Video decoding may be better on a dedicated chip. A good GPU should be fine (oh wait, it's Intel...)
I guess FPGA could be used for nifty device drivers. You don't want to change the touchscreen interface very often (as an example), but if you (shudder) encounter a bug then the FPGA can be modified.
"... Firefox does not have memory management issues."
He's joking of course. Open a lot of windows and tabs, and Firefox will munch memory until it takes all the available memory, and then it will crash. Before that Firefox will be sloooow. The memory munching continues even when you aren't using your computer.
Firefox is the most unstable program in common use. The memory gobbling, CPU gobbling was reported more than 8 years ago, and still hasn't been fixed.
It's even better if you combine it with flash heavy websites.
I'm going to guess that the old supercomputer used Pentium 4s. An old Core2 system is probably still OK, but P4 systems are only good if your heaters need upgrading.
4) They never shot themselves in the foot too badly.
Microsoft made huge efforts to support horrible old formats, and horrible old software (except when they crippled Lotus, but that was much later, and it was a carefully calculated strike). Apple just broke backwards compatibility if third parties used messy hacks. Look at the calender calculations that didn't quite work, because Microsoft wanted to have the same mistakes as Lotus. Look at the crappy drivers they let third parties install.
I'm not sure if they ever said it, but Microsoft ran by the principal "Where there's muck, there's brass". That's why they won. It's also why their products let off the faint odor of effluent.
Avatar was OK, but I didn't think 3D was much better than 2D.
I loved OceanWorld 3D though.
I think 3D is good for noisy, breathtaking panoramas. I can imagine it working really well in war films (thousands of soldiers), westerns, nature shows, city-scapes, and crowd scenes. It will be noisy, and it should be noisy. But that's the antithesis of Batman.
Heavily stylized action movies? No way. If the batmobile is sitting smack-bang in the center of the screen, it *doesn't* need any help grabbing your attention. Making it jump out is only going to look cheap. In a few years time, the technology will be good enough that they can do a film like Batman without making the 3D intrusive, and it might look a little cooler, but it won't really benefit from it.
That doesn't work. Sure, if kids were treated like responsible young adults (by everyone from their parents, to the police, to teachers, to the schooling system) then they would most likely act like responsible young adults. They aren't, and they don't.
Kids don't feel the consequences of their actions in the same way adults do. If you let them fail (as you suggest), the system will just push them up to the next level, or out into the scrap heap.
Don't forget, the other talent of a CEO is to make millions of dollars that they don't deserve, which drives all the C-level (and below) execs work harder for a shot at getting such a wonderful job when the CEO retires (with a golden handshake, of course). Why pay the plebs bonuses when you can dangle a carrot *and* eat it?
Vegetable oil and lard both have very low conductivities. But then you would need a sysadmin who is SCUBA qualified AND doesn't mind swimming in oil or pig fat.
Well, forcing the economy to slow down gracefully is better than a boom, bust, and extinction. Neoclassical economists (who are theologically opposed to the concept of busts) don't like this idea. They say: "Short-term growth is good, because it gives you a higher base for future growth." But the world doesn't always work like that - as the guys who used to live on Easter Island.
The thing is, Ubuntu server isn't trying to necessarily capture the marketshare of "serious" servers because those are already well-entrenched with contracts but rather competing with offerings like Windows Home Server.
Nuh uh. Ubuntu Server is certainly marketed towards enterprises, and not just very small ones. Canonical advertises its support for virtualization, cloud computing, and integration with enterprise authentication systems. Let's look at the Ubuntu Server web page:
"Ubuntu Server mixes effortlessly with Ubuntu, Windows or Mac OS environments. All clients can share authentication, swap files and access services, while Open LDAP, Likewise-Open and PAM authentication come as standard."
Do home users care about LDAP or PAM?
Virtualise your servers with Ubuntu Server and KVM. Use a secure, lean version of Ubuntu as a guest operating system for your application and create virtual machine images in minutes. KVM, Xen, VMWare and LXC are all supported.
Do home users create applications using Ubuntu as a base to run on virtualized environments? Do home users runs servers with virtualization?
Build flexible computing environments in your own infrastructure with Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud (UEC) or deploy to Amazon EC2 using Ubuntu Server Edition images.
Do home users create their own Enterprise Cloud or deploy applications to expensive commercial hosting systems?
The book makers don't just make books. They screen them, and educate the school boards, so the schools don't waste students' time with crappy, outmoded texts.
In a similar vein, old drugs are often better then new ones (in some cases), but nobody helps practicing doctors get educated on which old drugs to prescribe. Whereas there's lots of good educational information on new (albeit expensive) ones.
I'm not sure that old-style infantry was a result of outright incompetence.
Sure, it's better to spread the troops out, and hide them behind rock walls, but only if you trust them to stick their heads out long enough to fire. That's not a problem if you have all volunteers, but colonial armies aren't staffed with volunteers. I guess modern armies have better training, so they can give their troops a bit more independence.
Another explanation - Kanji is much denser than English, but attention thresholds are similar, so they need smaller boxes to deliver bite-sized messages to the readers. Smaller boxes means more boxes, which means more clutter.
A quick search (site:.cn, site:.jp, site:.vn, site.kr, site.kh, site:.th) suggests Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese sites are sparser than sites with Kanji or Hanzi.
"The Rest Of Your Life" is like a MMORPG but it's really boring and repetitive, leveling up takes way too long, people steal the really good drops, you can never get enough gold, and there are too many n00bs.
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More correctly, it would be more like forcing toll road operators to take responsibility for preventing the use of a car in a crime.
No, it's like forcing hookers to refuse service to customers with visible signs of infection.
Sorry, but the car analogies were getting on my nerves.
It would be cooler than a Wii though; as a game controller.
