The developers that succeed will be the ones that embrace the power and stop whining about having to adapt. Mediocre programmers always complain when they have to adapt where as good programmers are excited by the new possibilities. As far as I can tell programming for the Cell isn't that different from programming for any other parallel system. It's not that hard to do. It's more an issue of having to get a feel for the new system and rewrite some libraries and tools. Short-term issues.
No, AOL bought Netscape to get Netscape.com which was at the time one of the number one portals in the world and which Netscape was somehow not managing to use to their own good properly.
Look at the worldwide sales report since the 360 was released. Last I checked, the PS2 far outsold the 360. This isn't surprising because new systems are more expensive, more prone to faults, have less games available and have more trouble meeting demand. It's still a valid point though that the 360 isn't exactly stealing the Playstation market at this time and isn't likely to do so soon.
What Microsoft should do, as they do have the money to do it, is to drop the price of the 360 to less than the PS2. That would seriously wound Sony by cutting off their source of revenue and stealing their thunder all before they can release their own next gen console. It all comes down to how much Microsoft is willing to invest to beat Sony and how long they can keep anti-trust lawyers at bay.
It's a little ridiculous that Linux has so many package managers. Gentoo at least is doing something different so it makes sense to be a sepperate tool. Apt, Yum, etc are so similar that there is really no point in having alternatives anymore. Fedora is my distro of choice and I find it hard to understand why they've made yum their default tool. Even apt works better than yum. I like rug because it had a very clean user interface and worked quickly. It also had a very nice graphical frontend (Red Carpet) for people that like that sort of thing. I have to wonder when an obviously inferior product such as yum is picked over something like rug. You can time them side by side and rug is a lot faster. Yum is a little easier to use than apt (but again slower than apt) but rug doesn't make you suffer through as many oddities in it's design and it's commands are much more obvious than yum.
If there is something better in deb packages lets take that, if there is something better in rpm packages lets take that too, and make a single unified package format. Then lets apply the same process to apt, yum, rug, and whatever other package managers people are using and build a single standard the community can agree on. Package management is a well supported and very understood issue for Linux developers so there is no reason not to work things into a single standard. (Again things like Gentoo are different.) This would make life easier for all of us users, developers, etc.
Then a program like Firefox would have a standard package manager it could use on systems that supported it. Heck, make our package manager cross-platform friendly and let Firefox install it on Windows to manage their packages. No reason for Windows, Linux, OS X, etc not to all use the same package manager.
$50-$75 is my price point to buy consoles I missed when they were hot. That's what I did with the Dreamcast and is what I'll do with Xbox and Gamecube. I really don't need them but for that price I might as well throw one in my collection in case I ever want it.
I think next gen consoles don't really penetrate the market for at least a year after the first next gen hits the market so only the early adopter fan boys (or their moms) will buy them during that time. So Sony has about a year from the 360 release date to come out with their own next gen to keep from having missed the wave. As they are the biggest player and have the most powerful (even if only by a little) of the enxt gen consoles I doubt they'll have many problems. The only way they could fsck it up is by releasing something that wasn't high quality or that had no developers on board.
So you'd rather have kept on having a choice between two crappy browsers than take the time to actually create something that doesn't suck? To make a leap sometimes you have to take a step back.
The real problem was that AOL bought Netscape and they didn't understand the market or the technology. They should have kept a team working on current-gen technology to keep up the fight with IE while letting Mozilla grow in the background with another team. They certainly had the money to do it - just not the brains to do it.
I concur. (Don't we all love saying that?) I have no need for an XBox because most of it's decent games are available for PC and the games I wanted to play on it I could count on one hand anyway. The Windows PC is as much a detriment to the XBox as the Playstation.
I think the PS3 will be faster than the 360 but not a lot faster. The main point though is that the Cell processor will scale better for future consoles than future rehashes of current CPUs. This switch is an investment in the future and will not really pay off fully until the next next gen console at which point everyone else will be playing catch up.
