You had to ask this question? Does Nordstrom have to advertise for The Bon Marche? How about Nike advertising for Reebok or Adidas? Mother gave me great advice as a kid, ``Think before you speak.'' In this case, ``Think before your write.''
You're not real bright are you, about Silicon Valley. There are tens of thousands of jobs all over the place, but yet this expert in various systems can't get a job due to the asinine ageism of SV mainly from all the arrogant and myopic 20 somethings who think they have vision and skills superior to their forbears and think brilliant, competent and deeply knowledge'd professionals are in their 20s and thus make them the next Facebook. They aren't and never have been. The reason Facebook took off was the massive infusion of 3rd party cash and personnel [behind the scenes] who have decades of experience to steer the ship.
I'd suggest the gentleman stay clear of an MBA and if he doesn't have an Engineering degree to go get one while applying his vast knowledge in software at one of the many local universities in the Bay Area. How come? He could become a Professor's greatest asset. He can network within the university and find more contract work while getting his degree. In five years the last path you will find recommended to any engineer is to get an MBA and to get more technical degrees that can leverage their broadening and deep pool of experience. This person is 8 years older than myself and if I were still at Apple I'd have interviewed him for his vast experience long before I'd waste my time on a new graduate.
I'd utilize his knowledge of OS products to market and his vast array of skills honed through peer networking to both our mutual benefit. If you think Apple reinvented itself with 20 something geeks you're nuts. The average age of an employee at NeXT was over 30 and the key positions during the merger were over 40. Today's youth is making all the mistakes the prior generation never did--ignoring the best resources right in front of them.
Lennart's an idiot then. Apple [NeXT augmented BSD from 4.3 onward to work with the Mach Microkernel from NeXT and alter the XNU kernel at Apple]. Lennart can work himself to the bone trying to mimic OS X, but he'll need billions in resources and thousands of quality engineers to pull it off. And to call FreeBSD from Debian a toy insults everyone within the Debian Infrastructure and all it's many users, myself included who wouldn't touch Linux if it weren't for Debian. And now, I'll add FreeBSD next to OS X, Openstep and Debian Linux to the list.
You can even recompile your Mach+BSD kernel and install it on your Mac or hackintosh.
Since Apple has also rejected GPLv3, they are moving away from all things GNU in their user space as well. That means they've contributed heavily to LLVM and clang to replace GCC, also under the BSD license and written an entire new libc/c++ which they've also open-sourced. They've probably done more for BSD-licensed OS work than anyone in the world at this point.
I'm not entirely sure why they get a reputation for being closed. It's true Darwin as a separately-installable distro never caught on and they ended the project, but they're very open and permissive about their core OS development.
First of all, all major architects of LLVM work for Apple. Secondly, Apple created Clang, LLDB and Libc++ for the LLVM Project, not to mention much more that is coming along. Not to nitpick but the point is LLVM would be as prevalent as GNU Hurd if it weren't for Apple taking over the vast majority of resource expenditures and bulk of the work. It is basically Apple's LLVM/Clang replacement to GCC for anyone to use who can't f'n stand GPL. I'm glad they finally did it. With 10.7 and iOS 5 GCC is done within Apple's own solutions, though GCC is available through MacPorts for anything newer than GCC 4.2, but officially no longer supported. Besides, Blender, Inkscape, Qt, Boost, the Linux Kernel, and several other projects are testing against LLVM/Clang to build themselves to have another compiler solution and less dependency upon GCC.
AMD did a lot with finfets, so I wouldn't expect the transistor structure to be a problem... but they're completely fucked with patterning until EUV hits. Intel has chromeless pixelized masks pretty much on lock down patent wise and it's a huge advantage.
You do realize that it's not just AMD but IBM that co-developed much with AMD, right? If you think Intel has it all locked down you better spend a few hundred hours reading up on IBM patents.
Do yourself a favor and visit GlobalFoundries latest news information. They are soon to be exploding and already have customers spoken for all but the new plant in New York that will be targeting the 22nm and below needs at 300mm wafer size.
