I'm just amazed SETI gets so much money. I know of no other projects that have burned through so much money just to produce a whole bunch of nothing by way of results.
You're going to bitch at Paul Allen for funding the project? Bitch at something with merit. It's his damn money and he can fund whatever the hell he wants.
I'm a pornographic film maker and I have just registered a screen-play with the USPTO and the US Copyright office for a creative work titled "The Large hardon Collider"depicting two white nude male actors running around a ring for the purpose of jousting with their abnormally large, erect penises. When the actor collides his penis with the opposing actor he is assigned a point for the collision, the first actor to achieve 5 points wins the privilege of engaging in the sex scene with a black actress. Any talk or writings involving "large hardon collider" or "large hardon collisions" with or without blackholes is a serious violation of my IP rights. My legal team is at this moment is preparing litigation against the more grievous violater one "Anonymous Coward".
Seriously if newstechnica.com habitually misspells the word hadron, which is so fundemental to the topic of the article, how can anybody give them any credibility?
It's also not a problem with either the iPhone or the users. The phone works just fine on other carriers' networks in other countries.
Because they are GSM networks. Verizon won't work with iPhone systems currently in the wild. They never will. It would require Apple to build out a custom CDMA phone while Verizon gets their LTE future in order, which will happen just shortly before AT&T gets their LTE roll out well on it's way. What extra investment on Apple's part is in it for them?
Why do people insist this is carrier specific? I had a friend who had Verizon and lived in NH. When he was driving he'd regularly say "I'm going to lose you in the next minute or so." Sure enough, bam, gone. And Verizon supposedly has awesome coverage.
NEWS FLASH: New England is a sparsely populated area, and EVERY carrier has about the same coverage- many of them are on the same fucking physical tower. Also, if you place your phone in a cradle or use a bluetooth handset and put the phone on the seat or the center armrest, it shields it quite a bit from the car. There are also car windshield heaters and aftermarket tint that is murder on RF.
Do what my father did: buy an RF amplifier/booster with a rooftop antenna. It works great with any phone- there is a transceiver that faces the backplate of the phone. As long as I could get ANY signal without it, putting the iPhone in the cradle gave me almost 5 bars- and in areas where there was no service, I'd often get plenty to make a phone call. In both cases, crystal-clear calls with no cutouts in the conversation, instant reception of text messages, etc.
I wish I had mod points to give you a 5 Insightful. The fact of the matter is you sound around my age [40] and grew up with Radio Shack, Frys and other electronic places that once held Hamm Radios and much more to adapt your products when the retail product wasn't adequate. Today's kid thinks all that crap comes in a pocket size case as if it's going to pick up signals from China.
And yet even with a perfectly legitimate, reasonable, intelligent argument against H.264, tons of/. comments will go against FF's decision to promote an open, free (for everyone, not just the end users) and sane video standard over a proprietary one, ensuring that only people with lots of money can create browsers, run video sites, etc.
It's time Americans stopped thinking of themselves as the centre of world technology. If Mozilla is determined to follow US law only and therefore not implement H.264 because it's encumbered with license fees there due to dumb local laws, then it is going to go the same way as the whole US software industry - it will disappear into a black hole of law suits and legal action and very quickly become irrelevant.
H.264 is a free and open standard, just not in the US. And to be honest, you can cry me a river. The US got itself into this mess, the US needs to get itself out of it, because quite honestly, the rest of the world is not going to wait around in the meantime.
My prediction? Canonical will fork it as Mark Shuttleworth's vision of Ubuntu is that "it just works". If the only way for him to achieve that is to fork Mozilla, then that is what I'm sure he'll at least consider doing.
Not to rain on our parade but H.264 is internationally patented up the wazzu, so spare me the American selfish slant. All those companies playing nice outside of US Borders are doing so knowing that the bulk of profiteering is made in the US, period. They were willing to place nice in the EU so they can continue to gain R&D returns on their investments, back within the US.
