You ARE paying a price, though it's not a monetary one. You are running the risk of running some pirated game that may infest your machine(s) in unpredictable ways, such as installing a keylogger or other shit like that.
I fully agree with you on the AI part. It seems that some, if not most, of our difficulties in designing realistic, psychologically and neurologically plausible systems reside in small address spaces. It is quite possible that the address space of the brain is something like 2^128. That is NOT COUNTING its sparseness... then things could go as crazy as 2^1000 or even more, as some people have been proposing. Such huge addresses could never exist physically, of course, but if the brain is a sparse address space, the "most similar/closest nodes" could fulfill that without any hiccups.
I have no idea what you mean by faster memories, though. I think killer apps will need something like 16GB or more to run smoothly. The first killer app that needs this will define the winning 64-bit platform in the long run.
This is basically Linux's only chance. As we move on to 64-bitters, Vista, osX, and Linux will compete on a different landscape. The problem, and opportunity, is that THERE ARE NO 64-bit KILLER apps out there. No OS has a single killer app that needs 64-bit computing. SO I think Eric Raymond is wrong about the hard deadline being in 2008. As long as there is no killer app, all architectures are fair play.
Obviously, if the killer app is open source and is born in Linuxland, it will be ported...
They will turn the company over to a big-name, high-priced CEO and the company will live or die based on the ability of the board to select the right person (random chance).
I may be very dumb but how do you download Chrome from the Chrome download page using Firefox 3.05 on (cough) windows xp? I only get a blue box with two non clickable text lines saying 'for windows vista/xp sp2' Something wrong with some weird setting on my pc?
You don't have any experience only if you don't want to. You can code for the iPhone and Android and facebook and opensocial and adobe air, all of which are hot markets. As some habitats contract, other expand.
I'm sorry but honestly why do I care what happens to this village in China? They aren't innocent victums, they willingly bring the toxic crap in and have their citizens work on it. As soon as they want to they can stop taking shipments when they feel the health risks are too great... Until they do that, why should I feel bad for problems they have brought on themselves?
I'm sorry but honestly why do I care what happens to some village in Afghanistan? They aren't innocent victims, they willingly beat their women and their citizens. As soon as they want to they can start developing infrastructure and educating themselves when they feel that our wealth/power disparity is too great... Until they do that, why should I feel bad for problems they have brought on themselves?
It's not like they could get mad at you or anything; and even if they did, it's not like they could do anything to hurt you anyway.
(i) making a netbook (instead of letting the mainstream people, after the hackers, build their own $350 mac).
(ii) making a tablet ( a large ipod touch) that loads of people are begging for
(iii) opening up the app store (like the android market)
(iv) opening up the iphone (letting some function calls to the dark areas, like android again)
(v) if iTunes has been liberated from DRM, then why AACs, and not MP3s? Because the patent for MP3s dies this year, 2009?
I could go on forever. I have lots of macs, and lots of pcs. Macs are great, but I see them only as a well-designed, necessary evil on the way to Linux. Linux is not on everyone's desk not because of lack of apps, but because of a lack of ONE KILLER APP. Whenever it comes, people will come.
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You ARE paying a price, though it's not a monetary one. You are running the risk of running some pirated game that may infest your machine(s) in unpredictable ways, such as installing a keylogger or other shit like that.
Oh, I see YOU are Brazilian, and working in AI. Same here. Ever stop by in Rio, send me a message. Cheers!
