You mean running animations in the background on multiple pages eats CPU cycles??? Oh noes! Geez, I wonder how Jobs' little darling, HTML5, will manage to do animations without using any CPU power?
Just off the top of my head, I would imagine that browsers will be smart enough not to run HTML5 animations on pages that aren't visible to the user. That should help, right there.
I'd also imagine that with engineers at multiple companies fighting to make their browser the best, further refinements would be discovered and implemented. Adobe has had very little incentive to improve Flash since they are in a dominant position.
You are right in that a new architecture could offer improved performance, however it is a one shot deal. Once you've rolled out the new architecture there will be a short period while everything catches up and then you are right back to cramming more on the die.
Distant parts of the chip then have a communication lag, but yes, this will really help. Certainly much less lag than communicating with something outside the die.
Wouldn't that suggest that three dimensional chips be the logical next step. Although heat dissipation would become more difficult, not to mention the fact that the production process would be an order of magnitude more complicated.
Call me when price is comparable per GB to 1.5T drives. They're about $90, so when the 3T is $180, it starts to become interesting. I'd have to go to RAID 6 to fold 3Ts into my array of 1.5Ts though.
Of course by the time these 3TB drives are priced at $180 the 1.5TB drives will be down to $65, and when the 3TB drives match that at $130 the 1.5TB will be down to $55. I'd imagine that the 3TB will not offer more "bang for your buck" until they drop to approx. $100 (or in other words a little more then the current optimum priced drives).
It's not nearly as complicated as it seems, "fjalla" means mountain and "jokull" glacier so a native would read it more like "the glacier of the mountain Eyja" or "Eyja Mountain Glacier". But like the Scandinavian and German language they build one long word out of it.
It is even simpler than that as Eyja means island (err, since Iceland is spelled Island in Icelandic maybe that isn't a simplification). It is a reference to the nearby Vestmann Islands, that lie just off the coast from where the glacier is.
Of course, if they try to use libel as a reason to take this down and then later when ACTA documents are published that proves to be a lie, they will have perjured themselves. So that route isn't really feasible unless these documents are in fact fake (or sufficiently obsolete that the eventual ACTA documents will bear only a passing resemblance).
In any case it will be interesting to see what measures (if any) are taken against this publication.
Recent polls show that most people regard Internet access as a fundamental right and considering how important Internet access has become that is very understandable.
Thus any three-strikes law would likely be in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights and be struck down by the European Court of Human Rights.
Given that it makes sense for MEP to oppose three-strikes provisions as they can not be certain of implementing them and could potentially suffer very negative fallout for trying.
The funny thing, what we consider junk today sometimes - mind you, only sometimes - turns out to be really interesting a few generations down the line.
Case in point, advertising leaflets from the early part of the 20th century were undoubtedly not held in high regard at the time. Today however researchers regard them as a useful source of information that was not captured in other media at the time, usually because it was something "everyone knew".
The point is that we are ill equipped today to judge what will be "valuable" tomorrow.
I'm about 135 pounds. Why the fuck do I get charged extra if my bag is 55 pounds, when the fat bastard behind me has 150 pounds on me, and his bag is slightly less?
Because the "fat bastard" can haul his own carcass on the flight unassisted, while some poor baggage handler has to lug your overweight bag into the plane's cargo hold.
Also, any space in the cargo hold not used for passenger baggage can be sold for freight. Unused space in the cabin is just unused.
If someone sued me for libel in the UK I wouldn't bother responding -- I've never been there and don't plan on going, so there's really not much their government can do short of trying to get me extradited (seems unlikely for a civil case). As far as the "peasants" are concerned, unless those peasants need to do business in Iceland it probably won't affect them.
And you'll never EVER visit the UK? Not even for a flight connection via Heathrow (the largest international airport in the world).
