... At least the "neural" part. The article did not give a satisfying explanation what good it actually does!
The use of neural network techniques allows us to tolerate considerable amounts of system noise -- indeed, the system requires noise -- and therefore provides a more scalable solution than conventional means.
Huh?? If noise is a problem, then shield the damn thing! I mean, scheduling and switching aren't exactly about dealing with "dirty" sensorical data, so what the fuck is this guy talking about?
A solution? These older bodies need to go, in order for something new to take their place. ICANN is somewhat of a step in the right direction since it is not dominated by the ivory tower academics who prefer to deliberate for long weeks at the taxpayers expense, but rather by corporate interests who, despite their faults, will at least get something done within a time scale where it will be useful.
I'd take ivory tower academics any day over corporal greed that has the one aim to remove any barriers preventing them to milk their customers for all they have and make damn sure that people don't even have the choice not to be a customer.
Unforunately since many Linux hackers do a lot of their coding and kibbitzing on-the-job without informing their employers, it's hard to arrive at final numbers. I'd say a staggering amount of resources gets embezzled from many companies without permission by employees futzing with Open Source while on-the-job, though.
That's idiotic. Doing serious development work is really the last thing you can do between "real" projects when no one's looking.
All in all, it's a rather expensive tab we all pay for 'Free' software.
Double bull. From a global economical standpoint, free software is a big plus because it means that people educate themselves and have the means to do so without having to pay loads of money that many don't have. Free software provides the digital world with an essential infrastructure for everyone and thereby promotes growth and equality.
Now, if you don't abide by the TCP/IP protocols that just about everyone uses on the net, you don't get on the net:-) It's pretty easy to enforce something that has absolutely no reason not to be used.
Sadly, that's only true if not complying means technical incompatibility. There's heaps of RFCs or part of RFCs that are violated whenever it's convenient because doing it doesn't have negative consequences. The best example are forged "From:" adress fields in emails and Usenet postings.
Just to make this clear: the real point of RISC is not the reduction of commands, it's the "normalization" of commands, to make them more pipeline- and parallelization-friendly.
I agree that the "code morphing" is probably inconsequential, but the actual point of the Crusoe that makes it very different from all the other processors is its extremely low power consumption. How this is a great benefit in a mobile, battery-dependant computer should be quite obvious. Which is why I really don't understand the original poster's cry for a desktop system.
WHY IN GOD'S NAME didn't you use your brains and decide not to use mp3s?
Because there is, literally no alternative! Or are you seriously proposing to use uncompressed, 10M-per-minute WAVs? The problem is that the patents which Fraunhofer (and perhaps others) owns are so basic that it's simply not possible to do really good audio compression without infringing on those patents. And that is exactly the reason why software patents are bad...
They make the argument that having 4000 cheap PCs is cheaper than using a RISC setup (e.g Sparc), but I think this is a false economy. For a start, the power and space requirements of such a large number of Intel processors will be huge, compared to that of a big Sun server. And the reliability of Sun machines is far superior to that of the x86 machines - I can forsee them replacing x86 motherboards on a daily basis.
It's possible that the maintenance of the x86 farm is still cheaper than the loans for a big Sun server. If it reallly made a big difference cost-wise, they could have made it a Linux-on-Sparc cluster and still have the same PR effect for Linux.
Unfortunately in my profession, technical writing, it's a lot harder to get work done via modem or xDSL. The actual writing is usually the easiest part of the job; it's meeting with SMEs, programmers, and bosses that requires "face time" in meatspace.
The exact same thing is true for software development, probably any sort of development. And that's why there still are localized "technology hotspots". It may change once the internet is fast enough to allow real video teleconferencing, but until then, "telecommuting" is not really viable.
Reality check: we're talking about people many of whom can't read, let alone use a computer. In India, the voting system relies on icons to represent the parties because too much of the populace couldn't read a text-based ballot!
Again the internet is a great thing, but technophiles need to realize that there are a whole lot of problems that it can't solve and there are other, more important things.
Well, I *did* recently install Debian on a 486SX33, and they have to modify Pine to fit their directory structure, but are not allowed to distribute a modified binary.
Cuz' investors are stupid and lazy, "venture capitalists" doubly so. Buzzwords offer a simple way for them to decide where to invest their money without having to think or (gasp!) do research.
Apparently you've never read "The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy".
You should. ASAP.
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Guys, he's a troll. Don't bother to answer, or, if you do, try to at least be funny about it.
Still, he does an admirable job of separating newbies (and people with zero pattern-recognition ability) from "experienced"/.ers. Now if only anyone needed that...
So you believe that trolling consists of taking a position with which the participants in the forum in question disagree?
Not quite. IMO, trolling consists of deliberately taking such a position with the intent to generate a violent, flame-filled response. And the original poster wasn't just stating an opinion. Using rdicules like "open sores" and "long-haired, bearded wackos like [...] Linux Torebals" is flamebait, pure and simple.
What if the poster had written a message saying: "IE is irrelevant now that Mozilla is coming. After all, IE is in the hands of M$, an evil monopolist corporation run by lawyers and marketing types, which loves to screw its customers over.
Well, he'd probably been followed up by about 5 people complaining how/. was nothing but a playground of brainless Linux zealots. Sound familiar?
The calmer people would probably respond "IE never was relevant, considering that there's no linux version."
He wouldn't be labelled a troll, true, but that is correct, taking into account the nature of/.
Were that line posted on comp.os.windows.advocacy, then it would be a troll, just like the posting a few levels up was a troll on/.
