Solaris is not need for UltraSPARC. That's a myth.
UltraSPARC needs Solaris to live on is the more likely scenario.
In the next 12-18 months the we are going to see a fair amount of cheap x86/x64 multicore come on line. I mean more than 8 cores.
For the most part this is going to obsolete the SPARC. Since SPARC development has slowed to a narcoleptic snails pace.
I personally love working with Solaris. It's consistent and strong. Linux is still not up to the Enterprise levels that Solaris is. But man Linux has made massive progress in the last 24 months.
In 36 months those Uber T2 SPARC machines are going in the tip. Sure there is going to be some lost tech when the SPARC dies. There is lots x86/x64 has to catch up on. But one thing it doesn't have to catch up on is price. I can solve the performance gap fairly quickly by tossing another Dell blade in the rack and still be cheaper.
RedHat and Conical(Ubuntu) both are excellent contenders to usurp Solaris as the Enterprise OS in the server room. ( It could be argued that RedHat already has. )
P.S. I won't miss Solaris package management give me a debian packaging any day.
1. It's the hook. When you stroll down the street. All of a sudden you see that creature of amazing beauty. You are captivated. At this point in time you know nothing else about this person. All you know is the visual physical form. No other positive attribute has been expressed. You have been hooked.
2. It stimulates "The" primary sense. Ask any woman out there.:) You tickle that part of the anatomy that contains both a huge bundle of nerves and a large portion of the brain devoted to processing the signals from that bundle and you are basically playing with a future addiction. The brain enjoys processing this vast input.
3. Similar to #2. As one of your senses if you stimulate it in the appropriate manor the body will release a suite of pleasure drugs.
Basically graphics are immensely important to mass adoption of a video game or most products these days. There will always be a subset of people with more abstract cognitive abilities that derive pleasure the more complex aspects that do not involve graphics. But they are a subset. Graphics are critical in appealing to the masses. Case in point anything Apple. Stunningly designed products, mass visual appeal. But are apple products the pinnacle of current technology? No.
No better proof of these statements is the Television. Over night this changed world social interaction. Video games are simply one of the evolutionary steps of the television. The questions is. "Where is this evolution going to lead?"
Where do you live? Where do you work? How do I move there? Who do I have to bribe to get a job there?
Clearly you have project managers of value for you to mention them as valuable assets! Actually contributers to the process and progression of a project?
I for one knew this was all hoo hoo when I first read about how Canadians loose between $10-30 billion a year. That's $333-1000 per man, woman & child. I would barely consume the $333 myself in a year. My 99 year old grand mother would be in the order of 50c a decade these days. And my newborn child well he's a software junky at oh lets say NOTHING. Sure I could find a 16 year old girl that eats $1000 a month in itunes alone. But on average for every breathing person in Canada a number like $333 is insane.
The per capita income of every person in Canada is $39,300USD (2008 est.) or $45,674.47 CAD. before tax. These reports are basically saying that every person in Canada steals any where from 1-3% after tax income in the form of download-able music/movies and software. Assuming a 30% tax rate ( I pulled 30% out of thin air ). This is not saying that ALL consumption is illegal, All it is saying that every breathing human in Canada steals the equivalent of 1-3% of their net income on a subset of media. This is an insanely huge number people.
Bottom line is the media companies are lazy and greedy. One of the most fundamental reasons why people download entertain is quite simple. It comes in a form that is easy to use and extremely convenient. The entertainment industries really missed the opportunity back in the 90's when all this started. Instead of actually looking at this consumption path as a HUGE source of revenue that s$%t themselves and paniced. Instead of investing in this essentially new industry they took the easy route ( so they thought ) and tried to get the courts and governments of the planet to essentially make it law that traditional consumption methods must be adhered to. This at the relatively trivial cost of lobby groups and legal consults ( so they thought ).