Well, even then you may find that the damages awarded against you in a UK court are actionable in many countries thanks to various treaties. In fact some US states have put in place legislation to prevent those damages being claimed there. Iceland has been considering similar laws after a couple of high profile defamation suits were brought in the UK for comments made in Icelandic and translated (by others) into English.
Have a 30 year old watch Star Wars for the first time and, on the few times I've been able to find someone who has never seen it, gotten the same 'meh' response I had to the Phantom Menace.
Anyone who hasn't seen Star Wars by the time they turn 30 are not going to enjoy it. Not because it doesn't appeal to 30 year olds, but because if that person was likely to enjoy fantasy/sci-fi movies he or she would have watched the movie a long time ago. It's not like the Star Wars movies are a well kept secret.
Back in 1977 there were literally millions of 30+ year olds queuing up to see the movie (and enjoying it!).
The thing is, the original Star Wars was a movie for all ages. Episode One (in particular) was a kids movie with little regard for the kids' parents.
The largest supermarket chain here rents most DVD's for $1.
Not everywhere. To rent a first run movie is about $8 AUD overnight for me, and I have to walk to the video library where it might be out. An older movie is $5 AUD for one week.
I'm sure that is correct. I'm also (reasonably) sure that this will only be available within the US.
Last time I checked, open source just means that the source is available. There's no requirement that they accept external contributions. If you want to contribute, fork it and go from there.
In what world is that "contributing"?
Should read:
If you want to waste your time, fork it and go from there.
b) You can buy other music with that same money. There's no reason why you can't get similar satisfaction from a different song.
Maybe you can, but for me - at least - songs are not easily interchangeable.
When I go to bakery that bakes their own breads, I know going into it that I'm not going to be able to find that exact same bread anywhere else. Yet, for some reason, they don't charge $100 per loaf.
Even if it isn't the exact same bread (which is impossible) it could be made from the same recipe and the difference between the bakeries may be no greater than the differences between batches produced at the same bakery on different days. They are interchangeable!
Sure, there are different types of bread, but you'll be hard pressed to find a type that is sold by only one bakery. Even then it is only going to be either a) mild variation on a more common recipe or b) targeted at a small niche of the market.
With music none of this applies. A specific song is in effect a monopoly and no simple substitutes exist. (Well, with the possible exception of the overly generic 'pop' that is being produced and shoveled out, but that is a whole other story).
Or 3) realize that they have a product with high development cost but very low per-unit cost.
The simple fact is that games (especially on consoles) are overpriced. I've had a PS3 for almost a year now and I've only bought 1 game (and been given or borrowed another 3-4). I do enjoy playing but the prices are so outrageous that I'm not going to buy any game unless I'm sure I'll like it, which is very rare. If the prices were slashed in half, I'd buy at least 3 or 4 games a year.
You are right of course but there is an easy fix. The 'receipt' should not contain your name, only your vote(s). Once you've read it over and verified that it was the same as you entered into the computer you deposit the receipt in an old fashioned ballot box before leaving. If the electronic vote is later deemed suspect these receipts can be tallied instead.
An interesting thing about launch costs: If there was a band of solid gold circling the earth, at a height where the space shuttle can go and get 50 tons of it at a time and bring it back down, it won't be worth it.
Of course if there was gold up there in any significant quantity and easy to access once in orbit it is a good bet that we would _develop_ the ability to fetch it at a profit.
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You mean running animations in the background on multiple pages eats CPU cycles??? Oh noes! Geez, I wonder how Jobs' little darling, HTML5, will manage to do animations without using any CPU power?
Just off the top of my head, I would imagine that browsers will be smart enough not to run HTML5 animations on pages that aren't visible to the user. That should help, right there.
I'd also imagine that with engineers at multiple companies fighting to make their browser the best, further refinements would be discovered and implemented. Adobe has had very little incentive to improve Flash since they are in a dominant position.
You are right in that a new architecture could offer improved performance, however it is a one shot deal. Once you've rolled out the new architecture there will be a short period while everything catches up and then you are right back to cramming more on the die.