The man who is the father of the Mach Microkernel and one of the key engineers at NeXT is no where mentioned concerning the Mach Microkernel history on the Hurd's web site. Truly shows no respect towards history. You'd think Rashid was Linus Torvalds and the sole creator of Mach. Not even close.
Replace accelerometer with "sensor device" and you've got it. What Apple did was take something simple and made it more complex... and this makes it patentable? The switch on rotate is a sensor just as an accelerometer is. Get over yourself.
The 6 degrees of Freedom Accelerometer sensors that flip either a 2D or 3D View from Portrait to Landscape of a portable device is new as it rotates, translates, and tilts seamlessly with the human interaction and it's own 6 degrees of freedom. The Kinematics and Dynamics in this implementation is no way in hell something previously done, let alone in this form factor.
I love the fact that you could have said "I'm just trying to figure out why he wants to violate the KISS methodology" in fewer words such as "Why is he trying to complicate things?". Twit.
Anyway, he's not. The design process might be more complex; but be sure it will lead to a simple, elegant solution; and not more complex. It has to be cheap to produce and easy to maintain; while being just as sanitary and using less water than the current (pretty complex) flushing toilet. For example, a method for digging deeper dunny holes might be one solution.
``Things'' doesn't improve matters. To be more concise I would have said, ``What happened to KISS?''
While Apple has done a lot of innovation in the previous years, it seems now they started to lose the innovation battle.
Since they can't innovate in tech anymore they're probably thinking they should try to innovate in the legal area... let's see how will the Apple fans digest that thought...
Thanks for the laugh. Apple has the most lawsuits filed against it in the entire Industry. It's not because it's running around filing frivolous lawsuits. It's because it's innovating and people see it making massive inroads into areas once controlled by other players. With the heavy investment in R&D being so efficient at Apple resulting in a massive increase in Apple Patents they are required to defend them or lose them.
They do a ton of research, most of which never materializes into innovations in goods and services. They would be one of the least efficient R&D arms amongst the big players.
What's the reason? To offload the heavy lifting to the GPGPU so you can leverage all that OpenCL provides to the compiled native executable can only aid in the myriad of Javascript coding that currently bombards the CPU that could easily be passed onto the idle GPU(s).
Honestly, and I hate to do this since I haven't agreed to a damned thing they have done since the sweaty monkey took over, I think MSFT may be right on BOTH WebGL and OpenCL when it comes to security and here is why:
What is the most buggy driver on the average Windows system? Why that would be the graphics driver. Which driver is the LEAST likely to be updated? Again that would be the graphics driver. Which piece of hardware gets the least security checks because it would slow it down? Which piece of hardware thanks to the unified driver arch can take down tens of thousands of machines with a single buffer overflow? I think you get the idea.
ActiveX was a seriously Forest Gump level of stupid and this? Right up there alongside it. This is an idea which will have little to NO benefit for end users, increased risks of infection, and for what? So some browser can go wobbly windows like the average Linux distro? Yeah that's worth the huge increased risk.
Thanks to DXVA and H.26x support on even the low end GPUs released today there is already a trivial way to accelerate video. All this will do is give Windows and Linux users something in common, a nice single target for malware writers. It is a DUMB idea, greatly increases risk for the end users and for what? So you can run a game in a browser? The Asian MMOs have been doing that for ages by having plug ins and a mix of native and web code, and frankly the security there isn't very great there either.
So if someone can explain how having a device with a super fast CPU of its own, at least 256Mb of super fast RAM of its own, and with the most buggy and least likely to be updated drivers access to running untested or vetted third party code off the net I'm listening. Oh and with today's firmware it would probably be pretty trivial to flash in a loader that makes sure the payload is loaded upon startup. Nice for the malware writers, not really seeing a point for my end users here.
Bull shit. That's it. Pure Bull shit. The iframe is sandboxed in WebKit. Canvas is sandboxed in WebKit. How the hell do you cite WebGL and OpenCL and somehow fail to mention OpenGL? Utter bull shit. I could careless about Windows. This concerns OS X, iOS, Linux, Android and others. Enjoy DirectX11 and it's competitors to OpenCL, WebGL and WebCL. They will lose.