I'm no Apple fan boy. But you gotta respect Apple when they basically said. âoeWe are doing this and you will play along and you will make a profit through us. So sit down shut up and this the damn cheque already. Oh and you have no manufacturing or shipping costs. That's now free. So The cheque is basically 100% profit.â I'm still amazed the media companies tried to stop them. Absolutely stunned. ( I'm ignoring the whole DRM thing, that rant is already done. )
So back full circle. After 15+ years of this borderline moronic adventure the entertainment industry they are still at it. ( Even my dog learns faster than these people. ) They are still trying to manipulate world governments and laws so that they can have an easy ride to the money. Guys clearly it is not an easy ride the path you are on. Wake up, Apple, Amazon are making easy money for you. They are clearly on the easy path. Stop the lying and cheating and just start delivering product in forms people want. You will make more easy money.
First thing. I'm not war monger. I think every gun on the planet should be destroyed. Even the ones used for "sport", "hunting", blah blah blah.
Now Professor == Smart Guy/Gal you would think. I'm sorry but the parrots that beg for food from me on my balcony are now all saying "Well Duh!". They are clearly smarter than this "Smart Guy". Lets show as many people as we can significant portions of plans for a flying robot that has enough lift capacity and range to be a weapons platform. How dumb can you be.
Many years ago I came up with a method for eliminating driving related accidents. With the exception of accidents caused by factors outside of the control of the driver. It's amazingly cheap and easy to implement. All it requires is ink. That's it.
When I driver commits his/her first obvious idiot move behind the wheel. I mean something really stupid. Like drink driving. Double the speed limit etc. Something that basically could very easily mean someones death. You take their id and then stamp "TO STUPID TO DRIVE" across the front of it. This tag "TO STUPID TO DRIVE" will also be printed on all other forms of identification once they are renewed. This is forever, the shame will follow you to your grave.
Offence #2, Clearly this individual is even dumber than ever imagined. Again ink to the rescue. This time in the form of a tattoo. Square on the forehead. "To Stupid to Drive" and "evirD ot diputS oT" below it.
Now my problem is how do I modify this ink plan of mine to handle this "Smart Guys" moron move?
I would argue it's not that there is a disdain for the language but rather...
Would it not be better to teach someone a language that they might be able to use for decades. As you say the good ones will adapt and flow into the next language/technique/style/idiom/trend.
I feel there is zero point in teaching a language that quite simply is of no relevance to getting something done in Business or Research.
FORTRAN should be dead. COBOL lives on because bean counters can't under stand the concept of upgrading. Pascal not actually a bad language. Long in the tooth, Got a few wrinkles down around the ankles but not bad.
I have to agree on the pop language front. I see no need to become the GURU in Ruby in the next 10 years.
P.S. This is a hint. The language that will truly change computing will be the language that allows us Apes to comprehend and write "true" multi threaded/core applications. I mean like 1000's of separate execution units working together for common purpose. ( Oh crap that's world piece not computer languages. )
Just have a gander at the globe. You see all that brown land. It's a fare chunk of the land surface. If even a hair of that was made habitable by the simple application of fresh water.
Just think North Africa could easily become the bread basket for Europe and Africa if it had fresh water. Australia could grow enough potatoes to feed all of the Irish and put Vodka in all of the Russians on the planet.
Cheap easy to implement desalination would be possibly the most important thing for man kind since the discovery of antibiotics. Fresh water is the single most important component in the implementation of organic carbon syncs. Fresh water is the single most important factor in the prevention of disease. Without Fresh water you don't have cows or wheat.
P.S. 100 miles is NOTHING when it comes to distance for a pipe. Good old Reagan proposed once to pipe water from Canada to CA so people could fill their pools.
In the last 18 months we have seen numerous announcements regarding solar power generation.
We've seen advances in -Manufacturing speed. -Toxic material reductions. -Efficiency boosts in rigid cells. -New products like this flexible.
Yah sure solar has issues. But now given a space that may be inappropriate for wind you can now find a solution in solar.
This is all good.
Maybe one day industry will be draining it's massive power needs from the residentially power generating grid. This should be more than doable in 20 years.
