I just tested the latest beta of IE 9 with our application and it beats out all the other browsers. Our web application heavily depends on image display and canvas and the difference is likely due to IE9's rendering integration with DirectX. If you are looking at writing web apps that heavily use Canvas, IE9 is going to be more than relevant.
- Time spent surfing the web for things unrelated to work - Time spent surfing the web for things you think is work related - Time spent trying out new software that is not associated with any kind of formal company effort - Time spent talking to people about non work related items - Number of times you sent the executives call to voice mail
and while it does seem to have some better features than my iPhone, none of them were exciting enough for me to even consider looking at it. I love my iPhone and don't see any reason to replace it with anything else until another revolution occurs.
Actually, there is something worse than managers who want to deploy clearcase - it is developers that hold onto a clearcase deployment when managers want to move to perforce or SVN to improve productivity. *cry*
There is no 64 bit agenda - 64 bit has been here for quite a while and offers real benefits to even the regular consumer. The cost of supporting 32 bit and 64 bit simultaneously is quite high for both software and hardware companies. This cost results in either higher priced products or worse - lower quality products to preserve the profit margin. While few people actually need 3 gigs of ram, the disk subsystem is still the slowest part of the system and using ram for cache helps a lot (at least until SSDs replace spinning disks). Windows 7 is turning out to be a good OS that everyone will standardize on (home PCs, enterprise PCs, workstations and servers). It is really unfortunate that Microsoft doesn't demonstrate more leadership here and cut 32 bit completely. While Microsoft has been making much better technical decisions recently, the quality of their business decisions has really dropped and they will continue to struggle with finding growth (and this is independent of the economic issues we face)
My first reaction to this is wondering why anyone would decide to write their own date/time code. I would expect there to be several good options for open source date/time code that is mature and proven to work right.
Nobody can answer your question if it is worth it to change operating systems because we don't understand your business. All changes have an associated cost and that must be measured in terms of value to the business. You claim to have a technical reason for changing CPUs - but is that backed by a justification for the business? I will assume so, but part of our responsibility as a professional is to always keep the business's best interest in mind.
Your second question about what you will gain or lose is definitely appropriate because that gives you the information you need to make the business decision. While everyone likes to use the latest and greatest, doing so does not always make the most business sense. Good luck!
Once you get going, you can hire other programmers that can get frustrated about you constantly changing directions as you try to avoid laying off more of your people
I accidently bought the prior version (NV5) because I thought it would was an HD tuner. This is not the case, it only tunes NTSC signals which means it is simply upconverting the low res standard definition signal to whatever the output resolution is. I really can't think of any reason to buy this thing.
I wonder if it makes any sense to switch to using FPGA's for computationally intensive processes rather than using a general purpose CPU. If this was the case, you could use a lower speed/power CPU which would be a big win for portable devices. If a FPGA was standard in all PC machines, the price would continue to drop and they would get faster/bigger as more research dollars went into them.
Cool, but how fast is it?
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Definitely looks cool, but I couldn't find any information about how long it takes to process each HDTV frame. I doubt it is nothing near real time!
I just ordered several dual P4-XEON, 1 Gig RAM, 80 Gig HD workstations for $1800 a piece from Dell. Besides the amazing price, I am very interested to see how a single processor HT compares to two non HT processors. I understand that HT can easily be controlled by a bios switch so it shouldn't be that hard. I full expect the two non HT processors to win, but the question is by how much? Which will perform better for memory bound tasks? Which will perform better for context switches? Which will perform better for high levels of lock contention? How will the interactivity of the user interface compare? Interesting questions, yet I haven't seen any good data on this yet. My hope is that a single HT processor will provide 80% of the benefit a dual processor gives me today - that would be a major win for everyone!
I actually have the SRX77. I have noticed the hard disk park its heads occasionally, have you heard if Sony is replacing the drives for systems in warranty?
If this interests you, you should take a look at the Sony VAIO SRX Series. Here are the specs for the latest model: P3-850 256 Meg RAM (exp to 384) 30 Gig HD V.90 Modem, 802.11b, 10/100 all built in Firewire, USB, Sony Memory Stick, PCMCIA slot 4 Hour battery life (8 with double life battery)
I have one and absolutely love it. It is the same size as my paper notebook and just slightly heavier (2.7 lbs).