The Javascript code isn't doing the rendering of text. It uses dynamically loaded fonts and lets the platform's own font renderer render the glyphs. The Javascript code isn't pushing pixels.
There's less need for PDF than there used to be, now that you can download fonts in the browser. It might be worthwhile to take this PDF viewer and turn it into a server-side PDF to HTML translator.
OS X is Display PDF and 10.7 is OpenGL 3.2 system-wide. PDF is extremely lightweight on OS X.
Happens all the time. Now that I am dealing with a number of patents issued in the last decade, I have found that many of the USPTO ppl were foreigners working here (mostly chinese). I have already come across 6 patents issued over the last 7 years that have prior art (this is for PHYSICAL items, not software).
Basically, USPTO was gutted under W. It needs to be revamped and restore to what happened to it.
Aren't you glad you made crap up about the citizenship of employees at the USPTO? It sure makes your hyperbolic rhetoric all the smaller.
that's a laugh, the situation only got worse after Democrats in control, and Obama is even worse than Bush in any and every way when it comes to being a corporate bitch, taking away our rights, building a police state. I was hoping Obama would have at least done some good, but he is an evil lying corrupt SOB.
Your brain rot is only overshadowed by your bigotry.
I'm assuming you're not from the U.S. A "race" here is referring to the election and not the ethnicity of the person or person(s) involved. The literal translation in this sense in "contest"... i.e. the "race" to the finish line. You'll notice that there's a "race" lookup table which contains Sheriff, Councilman, etc. It's referring to those "contests", not black, white, asian, latino, etc.
You don't have to be from the USA to have enough brains to scan the table headers and figure out that race doesn't pertain to ethnicity. That reminds me of people reading into headlines and jumping to conclusions when if they read the context of an article they should be pissed off at how misleading the article title is as bait for you to read the story.
For instance, photo ID requirements, a mere annoyance for middle-class white folks with a driver's license, are an insurmountable burden for members of the underclass that survive on public housing and food assistance.
Pray, do tell, how people that are able to sign up and live off of the public dole, then become too stupid (or otherwise unable) to get a FREE photo ID. Make the photo ID part of the requirement to use these benefits, and you'll cut down on foodstamp fraud too. This whole idea about poor people unable to get ID (which can be verified) is a disingenuous strawman arguement. "insurmountable burden", my ass - just another reason to perpetuate voter fraud!
Don't know which state you come from but a Personal ID is not FREE. It's $20 in Washington State. The Driver's License ranges from $25 to $50. Then of course you need proof of identity which requires a Notary Public Stamped Birth Certificate [another $25+ for the Notary Public stamp, and additional fee for the Birth Certificate at the Court House, plus you need to make sure your SS Card is on you to get the Birth Certificate. If you don't you have to go and have that, but if you are a homeless person I doubt you have much proof]. With 40% of the US in poverty that's one helluva a lot of disenfranchised voters. To answer your first statement, most people aren't signed up living off the public dole. The one's living off of their own invested Unemployment Insurance don't need a card. There are millions of homeless people who aren't on Welfare.
They have been given authority by several Congressional Laws throughout several decades. Stop thinking this is June 21, 1788 and we just ratified the US Constitution. Protections have been slowly disintegrating shortly after the last remnant of the Founding Fathers were in power and had pull to protect them. Stop voting in Evangelical Fundamentalists and you'll see how much push back Congress will actually do to keep a checks n' balance with the FBI. Stop sitting around ignoring all the Militia nut jobs around and take them more seriously because the FBI certainly does and must to keep even your ass from being threatened. The blade cuts both ways.
Having been since the days at NeXT when Steve's presentations became legendary the guy behind his presentations is Steve Jobs, himself. He's meticulous about preparing for his next Keynote [even after all these years] and orchestrates how it will work with everyone so they just work.
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You had to ask this question? Does Nordstrom have to advertise for The Bon Marche? How about Nike advertising for Reebok or Adidas? Mother gave me great advice as a kid, ``Think before you speak.'' In this case, ``Think before your write.''