( Next item we need to add to the list of critically needed tech. Water purification and desalination that can be applied in the residential markets. Imagine how much land would open up for crops, settlement, and carbon sinking if we just had cheap and easy to deploy water desalination. )
I'd actually put the whole DRM thing under #1. DRM is not simple.
( Must resist urge to rant about DRM. Must resist................ ) Ah I think I'm through it. Urge ack Ooooo. A DRM solution that can actually render your equipment permanently useless because of an industry controlled black distributed on any media they like. ARE YOU MAD! ( sorry that slipped out )
The most successful products all have the same qualities.
1. Simple 2. Ubiquity 3. Affordable
HDMI is not simple. Ubiquity, Well I give it points here. It really was the first popular spec to finally include video and audio on one cable. Affordable. Not a chance. Ridiculous prices for cables and accessories.
1 out of 3 is not good enough to survive. HDMI is setting it self up to be toppled of it's lofty perch.
Wireless HDMI would rock. 1. It would be simplish ( Some marketing guy would F&*K this up with some screwed up we must know what you are broadcasting so we can tap your wallet. ) 2. Ubiquity. No real restriction here on what is on the channel. So basically everything should work with everything else. 3. NO HYPER EXPENSIVE CABLES. So that has to help the bottom line.
Oh wait. The wireless HDMI spec is already here. Can anyone say Wireless USB 3.
Rip the key board out mount the key board in some sort tin contraption. Now mount the keyboard and laptop in the tin contraption on the wall outside of the house/unit/apt/country lane.
Then put up a sign. "Please enter the 64char apt code then hit enter. To gain entry or ring tenant".
Now load the laptop up with every annoying you got the answer wrong game show sound. Just randomly play one of the files, when ever someone hits a key other than say "+". Where "+" actually rings you and lets you know someone is at the door.:)
1. ZFS, Good idea nice implementation. But a success path? Who knows. I got BETA on the brain at the moment. 2. ABSOLUTELY.
IBM a better mother ship for SUN. WTH?
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I'm sorry ( rant mode )
IBM is possibly one of the most over blown Enterprise companies on the planet. IBM buying SUN would have been a huge dis-service to IT and the evolution of the industry.
Note that IBM has become the new CA. Buy and pillage the corp resources. If it looks shiny and possibly something that will gen new money then brand it Tivoli. If we can milk the old name till it dies a death of agony brought on by starvation and dehydration we will. The best known near dead corpse we know as Rational.
I'm sorry but IBM is possibly a worse choice for buying SUN than Microsoft.
Don't get me wrong Oracle is no poster child of virtue out there. Oracle is definitely going to milk this all ribs and bones cow that is SUN microsystems. But at least the landscape at the end of the pillage will most likely still have a free Java and a free RDBMS. There is zero chance IBM would have left a potential cash flow alone like those two.
OK Here's one to put in the Calender. Google buys Microsoft. Feb 2012. I put one Aussie penny on it.:):)
But thank the corp gods that IBM did not buy Microsoft, Err I mean Sun. If you have dealt with IBM GSA you are then invited to tell me I'm wrong on this:)
I'm old enough to remember that rubbish in the press as well. But it started before 512Meg I remember asking a clerk if my $450 4Meg sim would degrade in potentially high radiation env's. Like the crap that comes from my microwave.
For a cosmic ray to have enough energy to flip a bit of memory would be fairly impressive. Has to hit the right spot + be the right energy to stimulate a relatively large device to think it's got a fresh signal. Not too likely.
I'd be more worried about that same cosmic ray causing a DNA error and giving me cancer.
Now of course if you were design inter stellar probes you have a definite concern on your hands. Once out past the Oort cloud ( OK farther than that ) you no longer have the magnet shield of our sun. Now we are in the Cosmic ray bath. This is where the odds of a bit flip is starting to get high. Now lets add the fact that you little probe is going to be out there a LONG time. I can bet a few bucks that yah you are going to suffer from a bit flip or 7.:)
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Oh Vista 64bit is a nightmare. 3 machines of mine have had it. ALL had major issues. back to XP 32 and ZERO issues. All of them just sing along now. My home server and a few minor devices run Ubuntu NEVER had an issue.
