Lets not forget that Google is a complete anomaly, they were in the right place, at the right time, with the right algorithm. Since then, they have had no real competitive pressure, and they make plenty of money on that first idea to fund anything they want. They could easily all sit and work on their own projects 100% of the time, and Google would still be profitable.
Google is not the real world, is nothing like a normal company any way and so should not be compared to other companies in any way.
The day Google faces real competition in the search realm, expect them to become a normal company in every way in a real big hurry.
Forking is one of the greatest things about open source, we need more of it!!!
I mean, if it wasn't for duplicating effort, everything would work already, Microsoft would be dead, and what would people do for hobbies? If it wasnt for reinventing the wheel, what would the young coders do? And don't even mention what would happen if we didn't rewrite all the code in a new language every few years - no jobs!
Forking, reinvention, and recoding - love them!
How many IM clients in Sourceforge the days I wonder, up to 1k yet?
"He came back with a golf ball and said "Here, try this." This guy was in his forties and was wearing the orange and reflective outfit I associate with road construction, so I'm not sure why/how he had a golf ball."
Obviously he has no idea just how FAR you can hit a golf ball on a stretch of new road;)...or for that matter how much those union workers get paid...
will be releasing his project's designs under the GNU GPL
The GPL is not for matter, it's for bits.
This is aweomse, now the farmer can just replicate anything he need, and doesnt have to waste all his time growing me food to eat! Woohoo! Not that I'll be able to pay for food anyway, since noone will have any need to bu yanything I make either.
What happens if everyone that wants an email account already has one? What if they are all "good enough". What if email is just more trouble then it's worth now that many cellphones have unlimited minutes.
Will the free email bubble burst? Do we care anymore? Can google's 1000 PhD's come up with something that hasn't already been done?
Between TV, video games, and the internet, and the media bubble the US lives in most kids don't have any idea what reality is. Just millions of obese couch potatos.
Graduate college and spend the next 43 years in a cubicle writing code that will all be discarded 5 years later when the next fad language comes along and you get to rewrite it.
Opps, but of course by age 35 you will be forced to quit or move into management since you'll be sick of 60 hour weeks.
Look, the bottom line is there is nothing new here, just new sets of buzzwords. You have been able to submit massive computer jobs to IBM or Sun (with their insane $1/cpu-hour), or even most college campuses (the U of Minnesota had such systems) for the last 35 years. MPI/PVM standardized and commoditized the clustering side of things long ago.
Globus is now "web services" and not "GRID". GRID is so last century. It's far more cool now that it's in Java too. Anyone still working on GRIDs should search/replace immediately!!!
And did they drop the name of every single business partner they have in that article, or did only I notice that?;)
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It's profound just how much money these companies will spend to give things away for free.
Lets not forget that Google is a complete anomaly, they were in the right place, at the right time, with the right algorithm. Since then, they have had no real competitive pressure, and they make plenty of money on that first idea to fund anything they want. They could easily all sit and work on their own projects 100% of the time, and Google would still be profitable.
Google is not the real world, is nothing like a normal company any way and so should not be compared to other companies in any way.
The day Google faces real competition in the search realm, expect them to become a normal company in every way in a real big hurry.
No worries, due to IP issues all engineered people will be sterile, just like engineered food. That way, you make more money next spring :)
Forking is one of the greatest things about open source, we need more of it!!!
I mean, if it wasn't for duplicating effort, everything would work already, Microsoft would be dead, and what would people do for hobbies? If it wasnt for reinventing the wheel, what would the young coders do? And don't even mention what would happen if we didn't rewrite all the code in a new language every few years - no jobs!
Forking, reinvention, and recoding - love them!
How many IM clients in Sourceforge the days I wonder, up to 1k yet?
"He came back with a golf ball and said "Here, try this." This guy was in his forties and was wearing the orange and reflective outfit I associate with road construction, so I'm not sure why/how he had a golf ball."
;) ...or for that matter how much those union workers get paid...
Obviously he has no idea just how FAR you can hit a golf ball on a stretch of new road
Good thing this was Apple.
Any other company would have just had him killed already.
will be releasing his project's designs under the GNU GPL
:)
The GPL is not for matter, it's for bits.
This is aweomse, now the farmer can just replicate anything he need, and doesnt have to waste all his time growing me food to eat! Woohoo! Not that I'll be able to pay for food anyway, since noone will have any need to bu yanything I make either.
That said, this is still decades away
Cool, text moving is hard to track tho, and the license means I can't use it for anything, but I can learn from it :)
Then again, I'm a strict minimalist when it comes to the web.
A 1970 GUI in a 2005 web browser, woohooo!
Right, which means not only will users forget passwords, but they will also lose their smardcard (which aren't cheap).
Hurray for increasing IT costs! Good job MS, you always come through in that dept.
What happens if everyone that wants an email account already has one? What if they are all "good enough". What if email is just more trouble then it's worth now that many cellphones have unlimited minutes.
Will the free email bubble burst? Do we care anymore? Can google's 1000 PhD's come up with something that hasn't already been done?
"autovectorization" has been in the works for about 30 years longer then Cell has been on the roadmap.
In thne shorter term, GPU's have been pushing this line of research hard for a few years as well.
Between TV, video games, and the internet, and the media bubble the US lives in most kids don't have any idea what reality is. Just millions of obese couch potatos.
The trend may not pass, but they will.
Of course not, only researchers.
;)
The public isn't big on subsidizing drug companies that are already profitting billions on medicine for their grandparents.
Of course, you knew that
That's old news too though. Zombie'd hosts are rented out for spamming and DDoS every day unfortunately.
When the ship is sinking, the women and children leave first don't they? :)
Blame the outsourcing iceberg. Something about "no longterm prospects".
Graduate college and spend the next 43 years in a cubicle writing code that will all be discarded 5 years later when the next fad language comes along and you get to rewrite it.
Opps, but of course by age 35 you will be forced to quit or move into management since you'll be sick of 60 hour weeks.
Clearly, women are too smart for that.
Well that's nice and all, we already have completely unencombered ways of doing crypto.
Now the bad guys will have to license the patents before they install a key logger, oh no!
Nothing to see here, move along.
I'm sure that's on their list right under "stop posting dupes"
It's about time someome did this so the whole world can see when I'm out of town and my stuff is just sitting around waiting to be stolen ;)
Err....
They don't read the articles, why would you think they would read the comments?
Yet another "around the world" trip that's not around the equator, and just follows the jet stream.
:)
I can grab the north pole and run "around" the world in 2 seconds, and it would be just as valid as their definition - i.e. lame.
But still, cool toys
Most all research is actually done in universities, and "finished" in corporations.
So no loss to the end customer.
I can do that here, at home, on my Viewsonic P815 monitor. It's only 50cm diagnal and I can see pixels and artifacts.
It's sure gonna look like crap at 20m diagnal.
It would be a good rez to download however.
Look, the bottom line is there is nothing new here, just new sets of buzzwords. You have been able to submit massive computer jobs to IBM or Sun (with their insane $1/cpu-hour), or even most college campuses (the U of Minnesota had such systems) for the last 35 years. MPI/PVM standardized and commoditized the clustering side of things long ago.
;)
Globus is now "web services" and not "GRID". GRID is so last century. It's far more cool now that it's in Java too. Anyone still working on GRIDs should search/replace immediately!!!
And did they drop the name of every single business partner they have in that article, or did only I notice that?
One small step for mathematics, one giant leap for global warming :)
:)
Please come join Folding@home, we're actually doing something worth all that waste heat.