You're not real bright are you, about Silicon Valley. There are tens of thousands of jobs all over the place, but yet this expert in various systems can't get a job due to the asinine ageism of SV mainly from all the arrogant and myopic 20 somethings who think they have vision and skills superior to their forbears and think brilliant, competent and deeply knowledge'd professionals are in their 20s and thus make them the next Facebook. They aren't and never have been. The reason Facebook took off was the massive infusion of 3rd party cash and personnel [behind the scenes] who have decades of experience to steer the ship.
I'd suggest the gentleman stay clear of an MBA and if he doesn't have an Engineering degree to go get one while applying his vast knowledge in software at one of the many local universities in the Bay Area. How come? He could become a Professor's greatest asset. He can network within the university and find more contract work while getting his degree. In five years the last path you will find recommended to any engineer is to get an MBA and to get more technical degrees that can leverage their broadening and deep pool of experience. This person is 8 years older than myself and if I were still at Apple I'd have interviewed him for his vast experience long before I'd waste my time on a new graduate.
I'd utilize his knowledge of OS products to market and his vast array of skills honed through peer networking to both our mutual benefit. If you think Apple reinvented itself with 20 something geeks you're nuts. The average age of an employee at NeXT was over 30 and the key positions during the merger were over 40. Today's youth is making all the mistakes the prior generation never did--ignoring the best resources right in front of them.
Lennart's an idiot then. Apple [NeXT augmented BSD from 4.3 onward to work with the Mach Microkernel from NeXT and alter the XNU kernel at Apple]. Lennart can work himself to the bone trying to mimic OS X, but he'll need billions in resources and thousands of quality engineers to pull it off. And to call FreeBSD from Debian a toy insults everyone within the Debian Infrastructure and all it's many users, myself included who wouldn't touch Linux if it weren't for Debian. And now, I'll add FreeBSD next to OS X, Openstep and Debian Linux to the list.
http://www.opensource.apple.com/release/mac-os-x-1068/
You can even recompile your Mach+BSD kernel and install it on your Mac or hackintosh.
Since Apple has also rejected GPLv3, they are moving away from all things GNU in their user space as well. That means they've contributed heavily to LLVM and clang to replace GCC, also under the BSD license and written an entire new libc/c++ which they've also open-sourced. They've probably done more for BSD-licensed OS work than anyone in the world at this point.
I'm not entirely sure why they get a reputation for being closed. It's true Darwin as a separately-installable distro never caught on and they ended the project, but they're very open and permissive about their core OS development.
First of all, all major architects of LLVM work for Apple. Secondly, Apple created Clang, LLDB and Libc++ for the LLVM Project, not to mention much more that is coming along. Not to nitpick but the point is LLVM would be as prevalent as GNU Hurd if it weren't for Apple taking over the vast majority of resource expenditures and bulk of the work. It is basically Apple's LLVM/Clang replacement to GCC for anyone to use who can't f'n stand GPL. I'm glad they finally did it. With 10.7 and iOS 5 GCC is done within Apple's own solutions, though GCC is available through MacPorts for anything newer than GCC 4.2, but officially no longer supported. Besides, Blender, Inkscape, Qt, Boost, the Linux Kernel, and several other projects are testing against LLVM/Clang to build themselves to have another compiler solution and less dependency upon GCC.
AMD did a lot with finfets, so I wouldn't expect the transistor structure to be a problem ... but they're completely fucked with patterning until EUV hits. Intel has chromeless pixelized masks pretty much on lock down patent wise and it's a huge advantage.
You do realize that it's not just AMD but IBM that co-developed much with AMD, right? If you think Intel has it all locked down you better spend a few hundred hours reading up on IBM patents.
Do yourself a favor and visit GlobalFoundries latest news information. They are soon to be exploding and already have customers spoken for all but the new plant in New York that will be targeting the 22nm and below needs at 300mm wafer size.
http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/news/2011/07/12/globalfoundries-begins-installing.html
More News Here: http://www.globalfoundries.com/newsroom/
Tri-Gate competitor well under way. http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/07/12/global-foundries-tri-gate-competitor/1
You have such a singular wit.
I said I'd bet it was a huge factor in the recent increase, not that every mac sold is used for iOS development.
You're wrong. There aren't 10 million Mac Developers for OS X. The install base for iOS is over 100 million. Try again.