Am I looking forward to Windows 7? Nope. It means Win XP will really die and MS won't patch it. ( Prediction. Win 7 will suck as bad as Vista when people figure out it doesn't actually work on a EEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeePC after they install crap. ) ( Second prediction. The much touted touch screen interface additions in Win7 actually are really annoying to use. )
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Back to the Oort cloud. Why are you sending a PC out there again?
If you have read the posts here it is fairly clear that the one of the major problems is that IE8 is just IE7+1 or IE6+2.
Since most sites inspect to see if the browser is IE and then implement broken browser mode, is it not time that IE8 finally re-brand as a "NEW" browser.
Maybe identify as ZUNE8 instead. With the ZUNE tag it may actually look good. ZUNE market share goes from.00001% -> 23.00034% in less than one month. Microsoft hits it's first home run.
Yep, currently battery tech is very nasty on the env.
Stimulus cash in green tech / power creates jobs, with the goal of creating even more jobs with spin off industries. If one of those is a green power storage solution that gives jobs to people in the US, the country that funded the research via Stimulus money how can this be bad?
Lets face it. I actually trust a country like the US to develop a green tech like a friendly env battery over say a North Korea. If the US wants to spend cash to create jobs that are targeted around creating env sustainable tech then how can anyone possibly be against this?
North America spent their way out of the great depression by investing HEAVY into long term infrastructure projects. I don't see the difference here with spending on long term sustainable power technologies.
Personally I think every country on the planet should be investing HEAVY into long term sustainable infrastructure projects. My generation and my parents created this mess we are in, through just plain GREED and SELFISHNESS. It's time to support these sorts of agenda's that have true long term goals. Even if it means that in the short term life is going to suck.
Lets face it. Loose fiscal policy has done much more damage to the planet than toxic batteries. So what if one policy that has the goal of green batteries fails. Then next policy just might work. At least the motivation has you me and the rest of the plant in mind. As apposed to say sub-prime mortgages that allow people to consume ridiculous amounts of the worlds resources cause they can.
Everyone needs to support anything that will 1. create jobs, 2. encourage env sustainable tech, 3. reverse the damage WE have done.
It goes with out saying that some of these efforts are going to be flawed. Can't be as flawed as a $50,000,000,000 or a $8,000,000,000 investment scheme that the Bush style government supported.
( Sorry had a little rant there.:) Can't believe Bush was only mentioned at the end.:) )
I'm no MS fan boy that's for sure. But this story is just flame material.
1. The writer just wants to be seen. I'm screaming I'm screaming I need attention and my diapers changed. 2. Big deal the change is a feature. A change in a product every clued person on the planet is still going to shut off. As the UAC nag is still a nag in better cloths. 3. The title is catchy. "Security hole UAC." So clueless types on the net are jumping all over it a linking it.
THIS IS NOT A SECURITY HOLE. IT'S I'M A MORON USER THAT IS DESPERATE TO KICK THE DOOR OPEN TO HACKERS AND I'M STILL FAILING AT IT, PROBLEM.
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Solaris is not need for UltraSPARC. That's a myth.
UltraSPARC needs Solaris to live on is the more likely scenario.
In the next 12-18 months the we are going to see a fair amount of cheap x86/x64 multicore come on line. I mean more than 8 cores.
For the most part this is going to obsolete the SPARC. Since SPARC development has slowed to a narcoleptic snails pace.
I personally love working with Solaris. It's consistent and strong. Linux is still not up to the Enterprise levels that Solaris is. But man Linux has made massive progress in the last 24 months.
In 36 months those Uber T2 SPARC machines are going in the tip. Sure there is going to be some lost tech when the SPARC dies. There is lots x86/x64 has to catch up on. But one thing it doesn't have to catch up on is price. I can solve the performance gap fairly quickly by tossing another Dell blade in the rack and still be cheaper.
