I just never find anywhere that looks as interesting.
I'm a drop out. 10 years ago I dropped out of a VR design course to do programming for a living. I have always had mixed feelings that I should have done a CS degree. I say mixed because I have met such varied results. I have met some that have been taught exactly what I wanted to know and had to find for myself, but I have also met hordes that I don't feel know what they should. They can't program anything but C#/Java and I wouldn't trust them to with what they know about compilers, registers, stack and heap, operating systems, etc. Which is basically, NOTHING. Seams to depend what Uni. The trouble seams to be the pressure is to get bums on seats, and the way of doing that is to dumb down. Which seams to be a general trend. But as I said, I'm not unbiased, and could be deluding myself to make myself feel better. ;-)
This could be interesting. Intel might have to change plans for Larrabee again.
This is exactly my thinking for a while. Its brand that is important. We are a bit weary of cheap knock offs, we don't think of them as quality items. We trust in brands, because they have a reputation to protect. As everything is becoming free, brand becomes increasingly important. What is a Linux distribution if it is not a brand? I'm really chuffed with this video because to me it validates my musings with real world examples. :-)
Looks like there is already at least one implementation : http://code.google.com/p/s3fs/wiki/FuseOverAmazon
If this a storage system to be used as a filesystem, why does it need a API? Write a OS filesystem driver then everything can use it. Easy enough to do in userspace with FUSE on Linux/BSD/OSX and Dokan on Windows. Everything is a filesystem, and this really seams to be a filesystem, so make it a filesystem. But maybe I'm missing something here.....
Far enough about the car, but it's interesting idea of a application of open hardware application.
I see open source as synonymous for copy anything you want, at will, it's kind of the point. I see the GPL as a lock to keep it so. I can't do anything I want with it, like take the code, close it and give no credit to anyone else, but I can and do copy copy copy.
I see IP as more of a hindrance than a help. As indeed did billy boy himself while MS was the underdogs to IBM.....
To my knowledge it's not been done with a physical car, but I wouldn't be surprised if it has. This has happened countless times with software. There is now also open hardware. In fact ...... quick google ......oh look
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OScar_(open_source_car)
You mean like the SheevaPlug? You can buy one now as a home server, it does me just fine. :-)
Isn't any repository a whitelist?
My number one priory has been keeping the Tories out, so I normally vote Labour, but now I won't. It will probably be LibDem now, or Green.
The UK's darknet communities will be getting a whole lot bigger now. Forcing things underground is not a good thing. If it's cheap enough and the service is good people will pay! If you know the money is going to those doing the work, not middlemen, people will pay.
I'm angry about this. Labour are no longer a left party. I want the UK to move towards a European/German style model, not American.
Mmmmm XBMC on ARM...... No fans and almost no power. But might have to wait for something with a little more kick then the beagleboard though.... Currently use XBMC on the desktop's TV out as the desktop is in the living room anyway.
So how can you compete with native MS products when your stuck with CLR? It's not a level playing field. Firefox done in CLR vs IE native? A native process can crash itself, but it shouldn't be able to take the OS with it because it has it's own address space. This overhead is small and old, and really isn't a problem, and is nothing compared with CLR/Java. There are many smart phones that's OS is just a port of a standard OS, they manage just fine. This brings me back to my point that a company can't make a closed platform and closed software for that platform, one must be open for fair competition. In this case however, there is viable macro competition. So the result is Windows phone suck and no one will buy them.
Do so many in the US really think their system is great?
I really don't get it. 32 million left uncovered to die because they are sick or poor? You judge a society by how it treats it's sick and poor! The very people who are against covering these people seem to be the loudest christians!? How christian is it to leave the sick and poor to die!? Making it even more confusing, the argument is "Why should we pay for them?". I just can't get my head round the morality of it. It's so alien. I swear it's because it's the US, that so many in the US think it's best. Far too much chanting "USA! USA! USA!" to stop and critically look. From the outside, the US looks brutal and uncaring. When I'm sick, I get tucked up in bed by nanny state, and she looks after me until I'm a well tax payer again. If a crime is committed against me, I tell nanny state and she does her best to catch the criminal. When my house is on fire nanny state puts it out for me. If I loose my job, nanny state feeds and shelters me. All she asks from me is to pay taxes and obey laws that hold society together. Yes, she is fat and inefficient, but she covers all and does the job with a heart in the right place, answerable to the people directly. The market solutions may be more efficient, but they never cover all, and their heart is replaced by creed. Give me nanny state!