I'll wait as long as it takes if they just put out a killer system. Last time I checked PS2's were still outselling XBox 360's so it seems to hardly matter to Sony and they could, if needed, slash the PS2 prices to keep 360 sales low.
id, If I remember, has a motto of "When it's finished." or something like that. I think Sony should follow it. Don't let M$ trick them into releasing anything less than perfect. Let M$ be the one dealing with their consoles crashing and the power supplies catching fire.
I'm less worried about people knowing what I'm doing than people controlling what I'm doing which is my main concern with the behavior of network providers. All this crap from Verizon and such lately has me looking for other solutions for the future.
If it was only a single frame here and there you could just detect and remove them I'd suppose. That'd be less detectable to the viewer than having a visible watermark in those frames (oops I paused and there is some weird text here..).
That and the problem of so many people having trouble uploading at all thanks to issues like firewalls. Bad routing algorithms have a pretty big part to do with it to. Good systems of finding a shortest route through a complex network are difficult and if you add in systems coming and going and such then it becomes really difficult. It's not impossible though and I think we don't need to be that decentralized because a large number of systems are online all the time and do keep pretty static routes. These miniture cores can speed up routing of data through their realm and can themselves be interconnected with other such cores to form a larger semi-rigid grid. You can be P2P without refusing to peer with non-home users.
I've heard of similar projects for Linux before but if they still exist I never hear anything about them. It really needs to be a well publized project if such a thing exists - otherwise people won't know about it and contribute.
This is what Linux companies should be doing. Pay developers that find an exploit in Linux a couple thousand dollars and make sure the hole gets fixed quickly. Obviously then it becomes a race for the companies to have their own employees find and fix the holes before outside developers do the same. Maybe have some lesser (since they're already getting a paycheck) bounty available to their own employees that find the holes and fix them.
As open as Linux is this kind of motivation could really bring in the eyeballs to make those holes shallow and get them patched up. Make the bounty $10,000 for critical bugs and maybe $2000 for lesser security bugs. If you get the kernel patched up then start working on libraries and then apps and by then it should be time to start looking at the kernel again.
Wouldn't it just be easier to pay different hardware makers to make OS X drivers? OS X, while not as good as Linux IMO, is a hell of a lot better than Windows and I can't see them making the bad decision of killing it off to become just another PC maker. If they were going that far I think they'd get out of the PC business altogether and focus on products like the iPod. That'd be risky though as while more profitable in the short term consumer goods are more prone to suffer at the whims of the consumer than selling a computer. A computer comes with a lot of lock-in investment where as a consumer good that's cool this week might be a lame has been product next week. In other words I think you'd be a lot more likely to see a Mac as a viable product in twenty years than the iPod.
It was my impression that the quality change was a lot more than double. They're supposed to jump to 1920x1080 aren't they? That's a significant increase that should be more than four times the size of a normal DVD I think.
I wonder how significant the changes are. Having transcoded the video will the watermarks be there still?
Maybe something as simple as a cache tuner config that let you mark apps and data you did want to persist or didn't want to persist with the rest left to the system to manage by space available?
But it's often these oddball programmer projects that end up being the next big thing. Manage your coders but don't stiffle them. I think that's the real secret to Google's success and it can be yours too. Steer them towards finishing your projects and finishing their own projects.
That's the reason for caching. It could download apps and data as needed when you connect and then remove them as they went disused and space was needed or if you were using a shared machine where you didn't want cached data to persist. It'd be a hybrid of centralized and personal that way. You'd only have to connect for apps and data that weren't cached or for apps that just required a network (online chat) or that had some special network function to intense to be done on your PC.
What? You think people with money and connections have some sort of life? Maybe if they're old money with no real job skills. I wasn't thinking of a Paris Hilton project.