The Matrox cards have always been considered the top of the line as far as image quality goes. Sure their 3D performance lags behind nVidia and ATI, but the images are very crisp and sharp - something very important to those who do non gaming work at high resolutions such as programmers and graphic artists. The 10 bit DAC is very important - it allows you to calibrate the gamma of your display without losing colors. After gamma calibration, an 8 bit DAC will not allow you to use all 8 bits for displaying colors. This means you will not be able to see all 16 million colors for a 24 bit image. The matrox's 10 bit DAC doesn't have this limitation and will always display all 16 million colors even with gamma correction.
I own a Jornada 568 and prefer its form factor to that of the iPaq. The iPaq requires a very thick sleeve to support add in cards compared to the Jornada which does not. My coworker's iPaq is quite a bit bulkier with a sleeve and wireles adapter compared to my Jornada with a wireless adapter. I haven't used an iPaq so maybe I am missing something, but from a form factor view, this doesn't seem like the best decision.
I remember trying out OS/2 when it first came out. My machine had the minimum required RAM (I think it was 12 megs?) and although I could get it to boot up, it was constantly swapping and completely unuseable. I accidently started up 8-10 applications and then logged out hoping it would reset itself. Unfortunatley it rememberd the applications I had open and tried to reopen them at login. I gave up at that point and uninstalled it.
CSI needs some kind of background plot, something like a super smart serial killer who they can never catch. They have recently started to develop the relationships between the characters, but I don't think this is enough to sustain the show long term.
The price of RAM is still 30x more than hard disk space, but if Moore's law continues, it will eventually be cheaper. I am eagerly looking forward to this day since I believe it result in some incredible changes in OS and Application design. Those of that have been around a while will remember the day when hard disks finally became affordable. Improved access speeds and larger storage size allowed all sorts of new applications to appear. Consider how pervasive SQL databases are, yet we would not have all the applications associated with them without affordable hard disk technology. I think the transition from hard disk based systems to memory based systems will create many opportunities in the high tech world.
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I just tested the latest beta of IE 9 with our application and it beats out all the other browsers. Our web application heavily depends on image display and canvas and the difference is likely due to IE9's rendering integration with DirectX. If you are looking at writing web apps that heavily use Canvas, IE9 is going to be more than relevant.
- Time spent surfing the web for things unrelated to work
- Time spent surfing the web for things you think is work related
- Time spent trying out new software that is not associated with any kind of formal company effort
- Time spent talking to people about non work related items
- Number of times you sent the executives call to voice mail
and while it does seem to have some better features than my iPhone, none of them were exciting enough for me to even consider looking at it. I love my iPhone and don't see any reason to replace it with anything else until another revolution occurs.
Reactos may actually catch up providing a suitable replacement
Actually, there is something worse than managers who want to deploy clearcase - it is developers that hold onto a clearcase deployment when managers want to move to perforce or SVN to improve productivity. *cry*
There is no 64 bit agenda - 64 bit has been here for quite a while and offers real benefits to even the regular consumer. The cost of supporting 32 bit and 64 bit simultaneously is quite high for both software and hardware companies. This cost results in either higher priced products or worse - lower quality products to preserve the profit margin. While few people actually need 3 gigs of ram, the disk subsystem is still the slowest part of the system and using ram for cache helps a lot (at least until SSDs replace spinning disks). Windows 7 is turning out to be a good OS that everyone will standardize on (home PCs, enterprise PCs, workstations and servers). It is really unfortunate that Microsoft doesn't demonstrate more leadership here and cut 32 bit completely. While Microsoft has been making much better technical decisions recently, the quality of their business decisions has really dropped and they will continue to struggle with finding growth (and this is independent of the economic issues we face)
My first reaction to this is wondering why anyone would decide to write their own date/time code. I would expect there to be several good options for open source date/time code that is mature and proven to work right.
Nobody can answer your question if it is worth it to change operating systems because we don't understand your business. All changes have an associated cost and that must be measured in terms of value to the business. You claim to have a technical reason for changing CPUs - but is that backed by a justification for the business? I will assume so, but part of our responsibility as a professional is to always keep the business's best interest in mind.
Your second question about what you will gain or lose is definitely appropriate because that gives you the information you need to make the business decision. While everyone likes to use the latest and greatest, doing so does not always make the most business sense. Good luck!
