Can't be.Net or Java (shake a tree to find your dev). C/Perl CGI, Perl, Python, PHP, too common to find coders for. Ruby. Hah. Too popular still.
Nobody's considered the real dead end technology of late: ColdFusion. Yes, sites still run it. No, its not quite dead yet. Yes, Adobe provides and has provided plenty of hype to fool managers into deploying things to it.
1) Its FAst Search and Transfer 2) Microsoft paid for and bought an Enterprise search engine, not an internet search engine. As has already been pointed out, their internet search engine was bought by Overture. Similar to how Ultraseek's internet engine was bought by Yahoo, and their enterprise search was bought by Verity (now Autonomy).
FAST actually has a fairly strong presence in the enterprise search market, and beat out the Google appliance in terms of features and management when I last looked at it a couple of years ago.
But John Madden isn't capable of realistic dialogue! They'll have to get entirely new sports 'personalities' with phrases that extend beyond 'Boom!', and 'That'll Hurt!'.
It becomes very difficult to rate games in the same way as movies. A four star movie from 10 or 20 years ago is typically still a very good movie. A game that would have rated a 85% or a 90% 10 or 20 years ago would not hold up to the same scrutiny today.
Love it or hate it, video games exist in a moving target of expectations, and until we see a general leveling off in terms of artistic and technical capabilities, I don't think you'll see the reviewing camps move to a more general rating system.
Do you remember what caused the video game crash in the 80's? It was the hordes of small programming teams creating a flood of 'me too' clones of concepts that were already out there. Groundbreaking ideas just don't come along that often, no matter how you look. Each generation has had a few if you look, though. Last generation, it was Guitar Hero, and Katamari, and Okami. This generation, it's Portal, and Wii Sports so far.
The small game programming team isn't dead. Look at Narbacular Drop, look at Everyday Shooter, look at Kingdom of Loathing, look at about 99% of the flash games in existence. There's still plenty of room for innovation, but its going the same way as 'independent' film making, music, and writing.
Sure, you want cutting edge production values, buy the latest big budget title for your PlayBox360. You want innovation? Start looking around at the independent games scene. You might see something you like.
It hits the other virtual worlds -- World of Warcraft? Quake? Maybe it'll even stomp through Google Earth. Is it just me that feels like this would generally be a bad idea visually? Ignoring the technological problems of trying to scale a universal 3d figure and textures to suit a particular rendering engine, it just seems like a bad choice artistically. The cute and cartoony Miis would be a poor fit in Second Life, and the 'realistic' figures in Second Life or the Sims would look pretty silly next to the thick macho characters in Gears of War.
A large part of 3-D worlds is the consistency of the artistic presentation, be that Wii sports, World of Warcraft, or Bioshock. To give that up also gives up a large part of what makes these worlds compelling to us.
I don't think anyone's suggesting that the moon is the first step. I would expect that the 20-30 years of funding and research would absolutely include proving the concept on Earth first. Still, the moon becomes a logical stepping stone to interplanetary colonization and terraforming.
To sum: 1) Small closed habitat on earth 2) Test habitat on Moon 3) ??? 4) Profit!
Where ??? becomes: a) Colonize Mars b) Open Lunar Real Estate Office c) Mine for He3 d) Perform industrial espionage of the Google lunar offices
You have to learn to walk before you can run. The moon presents a place where we can learn to create a self-sufficient habitat in a real situation. Before we try and establish ourselves on Mars or even interstellar, we need to prove we can live in space by camping in our own backyard, so to speak.
And if we do manage to get He3 fusion as a practical energy source, we can at least mine for that as a resource;-)
It would be, if Sony weren't also brining the new model out in both black and white colors.
Still, you can't win either way. When Apple has done this in the past with iMacs/iPods, people complain about the price premium associated with what is essentially, an aesthetic decision.
For Hybrid Hard Drives to live up to promises.
After a bit more digging - There is still a lack of results from this drive, although boot time and power savings are starting to show up. RAM caches have been around for years, and getting even 1 GB of flash memory is getting down to pretty reasonable levels. Why is this commanding a 30% premium and delivering unspectacular benefits? Unless there's a solid standard behind addressing for HHD's exists, there's no point in blaming BIOS or Vista for a problem that could also be addressed in on-drive logic. Meh.
However, Corran believes that the Spanish team's procedure needs to be developed further. "They still do part of the assay in a normal plate. Until the whole thing can be done on a CD it doesn't have a great technical advantage."
I think he's missing the initial point here. The point is to reduce the overall cost of being capable of running the test, not in vastly increasing the efficiency of running a massive batch of tests this way. Certainly there's downstream potential for it, but by itself, this provides testing capabilities to a much wider set of labs.
The patent laundering question is certainly valid, but I would think in those cases that there should be some reasonable cause to believe that the downstream company knew the component to be infringing. e.g. If I'm making a product and am simply choosing components based on price and performance, I shouldn't be held liable for patent infringement unless I'm aware of problems with the components I'm purchasing.
At least that way there would be *some* onus on the side of the prosecution to prove wrongful intent on the part of the downstream products.
This is classic bait and switch tactics...
Advertise one price, and then hit the customers with another. Their only real justification is that 'everyone else is doing it' and that not doing so would put them out of business. Its about time something like this came along.
Actually, it turned out that 3D rendering with Cell turned out to be pretty mediocre. One of the big reasons that Sony turned to Nvidia for the graphics processor for the PS3 was because Sony wasn't able to figure out a way to make the cell really fly in terms of graphics, when compared to current chipsets from Nvidia and ATI/AMD.