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The developers that succeed will be the ones that embrace the power and stop whining about having to adapt. Mediocre programmers always complain when they have to adapt where as good programmers are excited by the new possibilities. As far as I can tell programming for the Cell isn't that different from programming for any other parallel system. It's not that hard to do. It's more an issue of having to get a feel for the new system and rewrite some libraries and tools. Short-term issues.
No, AOL bought Netscape to get Netscape.com which was at the time one of the number one portals in the world and which Netscape was somehow not managing to use to their own good properly.
Look at the worldwide sales report since the 360 was released. Last I checked, the PS2 far outsold the 360. This isn't surprising because new systems are more expensive, more prone to faults, have less games available and have more trouble meeting demand. It's still a valid point though that the 360 isn't exactly stealing the Playstation market at this time and isn't likely to do so soon.
What Microsoft should do, as they do have the money to do it, is to drop the price of the 360 to less than the PS2. That would seriously wound Sony by cutting off their source of revenue and stealing their thunder all before they can release their own next gen console. It all comes down to how much Microsoft is willing to invest to beat Sony and how long they can keep anti-trust lawyers at bay.
It's a little ridiculous that Linux has so many package managers. Gentoo at least is doing something different so it makes sense to be a sepperate tool. Apt, Yum, etc are so similar that there is really no point in having alternatives anymore. Fedora is my distro of choice and I find it hard to understand why they've made yum their default tool. Even apt works better than yum. I like rug because it had a very clean user interface and worked quickly. It also had a very nice graphical frontend (Red Carpet) for people that like that sort of thing. I have to wonder when an obviously inferior product such as yum is picked over something like rug. You can time them side by side and rug is a lot faster. Yum is a little easier to use than apt (but again slower than apt) but rug doesn't make you suffer through as many oddities in it's design and it's commands are much more obvious than yum.
If there is something better in deb packages lets take that, if there is something better in rpm packages lets take that too, and make a single unified package format. Then lets apply the same process to apt, yum, rug, and whatever other package managers people are using and build a single standard the community can agree on. Package management is a well supported and very understood issue for Linux developers so there is no reason not to work things into a single standard. (Again things like Gentoo are different.) This would make life easier for all of us users, developers, etc.
Then a program like Firefox would have a standard package manager it could use on systems that supported it. Heck, make our package manager cross-platform friendly and let Firefox install it on Windows to manage their packages. No reason for Windows, Linux, OS X, etc not to all use the same package manager.
$50-$75 is my price point to buy consoles I missed when they were hot. That's what I did with the Dreamcast and is what I'll do with Xbox and Gamecube. I really don't need them but for that price I might as well throw one in my collection in case I ever want it.
I think next gen consoles don't really penetrate the market for at least a year after the first next gen hits the market so only the early adopter fan boys (or their moms) will buy them during that time. So Sony has about a year from the 360 release date to come out with their own next gen to keep from having missed the wave. As they are the biggest player and have the most powerful (even if only by a little) of the enxt gen consoles I doubt they'll have many problems. The only way they could fsck it up is by releasing something that wasn't high quality or that had no developers on board.
So you'd rather have kept on having a choice between two crappy browsers than take the time to actually create something that doesn't suck? To make a leap sometimes you have to take a step back.
The real problem was that AOL bought Netscape and they didn't understand the market or the technology. They should have kept a team working on current-gen technology to keep up the fight with IE while letting Mozilla grow in the background with another team. They certainly had the money to do it - just not the brains to do it.
I concur. (Don't we all love saying that?) I have no need for an XBox because most of it's decent games are available for PC and the games I wanted to play on it I could count on one hand anyway. The Windows PC is as much a detriment to the XBox as the Playstation.
I think the PS3 will be faster than the 360 but not a lot faster. The main point though is that the Cell processor will scale better for future consoles than future rehashes of current CPUs. This switch is an investment in the future and will not really pay off fully until the next next gen console at which point everyone else will be playing catch up.