RedHat and Conical(Ubuntu) both are excellent contenders to usurp Solaris as the Enterprise OS in the server room. ( It could be argued that RedHat already has. )
P.S. I won't miss Solaris package management give me a debian packaging any day.
The importance is fairly simple in my ape brain.
1. It's the hook.
When you stroll down the street. All of a sudden you see that creature of amazing beauty. You are captivated.
At this point in time you know nothing else about this person. All you know is the visual physical form. No other positive attribute has been expressed. You have been hooked.
2. It stimulates "The" primary sense. :) You tickle that part of the anatomy that contains both a huge bundle of nerves and a large portion of the brain devoted to processing the signals from that bundle and you are basically playing with a future addiction. The brain enjoys processing this vast input.
Ask any woman out there.
3. Similar to #2. As one of your senses if you stimulate it in the appropriate manor the body will release a suite of pleasure drugs.
Basically graphics are immensely important to mass adoption of a video game or most products these days. There will always be a subset of people with more abstract cognitive abilities that derive pleasure the more complex aspects that do not involve graphics. But they are a subset. Graphics are critical in appealing to the masses. Case in point anything Apple. Stunningly designed products, mass visual appeal. But are apple products the pinnacle of current technology? No.
No better proof of these statements is the Television. Over night this changed world social interaction. Video games are simply one of the evolutionary steps of the television. The questions is. "Where is this evolution going to lead?"
??? Project Managers ???
Where do you live?
Where do you work?
How do I move there?
Who do I have to bribe to get a job there?
Clearly you have project managers of value for you to mention them as valuable assets! Actually contributers to the process and progression of a project?
I need to know desperately where this nirvana is!
What a second. Are you a project manager?
You have a typo there.
You said: "The only reason copyright exists is to allow a 3rd party to benefit from the works of an artist."
I think you meant "The only reason copyright exists is to allow a 3rd party to benefit on behalf of an artist." :)
I must congratulate Michael Geist on this work.
I for one knew this was all hoo hoo when I first read about how Canadians loose between $10-30 billion a year. That's $333-1000 per man, woman & child. I would barely consume the $333 myself in a year. My 99 year old grand mother would be in the order of 50c a decade these days. And my newborn child well he's a software junky at oh lets say NOTHING. Sure I could find a 16 year old girl that eats $1000 a month in itunes alone. But on average for every breathing person in Canada a number like $333 is insane.
The per capita income of every person in Canada is $39,300USD (2008 est.) or $45,674.47 CAD. before tax. These reports are basically saying that every person in Canada steals any where from 1-3% after tax income in the form of download-able music/movies and software. Assuming a 30% tax rate ( I pulled 30% out of thin air ). This is not saying that ALL consumption is illegal, All it is saying that every breathing human in Canada steals the equivalent of 1-3% of their net income on a subset of media. This is an insanely huge number people.
Bottom line is the media companies are lazy and greedy. One of the most fundamental reasons why people download entertain is quite simple. It comes in a form that is easy to use and extremely convenient. The entertainment industries really missed the opportunity back in the 90's when all this started. Instead of actually looking at this consumption path as a HUGE source of revenue that s$%t themselves and paniced. Instead of investing in this essentially new industry they took the easy route ( so they thought ) and tried to get the courts and governments of the planet to essentially make it law that traditional consumption methods must be adhered to. This at the relatively trivial cost of lobby groups and legal consults ( so they thought ).
I'm no Apple fan boy. But you gotta respect Apple when they basically said. âoeWe are doing this and you will play along and you will make a profit through us. So sit down shut up and this the damn cheque already. Oh and you have no manufacturing or shipping costs. That's now free. So The cheque is basically 100% profit.â I'm still amazed the media companies tried to stop them. Absolutely stunned. ( I'm ignoring the whole DRM thing, that rant is already done. )
So back full circle. After 15+ years of this borderline moronic adventure the entertainment industry they are still at it. ( Even my dog learns faster than these people. ) They are still trying to manipulate world governments and laws so that they can have an easy ride to the money. Guys clearly it is not an easy ride the path you are on. Wake up, Apple, Amazon are making easy money for you. They are clearly on the easy path. Stop the lying and cheating and just start delivering product in forms people want. You will make more easy money.
