Who said the interface that will accompany this 3D desktop will be 2D?
You think the next iteration of the MacBook is going to be a giant cube? Or a sphere perhaps?
I don't know about you, but I'm not putting any stupid cube or sphere in my backpack, thankyouverymuch.
I think the parent poster is fantasizing on a holographic projection touch display.
Does Via make anything with enough power for this to matter? All their graphics (and for that matter, everything else) seems to be bare minimum or less hardware that competes on price and power.
Don't get me wrong, I love them* but I have a hard time imagining it'd be worth anything to exploit the power in their graphics.
*Except that they don't make a server quality chipset to go with their processors. That pisses me off.
Ask Bill Joy what he thinks of Computer Science as an Engineering Field. When it actually resembles something as solid as Mechanical Engineering we'll no longer need such articles to remind people how far it has to go to become an actual Engineering Discipline.
You aren't discussing Gauss's Law, Bernoulli's Laws, the Otto Cycle, so on and so forth in Computer Science.
I agree that there is far less practical application in curriculum, but that in the Industry there are far too few people with the theoretical foundation to extend the field into new practical areas.
I think the OP meant, "If they could finally get around to ratifying an openGL 3.1 specification in 6 months (instead of being 2 or 3 years late as GL3.0 was); turn it into a useful standard that people actually want to use (which GL3.0 is not); and finally make good on all the things we were promised for 3.0, which they ended up ditching at the last minute. If that happens linux/mac openGL developers around the world will feel less dirty than they do right now"....
He wasn't implying anything about windows + GL as such, more making the observation that openGL is vital to Mac/linux - and as such those OS's are very much at the mercy of the Khronos group's actions (or more accurately - no action at all as was the case with GL3).
The 6 months for OpenCL is based upon 3 or more years of Apple work flushed out and the 6 months are the flushed out specs that satisfy all the big 3 GPU vendors and the more specialized vendors. Perhaps now that this is done, Apple will do more of the heavy lifting and then accelerate OpenGL 3.1 to be done soon as well, seeing as how much it will play a role in Snow Leopard with OpenCL.
In a country [Holland] where everyone practically has a Masters your statement needs to be put into proper context before you espouse experience is more important. Your country just starts the bar at a different leveling field.
Let's just say my Mechanical Engineering degree and Computer Science degree, combined with my years of IT support at a major University, plus tutoring a wide variety of subjects and students, not to mention my years of networking are what made it possible to get into companies like NeXT and Apple.
There are a lot of companies that will throw 20 bodies to resolve issues a team of 5 diversely skilled professionals can do; and when economies scale back those 15 people with limited skill sets and backgrounds are the first to go.
Then you've never worked for companies like NeXT, HP, Intel, AMD, IBM, Honda, Toyota, Boeing, et.al or any other corporation that relies on leading experts in their fields to lead their respective industries forward with product development.
I have a better idea. How about they work on getting their operating system to judiciously select available Cores to offload more work and thus have a more responsive, robust operating system. Once they've accomplished this they should have APIs for developers to effectively do the same for their applications to spread around portions of their applications workload demands across those cores.
You're correct and it's during a time that Microsoft got away with felony business practices. People acted as if it was okay for Microsoft to steal and now that they are seeing their own fair share of pirating they are crying wolf.
College degrees are the new high school diplomas. If you didn't go to college, you're like a backwoods hick whose parents took him out of schooling early so he could chop wood and feed the pigs.
You're half right, college degrees are the new high school diplomas... they are completely worthless the instant you graduate.
As for the hick comment, you realize that the reason kids used to get pulled to do chores was because that's what their families needed to survive, right? Are you seriously making fun of poor, rural families or are you just not creative enough to come up with something better.
I bet you spent so much time becoming l33t in college that you don't even know how ignorant and offensive you sound to people educated in the real world.
Nice generality that isn't remotely correct. The value of the bachelor's degree depends on the choice of degree.
All Applied Sciences [Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Chemistry, et.al] are highly valuable.