The list of licensees is extensive for H.264. The only Web browsers currently out of the loop are Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror and WebKit browsers for Linux that aren't developed by Google. I'd imagine the list of licensees that includes Apple, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, DirecTV, Samsung, Sorenson, LG, Toshiba, Sony, Mitsubishi, HBO, Fuji, Fujitsu, Sandisk, Sun Microsystems, Facebook, etc:
What is interesting here is that we are only five months and a million devices into the life of the Android. At month five, the iPhone had sold around two times as many devices.
The May 2009 article is saying, emphatically, that the Android platform is getting whipped and that the Browser [Chrome Lite] is being used more often than Safari inside the iPhone. That makes sense because native application options are massive for the iPhone and the Android is focusing more on browser based apps.
You don't really understand crumple zones then....
Either you take the hit, or the car does.
I prefer a broken car over a broken spine personally.
Don't misconstrue a redistribution of force from a single point to a single point spread over a zone intentionally designed to absorb and thus crumple on impact.
To redistribute the force of impact along a ripple spread across the tensor surface and thus be minimized to not even visibly deform the surface is a far more ideal situation than built-in pocket zones which are then replaced after impacts of even light forces. Those crumple zones sure are expensive to replace, when the auto industry should be using more elastic materials capable of spreading that force across it's surface and thus reducing it to a vector weaker than someone trying to punch the side of their car.
Apple has shown a clear desire to not remain glued to Microsoft. This is evident with the release of iWork and the dead-end path of the Office products on the Apple platform.
Because of my position, I have almost every handheld and PDA device that hits the market. As a seasoned.NET developer, I am biased towards Microsoft. However, that being said, the Windows Mobile platform is horrible. Even on devices like Samsung's Omnia, it is sluggish and cumbersome at best. Memory management is a nightmare.
The only realistic path is for the Windows Mobile platform to die off or be revamped from scratch. At most they may build a mobile version of Office for iPhone and Android but even that is a stretch.
You're correct on all fronts. Apple no longer needs Microsoft, period. This is a desperate plea for BusinessWeek investors long on Microsoft hoping Apple will save a dead ship floating in the ocean spinning in a circle. Microsoft has burned out all of it's fuel and is just going in circles. The stock is in a holding pattern [it's split too many times] between 25-32 for the past 5+ years. It's going no where.
No this does not make perfect sense. Steve has a feud with Bill going back to NeXT. Sorry, but this will never fly. Apple has made their continent and are growing it.
High-level distros EOL software all the time, based upon the project's design goals. They maintain builds, they do not develop the solution. Clearly, Debian has 5 levels of distribution structure and anyone running a 2.2 kernel Debian knew long ago that it was not going to be actively maintained whereas the 2.6.current branch is obviously being patched and changes moved upstream to the Kernel trunk.
...or their favorite skill in CS programming know jack s*** about Pure and Applied Mathematics, across several fields of Physics, Engineering and more. There is a reason most Engineers have taught themselves several programming languages. They have a ton of subject areas to cover that may or may not be better served in one language over another. Yet, with all the necessary Numerical Analysis, Heat Transfer, Fracture Mechanics, Creep, Stress/Strain across non-linear boundaries you still see the bulls*** coming from Biology majors who go on to Grad school, take a few more statistical classes and act as if they are one up on Engineers in Pure and Applied Mathematics. Drag their lame asses down to the labs to explain the Fluid Dynamics going on in an axial flow fan and they quickly realize they don't know jack about jack. CS major are the same way. They learn a damn programming language and walk around as if it's the answer to the Universe and not just a tool amongst thousands of tools to get work done.
Hell, most grad students in mathematics aren't running around bragging about their God knowledge of Statistics.