Distant parts of the chip then have a communication lag, but yes, this will really help. Certainly much less lag than communicating with something outside the die.
Wouldn't that suggest that three dimensional chips be the logical next step. Although heat dissipation would become more difficult, not to mention the fact that the production process would be an order of magnitude more complicated.
Call me when price is comparable per GB to 1.5T drives. They're about $90, so when the 3T is $180, it starts to become interesting. I'd have to go to RAID 6 to fold 3Ts into my array of 1.5Ts though.
Of course by the time these 3TB drives are priced at $180 the 1.5TB drives will be down to $65, and when the 3TB drives match that at $130 the 1.5TB will be down to $55. I'd imagine that the 3TB will not offer more "bang for your buck" until they drop to approx. $100 (or in other words a little more then the current optimum priced drives).
... unless it's government backed with your tax dollars.
As opposed to being backed with private capital raised by selling me pharmaceuticals. One way or another, "we" are paying for this.
It's not nearly as complicated as it seems, "fjalla" means mountain and "jokull" glacier so a native would read it more like "the glacier of the mountain Eyja" or "Eyja Mountain Glacier". But like the Scandinavian and German language they build one long word out of it.
It is even simpler than that as Eyja means island (err, since Iceland is spelled Island in Icelandic maybe that isn't a simplification). It is a reference to the nearby Vestmann Islands, that lie just off the coast from where the glacier is.
So Eyjafjallajökull -> Islands Mountain Glacier.
Of course, if they try to use libel as a reason to take this down and then later when ACTA documents are published that proves to be a lie, they will have perjured themselves. So that route isn't really feasible unless these documents are in fact fake (or sufficiently obsolete that the eventual ACTA documents will bear only a passing resemblance).
In any case it will be interesting to see what measures (if any) are taken against this publication.
Recent polls show that most people regard Internet access as a fundamental right and considering how important Internet access has become that is very understandable.
Thus any three-strikes law would likely be in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights and be struck down by the European Court of Human Rights.
Given that it makes sense for MEP to oppose three-strikes provisions as they can not be certain of implementing them and could potentially suffer very negative fallout for trying.
The funny thing, what we consider junk today sometimes - mind you, only sometimes - turns out to be really interesting a few generations down the line.
Case in point, advertising leaflets from the early part of the 20th century were undoubtedly not held in high regard at the time. Today however researchers regard them as a useful source of information that was not captured in other media at the time, usually because it was something "everyone knew".
The point is that we are ill equipped today to judge what will be "valuable" tomorrow.
I'm about 135 pounds. Why the fuck do I get charged extra if my bag is 55 pounds, when the fat bastard behind me has 150 pounds on me, and his bag is slightly less?
Because the "fat bastard" can haul his own carcass on the flight unassisted, while some poor baggage handler has to lug your overweight bag into the plane's cargo hold.
Also, any space in the cargo hold not used for passenger baggage can be sold for freight. Unused space in the cabin is just unused.
It is not just about the total weight.
If someone sued me for libel in the UK I wouldn't bother responding -- I've never been there and don't plan on going, so there's really not much their government can do short of trying to get me extradited (seems unlikely for a civil case). As far as the "peasants" are concerned, unless those peasants need to do business in Iceland it probably won't affect them.
And you'll never EVER visit the UK? Not even for a flight connection via Heathrow (the largest international airport in the world).
Well, even then you may find that the damages awarded against you in a UK court are actionable in many countries thanks to various treaties. In fact some US states have put in place legislation to prevent those damages being claimed there. Iceland has been considering similar laws after a couple of high profile defamation suits were brought in the UK for comments made in Icelandic and translated (by others) into English.
Have a 30 year old watch Star Wars for the first time and, on the few times I've been able to find someone who has never seen it, gotten the same 'meh' response I had to the Phantom Menace.