First thing. I'm not war monger. I think every gun on the planet should be destroyed. Even the ones used for "sport", "hunting", blah blah blah.
Now Professor == Smart Guy/Gal you would think. I'm sorry but the parrots that beg for food from me on my balcony are now all saying "Well Duh!". They are clearly smarter than this "Smart Guy". Lets show as many people as we can significant portions of plans for a flying robot that has enough lift capacity and range to be a weapons platform. How dumb can you be.
Many years ago I came up with a method for eliminating driving related accidents. With the exception of accidents caused by factors outside of the control of the driver. It's amazingly cheap and easy to implement. All it requires is ink. That's it.
When I driver commits his/her first obvious idiot move behind the wheel. I mean something really stupid. Like drink driving. Double the speed limit etc. Something that basically could very easily mean someones death. You take their id and then stamp "TO STUPID TO DRIVE" across the front of it. This tag "TO STUPID TO DRIVE" will also be printed on all other forms of identification once they are renewed. This is forever, the shame will follow you to your grave.
Offence #2, Clearly this individual is even dumber than ever imagined. Again ink to the rescue. This time in the form of a tattoo. Square on the forehead. "To Stupid to Drive" and "evirD ot diputS oT" below it.
Now my problem is how do I modify this ink plan of mine to handle this "Smart Guys" moron move?
So basically birds are toast, That's OK my car will be happier. And where exactly am I going to teach my kid how to fly a kite?
It does have the skid mark of .NET on it doesn't it. I feel dirty researching one those rare moments of insanity when look at WinTel horror.
Doh. Peace / Piece
I would argue it's not that there is a disdain for the language but rather...
Would it not be better to teach someone a language that they might be able to use for decades. As you say the good ones will adapt and flow into the next language/technique/style/idiom/trend.
I feel there is zero point in teaching a language that quite simply is of no relevance to getting something done in Business or Research.
FORTRAN should be dead.
COBOL lives on because bean counters can't under stand the concept of upgrading.
Pascal not actually a bad language. Long in the tooth, Got a few wrinkles down around the ankles but not bad.
I have to agree on the pop language front. I see no need to become the GURU in Ruby in the next 10 years.
P.S. This is a hint. The language that will truly change computing will be the language that allows us Apes to comprehend and write "true" multi threaded/core applications. I mean like 1000's of separate execution units working together for common purpose. ( Oh crap that's world piece not computer languages. )
Nope live in Aus.
Just have a gander at the globe. You see all that brown land. It's a fare chunk of the land surface. If even a hair of that was made habitable by the simple application of fresh water.
Just think North Africa could easily become the bread basket for Europe and Africa if it had fresh water. Australia could grow enough potatoes to feed all of the Irish and put Vodka in all of the Russians on the planet.
Cheap easy to implement desalination would be possibly the most important thing for man kind since the discovery of antibiotics. Fresh water is the single most important component in the implementation of organic carbon syncs. Fresh water is the single most important factor in the prevention of disease. Without Fresh water you don't have cows or wheat.
P.S. 100 miles is NOTHING when it comes to distance for a pipe. Good old Reagan proposed once to pipe water from Canada to CA so people could fill their pools.
I live in Aus and no I haven't played any online games in ages.
( I take a plot component in Fallout3 is about water? )
In the last 18 months we have seen numerous announcements regarding solar power generation.
We've seen advances in
-Manufacturing speed.
-Toxic material reductions.
-Efficiency boosts in rigid cells.
-New products like this flexible.
Yah sure solar has issues. But now given a space that may be inappropriate for wind you can now find a solution in solar.
This is all good.
Maybe one day industry will be draining it's massive power needs from the residentially power generating grid. This should be more than doable in 20 years.