What companies would truly prefer are those highly technical backgrounds with natural self-motivators who also have innate marketability for themselves and their prospective employer. [especially for their prospective employer]
The one area that a University degree offers you over a straight up job is a wide spectrum of social networking contacts. You either see that, leverage it and build upon it or you don't. That part doesn't take a degree.
If you live near any higher education institutions I'd suggest socializing within those circles while you're working your way up. Go work for a University and you can get a massive discount on the cost of classes. That will help you figure out and continue building contacts. Don't plan on making it in 5 years, but build upon a goal for 10 to 15 years down the line.
You're clearly masking an attempt at thinking. Tax Cuts are half the equation. Spending Reductions exceeding any projected Tax increases must be initiated as the other half of the equation.
Reduce National Debt == (Tax Cuts + Projected Tax Revenue Increases replaced with equivalent monetary downsizing of the Federal Government) requires consolidation of redundant services, closing pet projects for the Social Services Industries, elimination of several "newly created Departments to serve as sub agencies for their parent agencies], downsizing the War on Drugs et. al.
Bush created the Debt by Tax Cuts + massive Military expense increases under the pretense of War and National Self-Defense on multiple fronts, including The Drug War.
I could go on but it seems people have a low grasp of Balanced Equations.
You'd rather see $50 Billion go down the crapper to the Auto Industry whereas that same amount of money could give is far more ROI than some pissant electric automobile/fuel cell hybrid?
The douchebag posting the lack of Return on Investment (ROI) most likely wasn't born to know that their was a world of advancement long before his parents copulated.
WebObjects used Enterprise Object Frameworks to abstract what stored procedures do some of now [people wanted to squeeze every aspect of speed out inside the RDBMS and argued that value of object design wasn't as important] and it seems stuff is beginning to come full circle.
Too bad Apple hasn't brought WebObjects back to Cocoa and ObjC where it truly was a leader.
Seeing as the people who evaluate the patent probably don't have any computer experience, the answer would probably be yes.
That's rather rich. ``So let me get this straight, all I have to do is validate or invalidate software patents but I don't need any experience on computers?''
Respondent: ``That's correct.''
Self: ``Now I understand the meaning of `this is government work.'''
I believe you meant to say, ``blow the doors off the competition,'' but let's just say the "cost" of those drives ``blows chunks.''
Extreme for enterprise
Solid-state drives use either single-level or multi-level cell flash memory. The former stores one bit per memory cell (a value of 0 or 1) while the latter is capable of storing two bits per cell (with possible values of 00, 01, 10, and 11). Obviously, MLC flash has a significant advantage on the storage density front. However, that advantage comes at the cost of write speeds, which are typically much slower than reads. Intel's MLC-based X25-M, for example, is capable of reading at up to 250MB/s, but its sustained write speed tops out at only 70MB/s. Single-level cell memory doesn't suffer such a great disparity between read and write speeds, as evidenced by the X25-E Extreme, which reads at up to 250MB/s and writes at up to 170MB/s.
Of course, the more balanced transfer rates offered by SLC memory don't come cheap. The X25-M 80GB is currently selling for $621 online, which works out to a seemingly exorbitant $7.76 per gigabyte. But that's nothing compared to the cost of the X25-E Extreme 32GB, which at $719 online, rings in at an even steeper $22.47 per gigabyte. Solid-state storage isn't cheap, and single-level cell implementations are about as expensive as SSDs get.
I hear the US Government knows how to piss money down the drain. I'm bettin' they think this price/Gb is just f'n dreamy!
True, but when the actual Library of Congress entire Library is converted digitally then they can brag on comparisons. However, I doubt they will want to seeing as how that will be far larger than a petabyte of data.
I see $19.99 for the software and an additional $14.99 per month. Sorry, but people bitch about OS X being $129 for an entire freaking operating system major upgrade but they want one to basically spring for $180 to have a year of on-line game playing?
Brilliant idea! That's right up with the $20 a month for email to chat with strangers on dating sites. Mankind finds amazing ways to piss money down the drain.