Anyone who hasn't seen Star Wars by the time they turn 30 are not going to enjoy it. Not because it doesn't appeal to 30 year olds, but because if that person was likely to enjoy fantasy/sci-fi movies he or she would have watched the movie a long time ago. It's not like the Star Wars movies are a well kept secret.
Back in 1977 there were literally millions of 30+ year olds queuing up to see the movie (and enjoying it!).
The thing is, the original Star Wars was a movie for all ages. Episode One (in particular) was a kids movie with little regard for the kids' parents.
The largest supermarket chain here rents most DVD's for $1.
Not everywhere. To rent a first run movie is about $8 AUD overnight for me, and I have to walk to the video library where it might be out. An older movie is $5 AUD for one week.
I'm sure that is correct. I'm also (reasonably) sure that this will only be available within the US.
You might want to take a look at JIRA.
http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira/
It is a powerful issue tracker and as long as you can live with the 10 user "starter" limit it is very cheap (10 USD).
I am in a similar situation (IT 4 persons out of 100) and JIRA has been a lifesaver.
most of those changes aren't Google-specific
Why would they submit "Google-specific" patches?
It would make sense for them to only submit those patches that they believed to be of general utility. Other stuff would likely not be accepted.
(and I don't mean 99.999999999999%) reliable.
An uptime of fourteen nines equates to less than 0.3 microseconds of downtime a year. I think I could live with that
No, this does not work under any IE, even 8. Guess we're waiting for IE 9...
And an "Under Construction" graphic with a little guy shoveling.
That is so last century. These days we put up a graphic saying "BETA"
Last time I checked, open source just means that the source is available. There's no requirement that they accept external contributions. If you want to contribute, fork it and go from there.
In what world is that "contributing"?
Should read:
If you want to waste your time, fork it and go from there.
b) You can buy other music with that same money. There's no reason why you can't get similar satisfaction from a different song.
Maybe you can, but for me - at least - songs are not easily interchangeable.
When I go to bakery that bakes their own breads, I know going into it that I'm not going to be able to find that exact same bread anywhere else. Yet, for some reason, they don't charge $100 per loaf.
Even if it isn't the exact same bread (which is impossible) it could be made from the same recipe and the difference between the bakeries may be no greater than the differences between batches produced at the same bakery on different days. They are interchangeable!
Sure, there are different types of bread, but you'll be hard pressed to find a type that is sold by only one bakery. Even then it is only going to be either a) mild variation on a more common recipe or b) targeted at a small niche of the market.
With music none of this applies. A specific song is in effect a monopoly and no simple substitutes exist. (Well, with the possible exception of the overly generic 'pop' that is being produced and shoveled out, but that is a whole other story).
Or 3) realize that they have a product with high development cost but very low per-unit cost.
The simple fact is that games (especially on consoles) are overpriced. I've had a PS3 for almost a year now and I've only bought 1 game (and been given or borrowed another 3-4). I do enjoy playing but the prices are so outrageous that I'm not going to buy any game unless I'm sure I'll like it, which is very rare. If the prices were slashed in half, I'd buy at least 3 or 4 games a year.
You are right of course but there is an easy fix. The 'receipt' should not contain your name, only your vote(s). Once you've read it over and verified that it was the same as you entered into the computer you deposit the receipt in an old fashioned ballot box before leaving. If the electronic vote is later deemed suspect these receipts can be tallied instead.
An interesting thing about launch costs:
If there was a band of solid gold circling the earth, at a height where the space shuttle can go and get 50 tons of it at a time and bring it back down, it won't be worth it.
Of course if there was gold up there in any significant quantity and easy to access once in orbit it is a good bet that we would _develop_ the ability to fetch it at a profit.
I was expecting 7 versions to justify the names?? :-)
If that's how it works, Windows 2000 must have been a huge headache :-)
There may be some great software out there that runs super fast and bug free, but I'll never know, don't want to know.
Yes, because all software written in other languages is super fast and bug free.