( Next item we need to add to the list of critically needed tech. Water purification and desalination that can be applied in the residential markets. Imagine how much land would open up for crops, settlement, and carbon sinking if we just had cheap and easy to deploy water desalination. )
I'm in Aus,
Yah if I look a lot I could find a cheap source that would take days to deliver. Where as a USB for example I can get from 7/11 these days.
So yah not everyone is blessed with ready access to cheap cabling. As a matter of fact MOST are not blessed.
I'd actually put the whole DRM thing under #1. DRM is not simple.
( Must resist urge to rant about DRM. Must resist ................ ) Ah I think I'm through it. Urge ack Ooooo. A DRM solution that can actually render your equipment permanently useless because of an industry controlled black distributed on any media they like. ARE YOU MAD! ( sorry that slipped out )
The most successful products all have the same qualities.
1. Simple
2. Ubiquity
3. Affordable
HDMI is not simple.
Ubiquity, Well I give it points here. It really was the first popular spec to finally include video and audio on one cable.
Affordable. Not a chance. Ridiculous prices for cables and accessories.
1 out of 3 is not good enough to survive. HDMI is setting it self up to be toppled of it's lofty perch.
Wireless HDMI would rock.
1. It would be simplish ( Some marketing guy would F&*K this up with some screwed up we must know what you are broadcasting so we can tap your wallet. )
2. Ubiquity. No real restriction here on what is on the channel. So basically everything should work with everything else.
3. NO HYPER EXPENSIVE CABLES. So that has to help the bottom line.
Oh wait. The wireless HDMI spec is already here. Can anyone say Wireless USB 3.
Holy crap some large brown pink animal just fell out of the sky and crushed my Porche with my X in it.
Oh God my neighbors yappy Mexican pocket purse dog just got obliterated but appears to 400lbs of chops!
This is either a great day or about to be the worst day of my life!
Rip the key board out mount the key board in some sort tin contraption. Now mount the keyboard and laptop in the tin contraption on the wall outside of the house/unit/apt/country lane.
Then put up a sign.
"Please enter the 64char apt code then hit enter. To gain entry or ring tenant".
Now load the laptop up with every annoying you got the answer wrong game show sound. Just randomly play one of the files, when ever someone hits a key other than say "+". Where "+" actually rings you and lets you know someone is at the door. :)
12 - Transmeta Corp. Crusoe Processor (2000)
Yah OK technically not the 21st century. :)
But that's it? We haven't managed to come up with some new weirdo bizzaro way of adding numbers since 2000?
29 years 25 cips. 9 years nothing.
Are we at our limit? Or has comp sci evolved to some new level where the instruction set doesn't matter?
My Answers.
1. ZFS, Good idea nice implementation. But a success path? Who knows. I got BETA on the brain at the moment.
2. ABSOLUTELY.
I'm sorry ( rant mode )
IBM is possibly one of the most over blown Enterprise companies on the planet. IBM buying SUN would have been a huge dis-service to IT and the evolution of the industry.
Note that IBM has become the new CA. Buy and pillage the corp resources. If it looks shiny and possibly something that will gen new money then brand it Tivoli. If we can milk the old name till it dies a death of agony brought on by starvation and dehydration we will. The best known near dead corpse we know as Rational.
I'm sorry but IBM is possibly a worse choice for buying SUN than Microsoft.
Don't get me wrong Oracle is no poster child of virtue out there. Oracle is definitely going to milk this all ribs and bones cow that is SUN microsystems. But at least the landscape at the end of the pillage will most likely still have a free Java and a free RDBMS. There is zero chance IBM would have left a potential cash flow alone like those two.
OK Here's one to put in the Calender. Google buys Microsoft. Feb 2012. I put one Aussie penny on it. :) :)
But thank the corp gods that IBM did not buy Microsoft, Err I mean Sun. If you have dealt with IBM GSA you are then invited to tell me I'm wrong on this :)
I'm old enough to remember that rubbish in the press as well. But it started before 512Meg I remember asking a clerk if my $450 4Meg sim would degrade in potentially high radiation env's. Like the crap that comes from my microwave.