First, I have no idae whatsoever what got you started on this little rant, seeing as in this cae, and most others, if something is "up", it is fully intended to be "grabbed".
Timothy assumes that since M16 is available, it must be ok to download it and do whatever you want with it.
And he's prefectly correct to assume so because of the nature of the Mozilla project, which he and everyone here knows about.
Everyone and their brother assumes that since mp3's are up on Napster, they're available for everyone as a God-given right, and anyone who tries to take that away is a filthy communist, etc. If somebody runs a w4r3z site, it's completely legit to download software from it (it was posted, right, so it must be ok!),
That's idiotic. No-one in their right mind, and hardly anyone here on/. really thinks that way. Heck, I how stupid would one have to be to associate "communism" with an attempt to protect a copyright, given that that's the exact opposite of communistic ideals?
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Uh... What's so much more dangerous about Hydrogen in comparison with gasoline??
The use of neural network techniques allows us to tolerate considerable amounts of system noise -- indeed, the system requires noise -- and therefore provides a more scalable solution than conventional means.
Huh?? If noise is a problem, then shield the damn thing! I mean, scheduling and switching aren't exactly about dealing with "dirty" sensorical data, so what the fuck is this guy talking about?
You've never actually read law texts, have you? Many of them are incredibly broad, leaving everything to the judge.
I'd take ivory tower academics any day over corporal greed that has the one aim to remove any barriers preventing them to milk their customers for all they have and make damn sure that people don't even have the choice not to be a customer.
That's idiotic. Doing serious development work is really the last thing you can do between "real" projects when no one's looking.
All in all, it's a rather expensive tab we all pay for 'Free' software.
Double bull. From a global economical standpoint, free software is a big plus because it means that people educate themselves and have the means to do so without having to pay loads of money that many don't have. Free software provides the digital world with an essential infrastructure for everyone and thereby promotes growth and equality.
Sadly, that's only true if not complying means technical incompatibility. There's heaps of RFCs or part of RFCs that are violated whenever it's convenient because doing it doesn't have negative consequences. The best example are forged "From:" adress fields in emails and Usenet postings.
... a bit late? I though the dinosaur mating season was spring?
Just to make this clear: the real point of RISC is not the reduction of commands, it's the "normalization" of commands, to make them more pipeline- and parallelization-friendly.
I agree that the "code morphing" is probably inconsequential, but the actual point of the Crusoe that makes it very different from all the other processors is its extremely low power consumption. How this is a great benefit in a mobile, battery-dependant computer should be quite obvious. Which is why I really don't understand the original poster's cry for a desktop system.
Because there is, literally no alternative! Or are you seriously proposing to use uncompressed, 10M-per-minute WAVs? The problem is that the patents which Fraunhofer (and perhaps others) owns are so basic that it's simply not possible to do really good audio compression without infringing on those patents. And that is exactly the reason why software patents are bad...
It's possible that the maintenance of the x86 farm is still cheaper than the loans for a big Sun server. If it reallly made a big difference cost-wise, they could have made it a Linux-on-Sparc cluster and still have the same PR effect for Linux.
The exact same thing is true for software development, probably any sort of development. And that's why there still are localized "technology hotspots". It may change once the internet is fast enough to allow real video teleconferencing, but until then, "telecommuting" is not really viable.
You failed to mention any of the Magic Buzzwords (B2B, E-commerce,...) so your firm will surely fail.
I suppose that accounts for the claims that the internet will make jobs location-independant...
Um, doesn't API stand for abstract programming interface??
Again the internet is a great thing, but technophiles need to realize that there are a whole lot of problems that it can't solve and there are other, more important things.
Are you serious a K7 aka Athlon??? The chip with the friggin' fourty Watt power consumption??
The compile took barely over an hour!
Cuz' investors are stupid and lazy, "venture capitalists" doubly so. Buzzwords offer a simple way for them to decide where to invest their money without having to think or (gasp!) do research.
You should. ASAP.
Still, he does an admirable job of separating newbies (and people with zero pattern-recognition ability) from "experienced" /.ers. Now if only anyone needed that...
Not quite. IMO, trolling consists of deliberately taking such a position with the intent to generate a violent, flame-filled response. And the original poster wasn't just stating an opinion. Using rdicules like "open sores" and "long-haired, bearded wackos like [...] Linux Torebals" is flamebait, pure and simple.
Well, he'd probably been followed up by about 5 people complaining how /. was nothing but a playground of brainless Linux zealots. Sound familiar?
The calmer people would probably respond "IE never was relevant, considering that there's no linux version."
He wouldn't be labelled a troll, true, but that is correct, taking into account the nature of /.
Were that line posted on comp.os.windows.advocacy, then it would be a troll, just like the posting a few levels up was a troll on /.
Timothy assumes that since M16 is available, it must be ok to download it and do whatever you want with it.
And he's prefectly correct to assume so because of the nature of the Mozilla project, which he and everyone here knows about.
Everyone and their brother assumes that since mp3's are up on Napster, they're available for everyone as a God-given right, and anyone who tries to take that away is a filthy communist, etc. If somebody runs a w4r3z site, it's completely legit to download software from it (it was posted, right, so it must be ok!),
That's idiotic. No-one in their right mind, and hardly anyone here on /. really thinks that way. Heck, I how stupid would one have to be to associate "communism" with an attempt to protect a copyright, given that that's the exact opposite of communistic ideals?
We weren't doing that. We were calling someone who was posting a "different opinion" embedded in falmes and flamebait a troll, and rightfully so.