I worked at CWRU, which is one of the charter schools, and our regular internet feed was an OC-3. The I2 feed I think will start out at an OC-3, and was eventually to move to an OC-12 (622Mb/s). Unfortunately, OARNet, the Ohio Educational 'net provider has only OC-3 trunks, so probly not. The gigapops are aptly named. The coolest thing about working on that campus was that we had ATM everywhere, and ATM is the key tech on I2.
Re:Whatever happened to "fitting on a floppy"?
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I don't know about Gecko, but I know QNX had a really nifty demo that booted, ran a minimal windowing system and tcp/ip stack with ppp support and a small browser. And it all fit on a floppy. I really respect the people who designed and built that OS.
Somehow I doubt they're using additive color. I can't imagine how strong a CRT tube would have to be to light up a theater screen. More likely they're using some kind of transmissive (like LCD) setup. I think the fact that they're showing a digitally created movie (TS2) has a lot to do with the perceived quality.
Moore's law has nothing to do with storage. It has to do with processor power. I have serious problems applying it to anything but processors, and even then I don't think it can hold out too much longer.
Yeah. Sorry to put a damper on the enthusiasm, but after looking at the "Hello World" tutorial, it looks like this is only Java extensions. Until we have a GPL Java or clone, this isn't a really completely "free" system. Not to diminish HP's contribution, on the contrary, kudos for the hard work and foresight.
Not to argue with your figures, but I think it would be more representative if you showed per capita for the US vs per capita for China. Here's the stats from
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I worked at CWRU, which is one of the charter schools, and our regular internet feed was an OC-3. The I2 feed I think will start out at an OC-3, and was eventually to move to an OC-12 (622Mb/s). Unfortunately, OARNet, the Ohio Educational 'net provider has only OC-3 trunks, so probly not. The gigapops are aptly named. The coolest thing about working on that campus was that we had ATM everywhere, and ATM is the key tech on I2.
I don't know about Gecko, but I know QNX had a really nifty demo that booted, ran a minimal windowing system and tcp/ip stack with ppp support and a small browser. And it all fit on a floppy. I really respect the people who designed and built that OS.
Somehow I doubt they're using additive color. I can't imagine how strong a CRT tube would have to be to light up a theater screen. More likely they're using some kind of transmissive (like LCD) setup.
I think the fact that they're showing a digitally created movie (TS2) has a lot to do with the perceived quality.
Moore's law has nothing to do with storage. It has to do with processor power. I have serious problems applying it to anything but processors, and even then I don't think it can hold out too much longer.
Heh, for fun I tried asking a Staples salesperson which laser printers they sold were Postscript compatible. "Postwhat?!?"
Good luck getting a SPECint rating...
Yeah. Sorry to put a damper on the enthusiasm, but after looking at the "Hello World" tutorial, it looks like this is only Java extensions. Until we have a GPL Java or clone, this isn't a really completely "free" system. Not to diminish HP's contribution, on the contrary, kudos for the hard work and foresight.
D-rock
Not to argue with your figures, but I think it would be more representative if you showed per capita for the US vs per capita for China. Here's the stats from
http://sun.soci.niu.edu/~critcrim/dp/cp97
Status of the death penalty, December 31, 1997
Executions during 1997
Texas 37
Virginia 9
Missouri 6
Arkansas 4
Alabama 3
Arizona 2
Illinois 2
South Carolina 2
Colorado 1
Florida 1
Indiana 1
Kentucky 1
Louisiana 1
Maryland 1
Nebraska 1
Oklahoma 1
Oregon 1
Total 74
that's 74 per US population of roughly 274M (http://www.census.gov/), or one per roughly 3,700,000. Texas just happens to execute the most people.