I'll wait as long as it takes if they just put out a killer system. Last time I checked PS2's were still outselling XBox 360's so it seems to hardly matter to Sony and they could, if needed, slash the PS2 prices to keep 360 sales low.
id, If I remember, has a motto of "When it's finished." or something like that. I think Sony should follow it. Don't let M$ trick them into releasing anything less than perfect. Let M$ be the one dealing with their consoles crashing and the power supplies catching fire.
I'm less worried about people knowing what I'm doing than people controlling what I'm doing which is my main concern with the behavior of network providers. All this crap from Verizon and such lately has me looking for other solutions for the future.
If it was only a single frame here and there you could just detect and remove them I'd suppose. That'd be less detectable to the viewer than having a visible watermark in those frames (oops I paused and there is some weird text here..).
That and the problem of so many people having trouble uploading at all thanks to issues like firewalls. Bad routing algorithms have a pretty big part to do with it to. Good systems of finding a shortest route through a complex network are difficult and if you add in systems coming and going and such then it becomes really difficult. It's not impossible though and I think we don't need to be that decentralized because a large number of systems are online all the time and do keep pretty static routes. These miniture cores can speed up routing of data through their realm and can themselves be interconnected with other such cores to form a larger semi-rigid grid. You can be P2P without refusing to peer with non-home users.
I've heard of similar projects for Linux before but if they still exist I never hear anything about them. It really needs to be a well publized project if such a thing exists - otherwise people won't know about it and contribute.
This is what Linux companies should be doing. Pay developers that find an exploit in Linux a couple thousand dollars and make sure the hole gets fixed quickly. Obviously then it becomes a race for the companies to have their own employees find and fix the holes before outside developers do the same. Maybe have some lesser (since they're already getting a paycheck) bounty available to their own employees that find the holes and fix them.
As open as Linux is this kind of motivation could really bring in the eyeballs to make those holes shallow and get them patched up. Make the bounty $10,000 for critical bugs and maybe $2000 for lesser security bugs. If you get the kernel patched up then start working on libraries and then apps and by then it should be time to start looking at the kernel again.
Amelio sucked. I don't think Steve Jobs is that stupid.
Wouldn't it just be easier to pay different hardware makers to make OS X drivers? OS X, while not as good as Linux IMO, is a hell of a lot better than Windows and I can't see them making the bad decision of killing it off to become just another PC maker. If they were going that far I think they'd get out of the PC business altogether and focus on products like the iPod. That'd be risky though as while more profitable in the short term consumer goods are more prone to suffer at the whims of the consumer than selling a computer. A computer comes with a lot of lock-in investment where as a consumer good that's cool this week might be a lame has been product next week. In other words I think you'd be a lot more likely to see a Mac as a viable product in twenty years than the iPod.
It was my impression that the quality change was a lot more than double. They're supposed to jump to 1920x1080 aren't they? That's a significant increase that should be more than four times the size of a normal DVD I think.
I wonder how significant the changes are. Having transcoded the video will the watermarks be there still?
That seems as if it'd make them waste a lot of space on the discs.
Use a real OS like Linux or FreeBSD. ;)
You can have your own server y'know. ;)
It's about the same as the difference between Gopher and the web.
Maybe something as simple as a cache tuner config that let you mark apps and data you did want to persist or didn't want to persist with the rest left to the system to manage by space available?
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But it's often these oddball programmer projects that end up being the next big thing. Manage your coders but don't stiffle them. I think that's the real secret to Google's success and it can be yours too. Steer them towards finishing your projects and finishing their own projects.
That's the reason for caching. It could download apps and data as needed when you connect and then remove them as they went disused and space was needed or if you were using a shared machine where you didn't want cached data to persist. It'd be a hybrid of centralized and personal that way. You'd only have to connect for apps and data that weren't cached or for apps that just required a network (online chat) or that had some special network function to intense to be done on your PC.
What? You think people with money and connections have some sort of life? Maybe if they're old money with no real job skills. I wasn't thinking of a Paris Hilton project.