While I agree with you that isolation based on language feature isn't a particulary new concept, Microsoft's SIP have their own twist: the channel they're using for messaging must repect some kind of FSM for the communication state, which helps in case of error for assigning the blame.
Uh? Most people don't even know what is the power consumption of their desktop! And most of those who care, care only because power --> heat --> fan noise and big case.
So I don't think that 300W is an issue (with an heatpipe to avoid fan noise), the software for this kind of new architecture will be the biggest issue: GPUs have evolved 'progressively' providing new feature AND good performance for the existing games, this will be much more difficult for Larrabee.
>>I love Gnome and I understand Mono is a somewhat simpler (than C++) way to build programs for it, but is it really necessary? > Dunno about 'necessary', but.net and C# are good stuff[cut]
That's debatable, a clone of Java isn't that much interesting IMHO.
>>I just find it's terribly dumb to let both your specification and the reference implementation to be under the control of your >> worst enemy. >By this logic, AMD should stop making x86 CPUs.
Mmmh, x86 the ISA isn't totally under the control of Intel, as shown by the x86-64 extension that AMD made and that Intel was forced to take. For the rest, do you remember that AMD has initiated a lawsuit against Intel for 'monopoly abuse'?
>BTW, it's not nice to call people dumb, especially when the evidence is overwhelmingly against it.
MDI is clearly a very good programmer, but he hasn't shown that his viewpoint about Microsoft dumb is reasonable..
>>As for Silverlight... Yuck. >I presume that 'yuck' is entirely an expression of your feelings towards Microsoft, and not about anything concrete.
Or maybe his disgust about yet another proprietary solution, but hey you're free to take the hook.
Yep, I've heard that the power in the ring fluctuate because of moon attraction.. Imagine: Boss> Ok, we have weird results from time to time, your mission is to find the cause. [month laters] Engineer> Eureka, I've found that it's moon attraction which change the ring's length so it has an impact on on our measurements! Boss> What took you so long? Engineer> *Argh* [die of an heart attack]
will not?? It has already happened! If you have a software which is certified with distribution X, it may or may not run on distribution Y: you have no guarantee, the fragmentation is already here.
Features may be ported, but not necessarily in a compatible way: witness how easily the rpm tools have fragmented recently, ok there is now an effort to reunite them, but this example show that licensing compatibility is by now means sufficient to ensure binary compatibility, which is what LSB is about.
Stop joking! You're suggesting that FF should have a robust architecture?? The next time, you'll suggest that they use properly threads|process so that one tab which freeze cannot freeze the whole window!
Tss, that would mean that FF would be *properly designed*, shock, horror!!
Calling 'best looking' fitting a mathematical definition which has nothing to do with actually looking good is false advertising I think!
When I was a student, I was able to distinguish the paper made with LaTeX from the other, they looked different: did they look better? IMHO No, especially because the schema were often poorly placed.
[[ if you're starting your third year of university and you decide that math is not for you and you'd rather go into engineering, guess what? Back to the end of the line! You get to start over from freshman year. Never mind that 90% of your courses would still apply. ]]
I don't know: I've made Supelec (an enginerring school): we had some university guys which entered in second year: they were quite smart and very highly competitive in many subjects, except in one part: maths, where they were left behind..
So math in university isn't apparently the same as math in 'classe prepatoire' (no idea if this has an English equivalent?), so taking additional class to compensate the difference doesn't seem to me such a bad idea, but of course having to redo the same class would be stupid of course.
>Alsa's had this for ages - I'm not sure what the big deal with phonon/pulseaudio/esd is.
Except that when KDE selected an audio API the last time, Alsa didn't exist and the one they selected is dead. Learning from experience (Audio under Linux is a mess) they abstracted it: anyway they would have to do it for portability.
Well you've lost, the reason I reacted the way I did is that it must be the third time that I read about this LCD improvement which I consider to be less interesting than OLED or SED techno.
I don't like Microsoft softwares&tactics in general, but that's not the reason why I reacted like this. Note that the company at the forefrount of the OLED is Sony, the rootkit company..
Except that OLEDs and SEDs in theory also reduce the power consumption over normal LCD, as the pixels themselves emit light so there's no need of backlight. Sure SEDs and OLEDs are not really mass produced currently, but neither is this new technology for LCDs.