How the hell are you insightful? The OpenGL market owns the Smartphone industry. It's well on it's way in owning the game console industry. It own the highend CAD industry and Engineering modeling industry. It accelerates all OS X variants, it's becoming the defacto on Linux distributions where it makes sense, it's moving into the Web via WebGL and with the steadily eroding world around Microsoft is obviously doing well with the recent 3.1/3.2 updates and it's lovely new pal, OpenCL 1.1 being worked on has convinced all the GPGPU vendors that OpenGL/OpenCL is the one two punch for all Graphics.
OpenGL? Better? Sure, it was once. And it was going to be better than DirectX again, with the release of OpenGL 3.0. But then the Khronos group scrapped the Long Peaks draft to appease the CAD companies. Yes, there are extensions and with vendor specific extensions, OpenGL can do everything Direct3D can today. But after how many GL_NV_* extensions does OpenGL stop being a cohesive API?
Hardware vendors are just now releasing OpenGL 3.2 compliant drivers. CAD vendors have had plenty of notice dealing with deprecated APIs that held back all those forward thinking features in Long Peaks. They either stick with early releases or see their tools break with 3.3 and beyond.
Nvidia has a license to make QPI-based chips. whether they have any real plans to do so.....
No they do not. That was the reason they bailed out of the controller market.
Intel licensed SLI from Nvidia for their QPI based Core processors.
SANTA CLARA, CA—AUGUST 10, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Intel Corporation, and the world’s other leading motherboard manufacturers, including ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI, have all licensed NVIDIA® SLI® technology for inclusion on their Intel® P55 Express Chipset-based motherboards designed for the upcoming Intel® Core i7 and i5 processor in the LGA1156 socket.
The FTC notes the lawsuit is not a direct antitrust case and only accuses Intel of violating competition and monopoly rules under Section 5 of the FTC Act. As a result, it prevents other companies from 'piggybacking' on the lawsuit by using an antitrust decision to demand triple damages in any private cases.
In pursuing the complaint, the government commission is hoping to ban Intel from engaging in unfair bundling, pricing and exclusionary licenses and could, if victorious, force Intel to allow NVIDIA chipsets like the GeForce 9400M and Ion for Core i3, i5 and i7 processors as well as future Atom designs. Companies like Apple have faced the possibility of mandatory major reworkings of their computers to continue using modern processors.
it's WAY better than the pre-Apple cell phone world
Personally I preferred when phones were just phones.
Personally, I preferred when whiny little sh*** didn't work in the IT industry with a Liberal Arts degree and call themselves engineers, but as a multi-degreed engineer that's just not working like I want it to.
There are many of us who view this stuff poorly. I have not, do not, and will not own any Apple products. I simply do not like their closed platforms and anti-competitive nature, and I certainly won't pay more for the privilege of being restricted. Yes they have some nice hardware, but that in itself cannot overcome their approach to doing business.
Many of us don't give a rat's ass. Have the balls to comment other than AC. Or are you afraid of your employer chasing your ass down?
i just moved to cable internet from my SDSL 1500/1500 line and the difference is amazing. DSL is like dial up compared to Time Warner. i'm supposed to have 10mbps service and yet i've tested it to 15mbps a few times. and it tests at 7mbps during peak usage while i'm heavily using it as well
And VDSL/ADSL2+ ranges from 50-100MBps/20-40Mbps based upon your position to the CO and how they've set up FTTN.
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I'm just amazed SETI gets so much money. I know of no other projects that have burned through so much money just to produce a whole bunch of nothing by way of results.
You're going to bitch at Paul Allen for funding the project? Bitch at something with merit. It's his damn money and he can fund whatever the hell he wants.
I'm a pornographic film maker and I have just registered a screen-play with the USPTO and the US Copyright office for a creative work titled "The Large hardon Collider"depicting two white nude male actors running around a ring for the purpose of jousting with their abnormally large, erect penises. When the actor collides his penis with the opposing actor he is assigned a point for the collision, the first actor to achieve 5 points wins the privilege of engaging in the sex scene with a black actress. Any talk or writings involving "large hardon collider" or "large hardon collisions" with or without blackholes is a serious violation of my IP rights. My legal team is at this moment is preparing litigation against the more grievous violater one "Anonymous Coward".