Once you get going, you can hire other programmers that can get frustrated about you constantly changing directions as you try to avoid laying off more of your people
I accidently bought the prior version (NV5) because I thought it would was an HD tuner. This is not the case, it only tunes NTSC signals which means it is simply upconverting the low res standard definition signal to whatever the output resolution is. I really can't think of any reason to buy this thing.
I wonder if it makes any sense to switch to using FPGA's for computationally intensive processes rather than using a general purpose CPU. If this was the case, you could use a lower speed/power CPU which would be a big win for portable devices. If a FPGA was standard in all PC machines, the price would continue to drop and they would get faster/bigger as more research dollars went into them.
Definitely looks cool, but I couldn't find any information about how long it takes to process each HDTV frame. I doubt it is nothing near real time!
I just ordered several dual P4-XEON, 1 Gig RAM, 80 Gig HD workstations for $1800 a piece from Dell. Besides the amazing price, I am very interested to see how a single processor HT compares to two non HT processors. I understand that HT can easily be controlled by a bios switch so it shouldn't be that hard. I full expect the two non HT processors to win, but the question is by how much? Which will perform better for memory bound tasks? Which will perform better for context switches? Which will perform better for high levels of lock contention? How will the interactivity of the user interface compare? Interesting questions, yet I haven't seen any good data on this yet. My hope is that a single HT processor will provide 80% of the benefit a dual processor gives me today - that would be a major win for everyone!
Any idea what the ping time is for this connection?
I actually have the SRX77. I have noticed the hard disk park its heads occasionally, have you heard if Sony is replacing the drives for systems in warranty?
If this interests you, you should take a look at the Sony VAIO SRX Series. Here are the specs for the latest model:
P3-850
256 Meg RAM (exp to 384)
30 Gig HD
V.90 Modem, 802.11b, 10/100 all built in
Firewire, USB, Sony Memory Stick, PCMCIA slot
4 Hour battery life (8 with double life battery)
I have one and absolutely love it. It is the same size as my paper notebook and just slightly heavier (2.7 lbs).
The Matrox cards have always been considered the top of the line as far as image quality goes. Sure their 3D performance lags behind nVidia and ATI, but the images are very crisp and sharp - something very important to those who do non gaming work at high resolutions such as programmers and graphic artists. The 10 bit DAC is very important - it allows you to calibrate the gamma of your display without losing colors. After gamma calibration, an 8 bit DAC will not allow you to use all 8 bits for displaying colors. This means you will not be able to see all 16 million colors for a 24 bit image. The matrox's 10 bit DAC doesn't have this limitation and will always display all 16 million colors even with gamma correction.
I own a Jornada 568 and prefer its form factor to that of the iPaq. The iPaq requires a very thick sleeve to support add in cards compared to the Jornada which does not. My coworker's iPaq is quite a bit bulkier with a sleeve and wireles adapter compared to my Jornada with a wireless adapter. I haven't used an iPaq so maybe I am missing something, but from a form factor view, this doesn't seem like the best decision.
Uhh, no thanks..
I remember trying out OS/2 when it first came out. My machine had the minimum required RAM (I think it was 12 megs?) and although I could get it to boot up, it was constantly swapping and completely unuseable. I accidently started up 8-10 applications and then logged out hoping it would reset itself. Unfortunatley it rememberd the applications I had open and tried to reopen them at login. I gave up at that point and uninstalled it.
CSI needs some kind of background plot, something like a super smart serial killer who they can never catch. They have recently started to develop the relationships between the characters, but I don't think this is enough to sustain the show long term.
Chris
The price of RAM is still 30x more than hard disk space, but if Moore's law continues, it will eventually be cheaper. I am eagerly looking forward to this day since I believe it result in some incredible changes in OS and Application design. Those of that have been around a while will remember the day when hard disks finally became affordable. Improved access speeds and larger storage size allowed all sorts of new applications to appear. Consider how pervasive SQL databases are, yet we would not have all the applications associated with them without affordable hard disk technology. I think the transition from hard disk based systems to memory based systems will create many opportunities in the high tech world.
Chris Hafey
"One caveat worth mentioning now is that the current version of VectorC is plain C only. 2.0 with full C++ compatibility is due early next year."
Full C++ compatibility? I think that would be a first!
Or perhaps Austin Powers..
What about access time? Details, details!
Chris