And SEDs and OLEDs have many other advantage over LCDs: better refresh rate, contrast, viewing angle (reliability for SEDs). So this new LCD technology isn't very exciting..
OLEDs and SEDs have many advantages over LCD (the big disadvantage being that they're not mass-produced cheaply currently: OLEDs are produced but they're not cheap)..
So I'm not very excited about a technology which only cuts the power consumption of LCDs..
[[Apple has played nice with the Konqueror folks and gone out of their way to help them integrate changes and revise the way the shared code base was developed such that improvements from multiple groups including Konqueror, Apple, and Nokia can all be included.]]
Only after many complaints from Konqueror developers: at the beginning Apple didn't cooperate much.. Apple was probably worried of having a bad image in the opensource community.
In theory, you're right, in practice look at the recent troubles of the KDE project because they released their version tagged as KDE4.0 instead of "KDE4.0beta" or "KDE4.0developer edition": version number are used by people as a guideline: "beta=don't touch", otherwise "I can use it" whatever is said in the release notes.
So respecting the "normal" version numbering scheme really helps avoiding troubles.
NB: In fact I consider this also as a failure of the distributions: they are so focused on releasing the 'latest and greatest' that they provided KDE4.0 version of their software without the added warnings that they should have provided.
>Rollable makes little sense because you'll just look like you have a donkey dick in your pocket.
Bah, you could wear it like it a light saber (though rain may be an issue). The problem I foresee is that when you unroll it, you'd want to have the screen to become like a book: flat and rigid: I don't see how it would be possible.
Note that I would say also 'How is-it possible that Americans reelected Bush?' It'll take *many* death sentence in Iran to equal the number of dead Irak people caused by Bush actions justified either by incompetency and/or by lies yet he was reelected..
For what it's worth, here's my personal preferences: - a LCD is much better. - I found that black on light grey is the most pleasant combination for me.
Uh? There are many sites which provide videos (of conference and the like) but which doesn't try to earn money by ads..
Sure some website doesn't use the video tag for fear of loosing ad hits, but who cares? Having a video tag would simplify video delivery for all the other site, this is what matters!
Some things are missing: - responsiveness: if one tab is 'freezed', the whole browser must not be freezed (yes, Firefox I'm talking about you) - resource usage display: when your browser takes 99% of CPU, there's something wrong, which of the multiple window and tab is using the CPU? The user can't know it actually.. There should be a way to display resource usage (memory and CPU) per window and per tab so that you can react.
Obviously the photons absorbed gives you only half the momentum of the photon reflected, but as solar cells absorbs photon only on some frequency range, the other could be reflected, so you'd loose less than half of the momentum.
But the weight of the solar cells is probably much higher than the weight of a normal solair sail..
Except that calling "invading Irak" protecting the US country is a *very big stretch*.
Note, this isn't restricted to the US: French soldiers died fighting against Germany invasion but also invading colonies, calling an invasion 'protecting' your home country is plain bullshit (unless of course the other country is planning to attack you which wasn't the case in both the examples I gave).
>(a) in general we have a lower level of civility in society, and (b) this stems from a much lower level of RELIGION in family and individual life.
[sarcasm]Of course, the only way to have moral and civility is through religion[/sarcasm] *Sigh*, I'm French and we have a quite high percentage of atheist/agnostic, and you know what? Our society isn't less civil that the North American' one.. There are some North European countries which have even more atheist/agnostic than us and guess what? Their society is even more advanced (less violent & more civil)!
But logic is probably too much to ask to religious people (by definition).
I'm French and here also the gas price is much higher than in the US, but 'the quit whining' is a bit harsh: remember that in the US the distance are much bigger than in Europe so this make them more dependants on their car and use more gas, and the low density doesn't help for public transportation also.
In one point you're correct though: their usage of big cars is dumb..
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While I agree with you that isolation based on language feature isn't a particulary new concept, Microsoft's SIP have their own twist: the channel they're using for messaging must repect some kind of FSM for the communication state, which helps in case of error for assigning the blame.
Uh? Most people don't even know what is the power consumption of their desktop!
And most of those who care, care only because power --> heat --> fan noise and big case.