That could be a good place for it to develop.
Using the FPGA as a replacement for a decent GPU would be crazier than Larrabee. Which isn't to say they won't try it ;)
Video decoding may be better on a dedicated chip. A good GPU should be fine (oh wait, it's Intel ...)
I guess FPGA could be used for nifty device drivers. You don't want to change the touchscreen interface very often (as an example), but if you (shudder) encounter a bug then the FPGA can be modified.
"... Firefox does not have memory management issues."
He's joking of course. Open a lot of windows and tabs, and Firefox will munch memory until it takes all the available memory, and then it will crash. Before that Firefox will be sloooow. The memory munching continues even when you aren't using your computer.
Firefox is the most unstable program in common use. The memory gobbling, CPU gobbling was reported more than 8 years ago, and still hasn't been fixed.
It's even better if you combine it with flash heavy websites.
I'm going to guess that the old supercomputer used Pentium 4s. An old Core2 system is probably still OK, but P4 systems are only good if your heaters need upgrading.
Mark V Shaney, is that you?
At least /. has diversified a bit, it's not from MIT.
Or their ADD forbids them from waiting for a whole damn minu
Make that Diet Coke, and Coke Zero.
4) They never shot themselves in the foot too badly.
Microsoft made huge efforts to support horrible old formats, and horrible old software (except when they crippled Lotus, but that was much later, and it was a carefully calculated strike). Apple just broke backwards compatibility if third parties used messy hacks. Look at the calender calculations that didn't quite work, because Microsoft wanted to have the same mistakes as Lotus. Look at the crappy drivers they let third parties install.
I'm not sure if they ever said it, but Microsoft ran by the principal "Where there's muck, there's brass". That's why they won. It's also why their products let off the faint odor of effluent.
Next you're going to tell me masturbation should be illegal.
Yep, that's probably next on the agenda. Especially if it's for commercial or research purposes.
Avatar was OK, but I didn't think 3D was much better than 2D.
I loved OceanWorld 3D though.
I think 3D is good for noisy, breathtaking panoramas. I can imagine it working really well in war films (thousands of soldiers), westerns, nature shows, city-scapes, and crowd scenes. It will be noisy, and it should be noisy. But that's the antithesis of Batman.
Heavily stylized action movies? No way. If the batmobile is sitting smack-bang in the center of the screen, it *doesn't* need any help grabbing your attention. Making it jump out is only going to look cheap. In a few years time, the technology will be good enough that they can do a film like Batman without making the 3D intrusive, and it might look a little cooler, but it won't really benefit from it.
That doesn't work. Sure, if kids were treated like responsible young adults (by everyone from their parents, to the police, to teachers, to the schooling system) then they would most likely act like responsible young adults. They aren't, and they don't.
Kids don't feel the consequences of their actions in the same way adults do. If you let them fail (as you suggest), the system will just push them up to the next level, or out into the scrap heap.
Don't forget, the other talent of a CEO is to make millions of dollars that they don't deserve, which drives all the C-level (and below) execs work harder for a shot at getting such a wonderful job when the CEO retires (with a golden handshake, of course). Why pay the plebs bonuses when you can dangle a carrot *and* eat it?
Vegetable oil and lard both have very low conductivities. But then you would need a sysadmin who is SCUBA qualified AND doesn't mind swimming in oil or pig fat.
Well, forcing the economy to slow down gracefully is better than a boom, bust, and extinction. Neoclassical economists (who are theologically opposed to the concept of busts) don't like this idea. They say: "Short-term growth is good, because it gives you a higher base for future growth." But the world doesn't always work like that - as the guys who used to live on Easter Island.
Nuh uh. Ubuntu Server is certainly marketed towards enterprises, and not just very small ones. Canonical advertises its support for virtualization, cloud computing, and integration with enterprise authentication systems.
Let's look at the Ubuntu Server web page:
Do home users care about LDAP or PAM?
Do home users create applications using Ubuntu as a base to run on virtualized environments? Do home users runs servers with virtualization?
Do home users create their own Enterprise Cloud or deploy applications to expensive commercial hosting systems?
Some home users on slashdot, maybe.
Marketing and sales is as important as engineering. If you want to be judgmental, sales *people* may be worth more or less, depending on the person.
Sea water is quite hostile. I wouldn't want my nuclear plant *rusting* from all the sea water, thank-you-very-much.
Which high-quality public domain books are those?
The book makers don't just make books. They screen them, and educate the school boards, so the schools don't waste students' time with crappy, outmoded texts.
In a similar vein, old drugs are often better then new ones (in some cases), but nobody helps practicing doctors get educated on which old drugs to prescribe. Whereas there's lots of good educational information on new (albeit expensive) ones.
I'm not sure that old-style infantry was a result of outright incompetence.
Sure, it's better to spread the troops out, and hide them behind rock walls, but only if you trust them to stick their heads out long enough to fire. That's not a problem if you have all volunteers, but colonial armies aren't staffed with volunteers. I guess modern armies have better training, so they can give their troops a bit more independence.
So when can someone get in trouble with the DMCA?
From the moment they're born to the end of the universe.
Hold it right there ... where did you get those chromosomes from? Are they properly licensed?
Another explanation - Kanji is much denser than English, but attention thresholds are similar, so they need smaller boxes to deliver bite-sized messages to the readers. Smaller boxes means more boxes, which means more clutter.
A quick search (site:.cn, site:.jp, site:.vn, site.kr, site.kh, site:.th) suggests Korean, Thai, and Vietnamese sites are sparser than sites with Kanji or Hanzi.
"The Rest Of Your Life" is like a MMORPG but it's really boring and repetitive, leveling up takes way too long, people steal the really good drops, you can never get enough gold, and there are too many n00bs.
If you like WoW, you'll LOVE TRoYL