For a cosmic ray to have enough energy to flip a bit of memory would be fairly impressive. Has to hit the right spot + be the right energy to stimulate a relatively large device to think it's got a fresh signal. Not too likely.
I'd be more worried about that same cosmic ray causing a DNA error and giving me cancer.
Now of course if you were design inter stellar probes you have a definite concern on your hands. Once out past the Oort cloud ( OK farther than that ) you no longer have the magnet shield of our sun. Now we are in the Cosmic ray bath. This is where the odds of a bit flip is starting to get high. Now lets add the fact that you little probe is going to be out there a LONG time. I can bet a few bucks that yah you are going to suffer from a bit flip or 7. :)
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Oh Vista 64bit is a nightmare. 3 machines of mine have had it. ALL had major issues. back to XP 32 and ZERO issues. All of them just sing along now. My home server and a few minor devices run Ubuntu NEVER had an issue.
Am I looking forward to Windows 7? Nope. It means Win XP will really die and MS won't patch it. ( Prediction. Win 7 will suck as bad as Vista when people figure out it doesn't actually work on a EEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeePC after they install crap. ) ( Second prediction. The much touted touch screen interface additions in Win7 actually are really annoying to use. )
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Back to the Oort cloud. Why are you sending a PC out there again?
If you have read the posts here it is fairly clear that the one of the major problems is that IE8 is just IE7+1 or IE6+2.
Since most sites inspect to see if the browser is IE and then implement broken browser mode, is it not time that IE8 finally re-brand as a "NEW" browser.
Maybe identify as ZUNE8 instead. With the ZUNE tag it may actually look good. ZUNE market share goes from .00001% -> 23.00034% in less than one month. Microsoft hits it's first home run.
Yep, currently battery tech is very nasty on the env.
Stimulus cash in green tech / power creates jobs, with the goal of creating even more jobs with spin off industries. If one of those is a green power storage solution that gives jobs to people in the US, the country that funded the research via Stimulus money how can this be bad?
Lets face it. I actually trust a country like the US to develop a green tech like a friendly env battery over say a North Korea. If the US wants to spend cash to create jobs that are targeted around creating env sustainable tech then how can anyone possibly be against this?
North America spent their way out of the great depression by investing HEAVY into long term infrastructure projects. I don't see the difference here with spending on long term sustainable power technologies.
Personally I think every country on the planet should be investing HEAVY into long term sustainable infrastructure projects. My generation and my parents created this mess we are in, through just plain GREED and SELFISHNESS. It's time to support these sorts of agenda's that have true long term goals. Even if it means that in the short term life is going to suck.
Lets face it. Loose fiscal policy has done much more damage to the planet than toxic batteries. So what if one policy that has the goal of green batteries fails. Then next policy just might work. At least the motivation has you me and the rest of the plant in mind. As apposed to say sub-prime mortgages that allow people to consume ridiculous amounts of the worlds resources cause they can.
Everyone needs to support anything that will
1. create jobs,
2. encourage env sustainable tech,
3. reverse the damage WE have done.
It goes with out saying that some of these efforts are going to be flawed. Can't be as flawed as a $50,000,000,000 or a $8,000,000,000 investment scheme that the Bush style government supported.
( Sorry had a little rant there. :) Can't believe Bush was only mentioned at the end. :) )
I'm no MS fan boy that's for sure. But this story is just flame material.
1. The writer just wants to be seen. I'm screaming I'm screaming I need attention and my diapers changed.
2. Big deal the change is a feature. A change in a product every clued person on the planet is still going to shut off. As the UAC nag is still a nag in better cloths.
3. The title is catchy. "Security hole UAC." So clueless types on the net are jumping all over it a linking it.
THIS IS NOT A SECURITY HOLE. IT'S I'M A MORON USER THAT IS DESPERATE TO KICK THE DOOR OPEN TO HACKERS AND I'M STILL FAILING AT IT, PROBLEM.