So I don't think that 300W is an issue (with an heatpipe to avoid fan noise), the software for this kind of new architecture will be the biggest issue: GPUs have evolved 'progressively' providing new feature AND good performance for the existing games, this will be much more difficult for Larrabee.
>>I love Gnome and I understand Mono is a somewhat simpler (than C++) way to build programs for it, but is it really necessary? .net and C# are good stuff[cut]
> Dunno about 'necessary', but
That's debatable, a clone of Java isn't that much interesting IMHO.
>>I just find it's terribly dumb to let both your specification and the reference implementation to be under the control of your >> worst enemy.
>By this logic, AMD should stop making x86 CPUs.
Mmmh, x86 the ISA isn't totally under the control of Intel, as shown by the x86-64 extension that AMD made and that Intel was forced to take. For the rest, do you remember that AMD has initiated a lawsuit against Intel for 'monopoly abuse'?
>BTW, it's not nice to call people dumb, especially when the evidence is overwhelmingly against it.
MDI is clearly a very good programmer, but he hasn't shown that his viewpoint about Microsoft dumb is reasonable..
>>As for Silverlight... Yuck.
>I presume that 'yuck' is entirely an expression of your feelings towards Microsoft, and not about anything concrete.
Or maybe his disgust about yet another proprietary solution, but hey you're free to take the hook.
Yep, I've heard that the power in the ring fluctuate because of moon attraction..
Imagine:
Boss> Ok, we have weird results from time to time, your mission is to find the cause.
[month laters]
Engineer> Eureka, I've found that it's moon attraction which change the ring's length so it has an impact on on our measurements!
Boss> What took you so long?
Engineer> *Argh* [die of an heart attack]
>the fragmentation will not happen
will not?? It has already happened! If you have a software which is certified with distribution X, it may or may not run on distribution Y: you have no guarantee, the fragmentation is already here.
Features may be ported, but not necessarily in a compatible way: witness how easily the rpm tools have fragmented recently, ok there is now an effort to reunite them, but this example show that licensing compatibility is by now means sufficient to ensure binary compatibility, which is what LSB is about.
Stop joking! You're suggesting that FF should have a robust architecture??
The next time, you'll suggest that they use properly threads|process so that one tab which freeze cannot freeze the whole window!
Tss, that would mean that FF would be *properly designed*, shock, horror!!
Calling 'best looking' fitting a mathematical definition which has nothing to do with actually looking good is false advertising I think!
When I was a student, I was able to distinguish the paper made with LaTeX from the other, they looked different: did they look better?
IMHO No, especially because the schema were often poorly placed.
[[ if you're starting your third year of university and you decide that math is not for you and you'd rather go into engineering, guess what? Back to the end of the line! You get to start over from freshman year. Never mind that 90% of your courses would still apply. ]]
I don't know: I've made Supelec (an enginerring school): we had some university guys which entered in second year: they were quite smart and very highly competitive in many subjects, except in one part: maths, where they were left behind..
So math in university isn't apparently the same as math in 'classe prepatoire' (no idea if this has an English equivalent?), so taking additional class to compensate the difference doesn't seem to me such a bad idea, but of course having to redo the same class would be stupid of course.
>Alsa's had this for ages - I'm not sure what the big deal with phonon/pulseaudio/esd is.
Except that when KDE selected an audio API the last time, Alsa didn't exist and the one they selected is dead.
Learning from experience (Audio under Linux is a mess) they abstracted it: anyway they would have to do it for portability.
Well you've lost, the reason I reacted the way I did is that it must be the third time that I read about this LCD improvement which I consider to be less interesting than OLED or SED techno.
I don't like Microsoft softwares&tactics in general, but that's not the reason why I reacted like this. Note that the company at the forefrount of the OLED is Sony, the rootkit company..
Now of course, any working technology is better than 'pipe dream', but the prototypes shown by Sony make me hope that OLEDs will truly arrive in a few years (there is speculation that Sony's XEL-1 despite its price is sold at a loss):
http://www.ubergizmo.com/15/archives/2008/01/sony_27inch_oled_tv_prototype.html
Except that OLEDs and SEDs in theory also reduce the power consumption over normal LCD, as the pixels themselves emit light so there's no need of backlight.