What is really funny is you could cut and paste arguments made before the UK got the NHS and use them in today's US debate. This bill doesn't give the US a NHS, but it appears to be a step in the right direction. Hopefully a step towards a more caring, less brutal US.
SheevaPlug isn't vaporware. N900, iPhone or any smart phone uses ARM, aren't vaporware.
Laying aside their task actually is parallelizable, are they suggesting battery software farming is a solution? I don't want to work like that! No, I think freerange organic software farming is best. ;-)
BBC BASIC was my first language. On the Acorn, many things where BBC BASIC, with ARM assembler sprinkled in at bottle necks. Me and a few friends taught ourselves (we shared things we found, and played each other's games). I remember not knowing about procedures/functions. For a few years I wrote everything with GOTOs. Finding out about procs was a revelation I still remember. I look back at the code from my childhood with a certain pride, despite the horror of it. All the variables had shortened names because it made things run faster. Everything was fixed point and logical shifts instead of devides. It is tangled and nasty, but it runs, and being the games is done in BBC BASIC, fast. (SWI for sprite rendering helped!) I do wish someone had got me started on C earlier, didn't set up RiscOS to compile C until I was 19, but there was no one until I was able to do it myself. Setting up gcc on RiscOS had a bit of reputation for being hard, older friends had failed. But once I was up and running, I wrote a C software 3D engine demo thingy, dropped out of uni (stupid multimedia course), moved myself to Windows, C++ and OpenGL, got a job speeding up a startup's 3D engine (which was like a lesson on how not to do 3D), and never looked back. I owe my working life to having BBC BASIC as a child. As a kid in the 80s/90s, you couldn't ask for a better start than BBC BASIC on the Acorn, you could knock together fast enough games to be worth doing. The modern day equivalent I guess would be python and pyGame.
Now when I say shit code, I don't just mean code that doesn't do the job, I also mean code that is just ugly. We have all written shit code, even if we didn't know so at the time. We either didn't know something that would have made all the difference, or just weren't on the ball that day. I don't believe anyone who says they have never written shitty code. Sometimes, there just isn't a nice way, say when doing with a shit API. Abstract away the shit API, sure, but then you have much more code, and is that better? I HATE shit APIs because of this knock on effect. And I'm sure many of us have written "sulk code" when we have perceived ourselves in this no win situation. Or there is always the ball of quick fixes and prototype. If you won't fess up to ever having written shit code, I wouldn't want to work with you, because it makes it much harder to move on and get to the good code.
I hate "up to" claims. Advertizing standards should ban "up to" claims. You should only be able advertise on minimum and average. That means the competition becomes about the real quality of service, not just what is just possible if the moon is in the right direction and no one else is using the service!
It's a off the shelf quote for what is basically a old debate. Yes there is more to it then that, but that is a big part of it. I don't actually agree with leaving behind those who didn't understand until too late, especially in this instance because it drags us all down. Fair point.
Great, kick the ISPs with some heavy competition.
But I'm getting a little scared of Google.....To many fingers in to many pies. We are meant to use a Google Thin Client, to access Google Services, over Google Fibre....
They make their money by gathering data about us from our data. Shouldn't that make us question them owning so much of our data? They could have us by the short and curlies. Maybe "don't be evil" makes that safe for now, but who knows what the future holds? Even if Google can for ever be trusted, and don't give the data to those who can't be trusted, it's them who decide who to trust! We can not trust the markets to resolve this. Consumers will just blindly sleep walk into this if it makes for a easy life now. Which they might with Windows being so bad for malware, virus etc etc (because of the nature of Windows and it's users). "They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin - 1775
Wouldn't a thin client computing world, sorry cloud computing world, require a fast network like this? Then we wouldn't need to store or compute anything locally, and all that data can be used to target adds to us...
I can see some form of structure is useful, but people seem to always get carried away with it, which sets of a cascade of bad things.
Things take longer -> enthusiasm drops away -> it becomes just a job -> people lose interest in talking and reading about the technology -> their learning slows or even stops.
I believe process and structures should be applied very very carefully, and more often than not, sparingly. I believe chaos, common sense and "yeh that works for us" can combine to come up with simple processes and structures that work best. I don't doubt things can be learnt from other processes, but it is a slippery slope to walk on.