Seriously if newstechnica.com habitually misspells the word hadron, which is so fundemental to the topic of the article, how can anybody give them any credibility?
Fundamental.
It's also not a problem with either the iPhone or the users. The phone works just fine on other carriers' networks in other countries.
Because they are GSM networks. Verizon won't work with iPhone systems currently in the wild. They never will. It would require Apple to build out a custom CDMA phone while Verizon gets their LTE future in order, which will happen just shortly before AT&T gets their LTE roll out well on it's way. What extra investment on Apple's part is in it for them?
Why do people insist this is carrier specific? I had a friend who had Verizon and lived in NH. When he was driving he'd regularly say "I'm going to lose you in the next minute or so." Sure enough, bam, gone. And Verizon supposedly has awesome coverage.
NEWS FLASH: New England is a sparsely populated area, and EVERY carrier has about the same coverage- many of them are on the same fucking physical tower. Also, if you place your phone in a cradle or use a bluetooth handset and put the phone on the seat or the center armrest, it shields it quite a bit from the car. There are also car windshield heaters and aftermarket tint that is murder on RF.
Do what my father did: buy an RF amplifier/booster with a rooftop antenna. It works great with any phone- there is a transceiver that faces the backplate of the phone. As long as I could get ANY signal without it, putting the iPhone in the cradle gave me almost 5 bars- and in areas where there was no service, I'd often get plenty to make a phone call. In both cases, crystal-clear calls with no cutouts in the conversation, instant reception of text messages, etc.
I wish I had mod points to give you a 5 Insightful. The fact of the matter is you sound around my age [40] and grew up with Radio Shack, Frys and other electronic places that once held Hamm Radios and much more to adapt your products when the retail product wasn't adequate. Today's kid thinks all that crap comes in a pocket size case as if it's going to pick up signals from China.
And yet even with a perfectly legitimate, reasonable, intelligent argument against H.264, tons of /. comments will go against FF's decision to promote an open, free (for everyone, not just the end users) and sane video standard over a proprietary one, ensuring that only people with lots of money can create browsers, run video sites, etc.
It's time Americans stopped thinking of themselves as the centre of world technology. If Mozilla is determined to follow US law only and therefore not implement H.264 because it's encumbered with license fees there due to dumb local laws, then it is going to go the same way as the whole US software industry - it will disappear into a black hole of law suits and legal action and very quickly become irrelevant.
H.264 is a free and open standard, just not in the US. And to be honest, you can cry me a river. The US got itself into this mess, the US needs to get itself out of it, because quite honestly, the rest of the world is not going to wait around in the meantime.
My prediction? Canonical will fork it as Mark Shuttleworth's vision of Ubuntu is that "it just works". If the only way for him to achieve that is to fork Mozilla, then that is what I'm sure he'll at least consider doing.
Not to rain on our parade but H.264 is internationally patented up the wazzu, so spare me the American selfish slant. All those companies playing nice outside of US Borders are doing so knowing that the bulk of profiteering is made in the US, period. They were willing to place nice in the EU so they can continue to gain R&D returns on their investments, back within the US.
The list of licensees is extensive for H.264. The only Web browsers currently out of the loop are Mozilla, Opera, Konqueror and WebKit browsers for Linux that aren't developed by Google. I'd imagine the list of licensees that includes Apple, Microsoft, Google, Adobe, DirecTV, Samsung, Sorenson, LG, Toshiba, Sony, Mitsubishi, HBO, Fuji, Fujitsu, Sandisk, Sun Microsystems, Facebook, etc:
http://www.mpegla.com/main/programs/AVC/Pages/Licensees.aspx
It's rather obvious that Mozilla pushing Ogg/Theora should target Viacom, Time Warner and other content producers before they license H.264.
Android gone nowhere? Are you just making stuff up? Google's Android's market share compares well with Apple's iPhone And that's from May, as in before the Droid hit the market.