Remember that originally, the PS3 was supposed to have 4 cells, and a basic rasterizer. It was actually fairly late that Sony decided to turn to one of the big two to generate the graphics processor for the PS3.
That being said, having a farm of cell-based machines could certainly be utilized as a very effective render-farm, especially for raytraced applications. I will say I'm not sure how it would compare to a similar array of SLI-powered desktops in terms of cost/performance, however.
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Can't be .Net or Java (shake a tree to find your dev). C/Perl CGI, Perl, Python, PHP, too common to find coders for. Ruby. Hah. Too popular still.
Nobody's considered the real dead end technology of late: ColdFusion. Yes, sites still run it. No, its not quite dead yet. Yes, Adobe provides and has provided plenty of hype to fool managers into deploying things to it.
1) Its FAst Search and Transfer
2) Microsoft paid for and bought an Enterprise search engine, not an internet search engine. As has already been pointed out, their internet search engine was bought by Overture. Similar to how Ultraseek's internet engine was bought by Yahoo, and their enterprise search was bought by Verity (now Autonomy).
FAST actually has a fairly strong presence in the enterprise search market, and beat out the Google appliance in terms of features and management when I last looked at it a couple of years ago.
But John Madden isn't capable of realistic dialogue! They'll have to get entirely new sports 'personalities' with phrases that extend beyond 'Boom!', and 'That'll Hurt!'.
It becomes very difficult to rate games in the same way as movies. A four star movie from 10 or 20 years ago is typically still a very good movie. A game that would have rated a 85% or a 90% 10 or 20 years ago would not hold up to the same scrutiny today. Love it or hate it, video games exist in a moving target of expectations, and until we see a general leveling off in terms of artistic and technical capabilities, I don't think you'll see the reviewing camps move to a more general rating system.
No. Just, no.
Do you remember what caused the video game crash in the 80's? It was the hordes of small programming teams creating a flood of 'me too' clones of concepts that were already out there. Groundbreaking ideas just don't come along that often, no matter how you look. Each generation has had a few if you look, though. Last generation, it was Guitar Hero, and Katamari, and Okami. This generation, it's Portal, and Wii Sports so far.
The small game programming team isn't dead. Look at Narbacular Drop, look at Everyday Shooter, look at Kingdom of Loathing, look at about 99% of the flash games in existence. There's still plenty of room for innovation, but its going the same way as 'independent' film making, music, and writing.
Sure, you want cutting edge production values, buy the latest big budget title for your PlayBox360. You want innovation? Start looking around at the independent games scene. You might see something you like.
A large part of 3-D worlds is the consistency of the artistic presentation, be that Wii sports, World of Warcraft, or Bioshock. To give that up also gives up a large part of what makes these worlds compelling to us.
I don't think anyone's suggesting that the moon is the first step. I would expect that the 20-30 years of funding and research would absolutely include proving the concept on Earth first. Still, the moon becomes a logical stepping stone to interplanetary colonization and terraforming.
To sum:
1) Small closed habitat on earth
2) Test habitat on Moon
3) ???
4) Profit!
Where ??? becomes:
a) Colonize Mars
b) Open Lunar Real Estate Office
c) Mine for He3
d) Perform industrial espionage of the Google lunar offices
You have to learn to walk before you can run. The moon presents a place where we can learn to create a self-sufficient habitat in a real situation. Before we try and establish ourselves on Mars or even interstellar, we need to prove we can live in space by camping in our own backyard, so to speak.
;-)
And if we do manage to get He3 fusion as a practical energy source, we can at least mine for that as a resource
It would be, if Sony weren't also brining the new model out in both black and white colors.
Still, you can't win either way. When Apple has done this in the past with iMacs/iPods, people complain about the price premium associated with what is essentially, an aesthetic decision.
For Hybrid Hard Drives to live up to promises. After a bit more digging - There is still a lack of results from this drive, although boot time and power savings are starting to show up. RAM caches have been around for years, and getting even 1 GB of flash memory is getting down to pretty reasonable levels. Why is this commanding a 30% premium and delivering unspectacular benefits? Unless there's a solid standard behind addressing for HHD's exists, there's no point in blaming BIOS or Vista for a problem that could also be addressed in on-drive logic.
Meh.
I think he's missing the initial point here. The point is to reduce the overall cost of being capable of running the test, not in vastly increasing the efficiency of running a massive batch of tests this way. Certainly there's downstream potential for it, but by itself, this provides testing capabilities to a much wider set of labs.
The patent laundering question is certainly valid, but I would think in those cases that there should be some reasonable cause to believe that the downstream company knew the component to be infringing. e.g. If I'm making a product and am simply choosing components based on price and performance, I shouldn't be held liable for patent infringement unless I'm aware of problems with the components I'm purchasing.
At least that way there would be *some* onus on the side of the prosecution to prove wrongful intent on the part of the downstream products.
This is classic bait and switch tactics... Advertise one price, and then hit the customers with another. Their only real justification is that 'everyone else is doing it' and that not doing so would put them out of business. Its about time something like this came along.
Actually, it turned out that 3D rendering with Cell turned out to be pretty mediocre. One of the big reasons that Sony turned to Nvidia for the graphics processor for the PS3 was because Sony wasn't able to figure out a way to make the cell really fly in terms of graphics, when compared to current chipsets from Nvidia and ATI/AMD. Remember that originally, the PS3 was supposed to have 4 cells, and a basic rasterizer. It was actually fairly late that Sony decided to turn to one of the big two to generate the graphics processor for the PS3. That being said, having a farm of cell-based machines could certainly be utilized as a very effective render-farm, especially for raytraced applications. I will say I'm not sure how it would compare to a similar array of SLI-powered desktops in terms of cost/performance, however.