Are you showing that it's a fraud, like the article cited or just to get clicks like your own Headline shows? A bit of both, eh?
The man who is the father of the Mach Microkernel and one of the key engineers at NeXT is no where mentioned concerning the Mach Microkernel history on the Hurd's web site. Truly shows no respect towards history. You'd think Rashid was Linus Torvalds and the sole creator of Mach. Not even close.
Replace accelerometer with "sensor device" and you've got it. What Apple did was take something simple and made it more complex... and this makes it patentable? The switch on rotate is a sensor just as an accelerometer is. Get over yourself.
The 6 degrees of Freedom Accelerometer sensors that flip either a 2D or 3D View from Portrait to Landscape of a portable device is new as it rotates, translates, and tilts seamlessly with the human interaction and it's own 6 degrees of freedom. The Kinematics and Dynamics in this implementation is no way in hell something previously done, let alone in this form factor.
Army of Darkness was the perfect end to the trilogy (sorry Sam, but the studio was right--that S-Mart ending was fucking awesome).
Please don't ruin it with some lame retread with a tired, old Ash. Just let it be what it is.
Army was comical but it stunk to high heaven and it's connection with the first two films.
I love the fact that you could have said "I'm just trying to figure out why he wants to violate the KISS methodology" in fewer words such as "Why is he trying to complicate things?". Twit.
Anyway, he's not. The design process might be more complex; but be sure it will lead to a simple, elegant solution; and not more complex. It has to be cheap to produce and easy to maintain; while being just as sanitary and using less water than the current (pretty complex) flushing toilet. For example, a method for digging deeper dunny holes might be one solution.
``Things'' doesn't improve matters. To be more concise I would have said, ``What happened to KISS?''
While Apple has done a lot of innovation in the previous years, it seems now they started to lose the innovation battle. Since they can't innovate in tech anymore they're probably thinking they should try to innovate in the legal area... let's see how will the Apple fans digest that thought...
Thanks for the laugh. Apple has the most lawsuits filed against it in the entire Industry. It's not because it's running around filing frivolous lawsuits. It's because it's innovating and people see it making massive inroads into areas once controlled by other players. With the heavy investment in R&D being so efficient at Apple resulting in a massive increase in Apple Patents they are required to defend them or lose them.
They do a ton of research, most of which never materializes into innovations in goods and services. They would be one of the least efficient R&D arms amongst the big players.
Microsoft can't stand Google. Move along.
What's the reason? To offload the heavy lifting to the GPGPU so you can leverage all that OpenCL provides to the compiled native executable can only aid in the myriad of Javascript coding that currently bombards the CPU that could easily be passed onto the idle GPU(s).
Honestly, and I hate to do this since I haven't agreed to a damned thing they have done since the sweaty monkey took over, I think MSFT may be right on BOTH WebGL and OpenCL when it comes to security and here is why:
What is the most buggy driver on the average Windows system? Why that would be the graphics driver. Which driver is the LEAST likely to be updated? Again that would be the graphics driver. Which piece of hardware gets the least security checks because it would slow it down? Which piece of hardware thanks to the unified driver arch can take down tens of thousands of machines with a single buffer overflow? I think you get the idea.
ActiveX was a seriously Forest Gump level of stupid and this? Right up there alongside it. This is an idea which will have little to NO benefit for end users, increased risks of infection, and for what? So some browser can go wobbly windows like the average Linux distro? Yeah that's worth the huge increased risk.
Thanks to DXVA and H.26x support on even the low end GPUs released today there is already a trivial way to accelerate video. All this will do is give Windows and Linux users something in common, a nice single target for malware writers. It is a DUMB idea, greatly increases risk for the end users and for what? So you can run a game in a browser? The Asian MMOs have been doing that for ages by having plug ins and a mix of native and web code, and frankly the security there isn't very great there either.
So if someone can explain how having a device with a super fast CPU of its own, at least 256Mb of super fast RAM of its own, and with the most buggy and least likely to be updated drivers access to running untested or vetted third party code off the net I'm listening. Oh and with today's firmware it would probably be pretty trivial to flash in a loader that makes sure the payload is loaded upon startup. Nice for the malware writers, not really seeing a point for my end users here.