From the article you cited:
The May 2009 article is saying, emphatically, that the Android platform is getting whipped and that the Browser [Chrome Lite] is being used more often than Safari inside the iPhone. That makes sense because native application options are massive for the iPhone and the Android is focusing more on browser based apps.
I spit my doobie onto the cat, who then knocked over my coffee, when I read that. Well played, sir.
Your ``doobie?''
And me without my bell-bottoms.
You don't really understand crumple zones then....
Either you take the hit, or the car does.
I prefer a broken car over a broken spine personally.
Don't misconstrue a redistribution of force from a single point to a single point spread over a zone intentionally designed to absorb and thus crumple on impact.
To redistribute the force of impact along a ripple spread across the tensor surface and thus be minimized to not even visibly deform the surface is a far more ideal situation than built-in pocket zones which are then replaced after impacts of even light forces. Those crumple zones sure are expensive to replace, when the auto industry should be using more elastic materials capable of spreading that force across it's surface and thus reducing it to a vector weaker than someone trying to punch the side of their car.
"nv" is the current nvidia kernel driver. "nvidia" is the official, proprietary driver from Nvidia.
Correction. nv is the current reverse engineered driver provided by Xorg.
nvidia is the official, Nvidia corporation driver to support Xorg systems
Apple has shown a clear desire to not remain glued to Microsoft. This is evident with the release of iWork and the dead-end path of the Office products on the Apple platform.
Because of my position, I have almost every handheld and PDA device that hits the market. As a seasoned .NET developer, I am biased towards Microsoft. However, that being said, the Windows Mobile platform is horrible. Even on devices like Samsung's Omnia, it is sluggish and cumbersome at best. Memory management is a nightmare.
The only realistic path is for the Windows Mobile platform to die off or be revamped from scratch. At most they may build a mobile version of Office for iPhone and Android but even that is a stretch.
You're correct on all fronts. Apple no longer needs Microsoft, period. This is a desperate plea for BusinessWeek investors long on Microsoft hoping Apple will save a dead ship floating in the ocean spinning in a circle. Microsoft has burned out all of it's fuel and is just going in circles. The stock is in a holding pattern [it's split too many times] between 25-32 for the past 5+ years. It's going no where.
No this does not make perfect sense. Steve has a feud with Bill going back to NeXT. Sorry, but this will never fly. Apple has made their continent and are growing it.
How about we actually fix crap like the POS infrastructures of the world before this dweeb gets Governments to fund his pet project?
From a few comments you'd think nginx and lighttpd are eating it's lunch. Let's face it, Apache wants to move onto the 3.0 future.
High-level distros EOL software all the time, based upon the project's design goals. They maintain builds, they do not develop the solution. Clearly, Debian has 5 levels of distribution structure and anyone running a 2.2 kernel Debian knew long ago that it was not going to be actively maintained whereas the 2.6.current branch is obviously being patched and changes moved upstream to the Kernel trunk.
...or their favorite skill in CS programming know jack s*** about Pure and Applied Mathematics, across several fields of Physics, Engineering and more. There is a reason most Engineers have taught themselves several programming languages. They have a ton of subject areas to cover that may or may not be better served in one language over another. Yet, with all the necessary Numerical Analysis, Heat Transfer, Fracture Mechanics, Creep, Stress/Strain across non-linear boundaries you still see the bulls*** coming from Biology majors who go on to Grad school, take a few more statistical classes and act as if they are one up on Engineers in Pure and Applied Mathematics. Drag their lame asses down to the labs to explain the Fluid Dynamics going on in an axial flow fan and they quickly realize they don't know jack about jack. CS major are the same way. They learn a damn programming language and walk around as if it's the answer to the Universe and not just a tool amongst thousands of tools to get work done.
Hell, most grad students in mathematics aren't running around bragging about their God knowledge of Statistics.
Just pick a field you love and live it
Wrong. It's one half plus the one half the square root of 5. Thus = (1 + sqrt(5))/2.