I fully agree with you on the AI part. It seems that some, if not most, of our difficulties in designing realistic, psychologically and neurologically plausible systems reside in small address spaces. It is quite possible that the address space of the brain is something like 2^128. That is NOT COUNTING its sparseness... then things could go as crazy as 2^1000 or even more, as some people have been proposing. Such huge addresses could never exist physically, of course, but if the brain is a sparse address space, the "most similar/closest nodes" could fulfill that without any hiccups. I have no idea what you mean by faster memories, though. I think killer apps will need something like 16GB or more to run smoothly. The first killer app that needs this will define the winning 64-bit platform in the long run.
that's what she said
This is basically Linux's only chance. As we move on to 64-bitters, Vista, osX, and Linux will compete on a different landscape. The problem, and opportunity, is that THERE ARE NO 64-bit KILLER apps out there. No OS has a single killer app that needs 64-bit computing. SO I think Eric Raymond is wrong about the hard deadline being in 2008. As long as there is no killer app, all architectures are fair play.
Obviously, if the killer app is open source and is born in Linuxland, it will be ported...
All I see is **********. Maybe someone else could post their password so we can check it.
You have a good idea there. Please, moderators, post paypal.com passwords so that we can check them for your full safety from internet pirates.
you don't see the space there?
You are absolutely correct. My first computer had a processor that ran just under 1 MHz and it booted up in maybe 2 or 3 seconds.
After that you typed win and waited for 8 minutes.
meh, I type my 10+ character password (containing lowercase, uppercase, and numbers) so often that it takes less than 2 seconds.
IDIOT! Now everyone knows your passwd is Ubuntu904
They will turn the company over to a big-name, high-priced CEO and the company will live or die based on the ability of the board to select the right person (random chance).
Yeah; bring on the pepsi cola guys!!!!
Yeah, right. But the battery is up to no good, and can't even be exchanged.
can anybody imagine Steve Jobs with long hair and a serious beard? I can't.
You don't need to imagine that at all.
That's justifiable homicide, as far as I am concerned.
Indeed. I am judge, and I hereby set you free.
There are no ugly women if your benchmark is Ubuntu.
It's not ugly if your benchmark is Ubuntu.
I may be very dumb but how do you download Chrome from the Chrome download page using Firefox 3.05 on (cough) windows xp? I only get a blue box with two non clickable text lines saying 'for windows vista/xp sp2' Something wrong with some weird setting on my pc?
Yes.
You are, indeed, very dumb.
You don't have any experience only if you don't want to. You can code for the iPhone and Android and facebook and opensocial and adobe air, all of which are hot markets. As some habitats contract, other expand.
Look the other way, my dearest troll: Why should the Chinese care if the toys you bought yourself are poisoning your kids?
I think you should take at look at this other discussion first.
I'm sorry but honestly why do I care what happens to this village in China? They aren't innocent victums, they willingly bring the toxic crap in and have their citizens work on it. As soon as they want to they can stop taking shipments when they feel the health risks are too great... Until they do that, why should I feel bad for problems they have brought on themselves?
I'm sorry but honestly why do I care what happens to some village in Afghanistan? They aren't innocent victims, they willingly beat their women and their citizens. As soon as they want to they can start developing infrastructure and educating themselves when they feel that our wealth/power disparity is too great... Until they do that, why should I feel bad for problems they have brought on themselves?
It's not like they could get mad at you or anything; and even if they did, it's not like they could do anything to hurt you anyway.
is that you, Goatse?
I love analogies
So does Douglas Hofstadter
WTF? Ubuntu is NOT good looking! Oh wait...
Like:
(i) making a netbook (instead of letting the mainstream people, after the hackers, build their own $350 mac).
(ii) making a tablet ( a large ipod touch) that loads of people are begging for
(iii) opening up the app store (like the android market)
(iv) opening up the iphone (letting some function calls to the dark areas, like android again)
(v) if iTunes has been liberated from DRM, then why AACs, and not MP3s? Because the patent for MP3s dies this year, 2009?
I could go on forever. I have lots of macs, and lots of pcs. Macs are great, but I see them only as a well-designed, necessary evil on the way to Linux. Linux is not on everyone's desk not because of lack of apps, but because of a lack of ONE KILLER APP. Whenever it comes, people will come.
You must be new here!
ARS' Nokia fanboyism never fails to amaze.