Sure SEDs and OLEDs are not really mass produced currently, but neither is this new technology for LCDs.
And SEDs and OLEDs have many other advantage over LCDs: better refresh rate, contrast, viewing angle (reliability for SEDs).
So this new LCD technology isn't very exciting..
OLEDs and SEDs have many advantages over LCD (the big disadvantage being that they're not mass-produced cheaply currently: OLEDs are produced but they're not cheap)..
So I'm not very excited about a technology which only cuts the power consumption of LCDs..
[[Apple has played nice with the Konqueror folks and gone out of their way to help them integrate changes and revise the way the shared code base was developed such that improvements from multiple groups including Konqueror, Apple, and Nokia can all be included.]]
Only after many complaints from Konqueror developers: at the beginning Apple didn't cooperate much.. Apple was probably worried of having a bad image in the opensource community.
In theory, you're right, in practice look at the recent troubles of the KDE project because they released their version tagged as KDE4.0 instead of "KDE4.0beta" or "KDE4.0developer edition": version number are used by people as a guideline: "beta=don't touch", otherwise "I can use it" whatever is said in the release notes.
So respecting the "normal" version numbering scheme really helps avoiding troubles.
NB: In fact I consider this also as a failure of the distributions: they are so focused on releasing the 'latest and greatest' that they provided KDE4.0 version of their software without the added warnings that they should have provided.
>Rollable makes little sense because you'll just look like you have a donkey dick in your pocket.
Bah, you could wear it like it a light saber (though rain may be an issue).
The problem I foresee is that when you unroll it, you'd want to have the screen to become like a book: flat and rigid: I don't see how it would be possible.
A case of biased sample obviously.
Note that I would say also 'How is-it possible that Americans reelected Bush?'
It'll take *many* death sentence in Iran to equal the number of dead Irak people caused by Bush actions justified either by incompetency and/or by lies yet he was reelected..
(I'm neither from Irak, Iran or the USA).
For what it's worth, here's my personal preferences:
- a LCD is much better.
- I found that black on light grey is the most pleasant combination for me.
Uh? There are many sites which provide videos (of conference and the like) but which doesn't try to earn money by ads..
Sure some website doesn't use the video tag for fear of loosing ad hits, but who cares? Having a video tag would simplify video delivery for all the other site, this is what matters!
Some things are missing:
- responsiveness: if one tab is 'freezed', the whole browser must not be freezed (yes, Firefox I'm talking about you)
- resource usage display: when your browser takes 99% of CPU, there's something wrong, which of the multiple window and tab is using the CPU?
The user can't know it actually.. There should be a way to display resource usage (memory and CPU) per window and per tab so that you can react.
Obviously the photons absorbed gives you only half the momentum of the photon reflected, but as solar cells absorbs photon only on some frequency range, the other could be reflected, so you'd loose less than half of the momentum.
But the weight of the solar cells is probably much higher than the weight of a normal solair sail..
Except that calling "invading Irak" protecting the US country is a *very big stretch*.
Note, this isn't restricted to the US: French soldiers died fighting against Germany invasion but also invading colonies, calling an invasion 'protecting' your home country is plain bullshit (unless of course the other country is planning to attack you which wasn't the case in both the examples I gave).
Saying the truth is perfectly civil, even if it hurts when you hear it..
>(a) in general we have a lower level of civility in society, and (b) this stems from a much lower level of RELIGION in family and individual life.
[sarcasm]Of course, the only way to have moral and civility is through religion[/sarcasm]
*Sigh*, I'm French and we have a quite high percentage of atheist/agnostic, and you know what?
Our society isn't less civil that the North American' one..
There are some North European countries which have even more atheist/agnostic than us and guess what?
Their society is even more advanced (less violent & more civil)!
But logic is probably too much to ask to religious people (by definition).
*You* wanted to show it some music, but maybe your kid wasn't interested in music at the time you did it, so of course he didn't focus on it.
But no, obviously your 'anecdote' show that all these kids have ADD.
I'm French and here also the gas price is much higher than in the US, but 'the quit whining' is a bit harsh: remember that in the US the distance are much bigger than in Europe so this make them more dependants on their car and use more gas, and the low density doesn't help for public transportation also.
In one point you're correct though: their usage of big cars is dumb..