How the hell are you insightful? The OpenGL market owns the Smartphone industry. It's well on it's way in owning the game console industry. It own the highend CAD industry and Engineering modeling industry. It accelerates all OS X variants, it's becoming the defacto on Linux distributions where it makes sense, it's moving into the Web via WebGL and with the steadily eroding world around Microsoft is obviously doing well with the recent 3.1/3.2 updates and it's lovely new pal, OpenCL 1.1 being worked on has convinced all the GPGPU vendors that OpenGL/OpenCL is the one two punch for all Graphics.
OpenGL? Better? Sure, it was once. And it was going to be better than DirectX again, with the release of OpenGL 3.0. But then the Khronos group scrapped the Long Peaks draft to appease the CAD companies. Yes, there are extensions and with vendor specific extensions, OpenGL can do everything Direct3D can today. But after how many GL_NV_* extensions does OpenGL stop being a cohesive API?
Hardware vendors are just now releasing OpenGL 3.2 compliant drivers. CAD vendors have had plenty of notice dealing with deprecated APIs that held back all those forward thinking features in Long Peaks. They either stick with early releases or see their tools break with 3.3 and beyond.
You leave my wife out of this!
From the looks of it I'd hate to break it to you but she's been working hard and heavy behind your back.
Nvidia has a license to make QPI-based chips. whether they have any real plans to do so.....
No they do not. That was the reason they bailed out of the controller market.
Intel licensed SLI from Nvidia for their QPI based Core processors.
SANTA CLARA, CA—AUGUST 10, 2009—NVIDIA Corporation today announced that Intel Corporation, and the world’s other leading motherboard manufacturers, including ASUS, EVGA, Gigabyte, and MSI, have all licensed NVIDIA® SLI® technology for inclusion on their Intel® P55 Express Chipset-based motherboards designed for the upcoming Intel® Core i7 and i5 processor in the LGA1156 socket.
http://www.electronista.com/articles/09/12/16/ftc.ignores.amd.settlement.in.intel.suit/
The FTC notes the lawsuit is not a direct antitrust case and only accuses Intel of violating competition and monopoly rules under Section 5 of the FTC Act. As a result, it prevents other companies from 'piggybacking' on the lawsuit by using an antitrust decision to demand triple damages in any private cases. In pursuing the complaint, the government commission is hoping to ban Intel from engaging in unfair bundling, pricing and exclusionary licenses and could, if victorious, force Intel to allow NVIDIA chipsets like the GeForce 9400M and Ion for Core i3, i5 and i7 processors as well as future Atom designs. Companies like Apple have faced the possibility of mandatory major reworkings of their computers to continue using modern processors.
it's WAY better than the pre-Apple cell phone world
Personally I preferred when phones were just phones.
Personally, I preferred when whiny little sh*** didn't work in the IT industry with a Liberal Arts degree and call themselves engineers, but as a multi-degreed engineer that's just not working like I want it to.
There are many of us who view this stuff poorly. I have not, do not, and will not own any Apple products. I simply do not like their closed platforms and anti-competitive nature, and I certainly won't pay more for the privilege of being restricted. Yes they have some nice hardware, but that in itself cannot overcome their approach to doing business.
Many of us don't give a rat's ass. Have the balls to comment other than AC. Or are you afraid of your employer chasing your ass down?
who can't get IP?
i just moved to cable internet from my SDSL 1500/1500 line and the difference is amazing. DSL is like dial up compared to Time Warner. i'm supposed to have 10mbps service and yet i've tested it to 15mbps a few times. and it tests at 7mbps during peak usage while i'm heavily using it as well
And VDSL/ADSL2+ ranges from 50-100MBps/20-40Mbps based upon your position to the CO and how they've set up FTTN.
As the father of 2, I was going to guess it was for Bambi II. ;)
What British born international celebrity of 20 years doesn't eventually get knighted?
Brian May of Queen, for one.