Action Method Online (www.actionmethod.com) is a great task management online app with the best iphone companion app out there. For desktop capability, they offer an Adobe AIR client.
You are absolutely correct. It amazes me how large of a market x86 commands with the undisputed worst instruction set design. Even x86 processors know their limitations and merely translate the instructions into more RISC-like 'micro-ops' (as intel calls them) for quick and efficient execution. Lucky for us, this translation 'baggage' only occupies, what, 10% of total chip design now? Had several industry giants competed on perfecting a PowerPC-based design with the same amount of funding as x86 has received, we would be years ahead of where we are now.
Couldn't you design a modular AJAX system that would bring in functions as they are needed? Yes, and most ajax programmers already do it. But...you do need the first initial 'core' library to build upon. I primarily use jQuery - which is compressed down to ~23k. I think that is acceptable for a home page. From there, the scripts are either inline in the html via the tag, or downloaded 'ajaxically' via the $.get() call. Google's solution would work, fairly well, although I don't think enough sites use those frameworks consistently, in the same version, to really make a difference.
Yes, and no. So far with going to Mars the primary concern is ship weight. An extra crew member + food + life support systems to sustain them is a difficult task to manage when they can have teams of highly skilled surgeons performing robotic surgery from earth. Only thing to worry about now is losing communications.
It's not that we are back to the mainframe + terminal architecture, we are now onto the mainframe + desktop integration. Of course you need that quad core, quad 8800GTX to display database queries from your P-Series.
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Action Method Online (www.actionmethod.com) is a great task management online app with the best iphone companion app out there. For desktop capability, they offer an Adobe AIR client.
You are absolutely correct. It amazes me how large of a market x86 commands with the undisputed worst instruction set design. Even x86 processors know their limitations and merely translate the instructions into more RISC-like 'micro-ops' (as intel calls them) for quick and efficient execution. Lucky for us, this translation 'baggage' only occupies, what, 10% of total chip design now? Had several industry giants competed on perfecting a PowerPC-based design with the same amount of funding as x86 has received, we would be years ahead of where we are now.
Yes, and no. So far with going to Mars the primary concern is ship weight. An extra crew member + food + life support systems to sustain them is a difficult task to manage when they can have teams of highly skilled surgeons performing robotic surgery from earth. Only thing to worry about now is losing communications.
Now we can have open-source linux fanatics...graduating from elementary school.
It's not that we are back to the mainframe + terminal architecture, we are now onto the mainframe + desktop integration. Of course you need that quad core, quad 8800GTX to display database queries from your P-Series.