Bull shit. That's it. Pure Bull shit. The iframe is sandboxed in WebKit. Canvas is sandboxed in WebKit. How the hell do you cite WebGL and OpenCL and somehow fail to mention OpenGL? Utter bull shit. I could careless about Windows. This concerns OS X, iOS, Linux, Android and others. Enjoy DirectX11 and it's competitors to OpenCL, WebGL and WebCL. They will lose.
The Javascript code isn't doing the rendering of text. It uses dynamically loaded fonts and lets the platform's own font renderer render the glyphs. The Javascript code isn't pushing pixels.
There's less need for PDF than there used to be, now that you can download fonts in the browser. It might be worthwhile to take this PDF viewer and turn it into a server-side PDF to HTML translator.
OS X is Display PDF and 10.7 is OpenGL 3.2 system-wide. PDF is extremely lightweight on OS X.
Happens all the time. Now that I am dealing with a number of patents issued in the last decade, I have found that many of the USPTO ppl were foreigners working here (mostly chinese). I have already come across 6 patents issued over the last 7 years that have prior art (this is for PHYSICAL items, not software). Basically, USPTO was gutted under W. It needs to be revamped and restore to what happened to it.
Aren't you glad you made crap up about the citizenship of employees at the USPTO? It sure makes your hyperbolic rhetoric all the smaller.
that's a laugh, the situation only got worse after Democrats in control, and Obama is even worse than Bush in any and every way when it comes to being a corporate bitch, taking away our rights, building a police state. I was hoping Obama would have at least done some good, but he is an evil lying corrupt SOB.
Your brain rot is only overshadowed by your bigotry.
I'm assuming you're not from the U.S. A "race" here is referring to the election and not the ethnicity of the person or person(s) involved. The literal translation in this sense in "contest"... i.e. the "race" to the finish line. You'll notice that there's a "race" lookup table which contains Sheriff, Councilman, etc. It's referring to those "contests", not black, white, asian, latino, etc.
You don't have to be from the USA to have enough brains to scan the table headers and figure out that race doesn't pertain to ethnicity. That reminds me of people reading into headlines and jumping to conclusions when if they read the context of an article they should be pissed off at how misleading the article title is as bait for you to read the story.
Pray, do tell, how people that are able to sign up and live off of the public dole, then become too stupid (or otherwise unable) to get a FREE photo ID. Make the photo ID part of the requirement to use these benefits, and you'll cut down on foodstamp fraud too. This whole idea about poor people unable to get ID (which can be verified) is a disingenuous strawman arguement. "insurmountable burden", my ass - just another reason to perpetuate voter fraud!
Don't know which state you come from but a Personal ID is not FREE. It's $20 in Washington State. The Driver's License ranges from $25 to $50. Then of course you need proof of identity which requires a Notary Public Stamped Birth Certificate [another $25+ for the Notary Public stamp, and additional fee for the Birth Certificate at the Court House, plus you need to make sure your SS Card is on you to get the Birth Certificate. If you don't you have to go and have that, but if you are a homeless person I doubt you have much proof]. With 40% of the US in poverty that's one helluva a lot of disenfranchised voters. To answer your first statement, most people aren't signed up living off the public dole. The one's living off of their own invested Unemployment Insurance don't need a card. There are millions of homeless people who aren't on Welfare.
They have been given authority by several Congressional Laws throughout several decades. Stop thinking this is June 21, 1788 and we just ratified the US Constitution. Protections have been slowly disintegrating shortly after the last remnant of the Founding Fathers were in power and had pull to protect them. Stop voting in Evangelical Fundamentalists and you'll see how much push back Congress will actually do to keep a checks n' balance with the FBI. Stop sitting around ignoring all the Militia nut jobs around and take them more seriously because the FBI certainly does and must to keep even your ass from being threatened. The blade cuts both ways.
Having been since the days at NeXT when Steve's presentations became legendary the guy behind his presentations is Steve Jobs, himself. He's meticulous about preparing for his next Keynote [even after all these years] and orchestrates how it will work with everyone so they just work.