The game looks very cool and if they had a means of subsidizing it and making it so addictive that you want to pull a Half-life view where life just seems dull without it then I suggest something less immediate on the pocketbook and more on charging for expansion packs or whatnot.
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You think the next iteration of the MacBook is going to be a giant cube? Or a sphere perhaps? I don't know about you, but I'm not putting any stupid cube or sphere in my backpack, thankyouverymuch.
I think the parent poster is fantasizing on a holographic projection touch display.
I think the biggest barrier to growth is the lack of music talent now compared to the times past which saw explosive growth in the 70's and 80's.
Does Via make anything with enough power for this to matter? All their graphics (and for that matter, everything else) seems to be bare minimum or less hardware that competes on price and power.
Don't get me wrong, I love them* but I have a hard time imagining it'd be worth anything to exploit the power in their graphics.
*Except that they don't make a server quality chipset to go with their processors. That pisses me off.
They own S3.
Ask Bill Joy what he thinks of Computer Science as an Engineering Field. When it actually resembles something as solid as Mechanical Engineering we'll no longer need such articles to remind people how far it has to go to become an actual Engineering Discipline.
You aren't discussing Gauss's Law, Bernoulli's Laws, the Otto Cycle, so on and so forth in Computer Science.
I agree that there is far less practical application in curriculum, but that in the Industry there are far too few people with the theoretical foundation to extend the field into new practical areas.
I think the OP meant, "If they could finally get around to ratifying an openGL 3.1 specification in 6 months (instead of being 2 or 3 years late as GL3.0 was); turn it into a useful standard that people actually want to use (which GL3.0 is not); and finally make good on all the things we were promised for 3.0, which they ended up ditching at the last minute. If that happens linux/mac openGL developers around the world will feel less dirty than they do right now"....
He wasn't implying anything about windows + GL as such, more making the observation that openGL is vital to Mac/linux - and as such those OS's are very much at the mercy of the Khronos group's actions (or more accurately - no action at all as was the case with GL3).
The 6 months for OpenCL is based upon 3 or more years of Apple work flushed out and the 6 months are the flushed out specs that satisfy all the big 3 GPU vendors and the more specialized vendors. Perhaps now that this is done, Apple will do more of the heavy lifting and then accelerate OpenGL 3.1 to be done soon as well, seeing as how much it will play a role in Snow Leopard with OpenCL.
In a country [Holland] where everyone practically has a Masters your statement needs to be put into proper context before you espouse experience is more important. Your country just starts the bar at a different leveling field.
Let's just say my Mechanical Engineering degree and Computer Science degree, combined with my years of IT support at a major University, plus tutoring a wide variety of subjects and students, not to mention my years of networking are what made it possible to get into companies like NeXT and Apple.
There are a lot of companies that will throw 20 bodies to resolve issues a team of 5 diversely skilled professionals can do; and when economies scale back those 15 people with limited skill sets and backgrounds are the first to go.
Then you've never worked for companies like NeXT, HP, Intel, AMD, IBM, Honda, Toyota, Boeing, et.al or any other corporation that relies on leading experts in their fields to lead their respective industries forward with product development.
I have a better idea. How about they work on getting their operating system to judiciously select available Cores to offload more work and thus have a more responsive, robust operating system. Once they've accomplished this they should have APIs for developers to effectively do the same for their applications to spread around portions of their applications workload demands across those cores.
He's probably referring to the Core speed of a standard GPU w/o the multiplier, running at 400Mhz.
You're correct and it's during a time that Microsoft got away with felony business practices. People acted as if it was okay for Microsoft to steal and now that they are seeing their own fair share of pirating they are crying wolf.
College degrees are the new high school diplomas. If you didn't go to college, you're like a backwoods hick whose parents took him out of schooling early so he could chop wood and feed the pigs.
You're half right, college degrees are the new high school diplomas... they are completely worthless the instant you graduate.
As for the hick comment, you realize that the reason kids used to get pulled to do chores was because that's what their families needed to survive, right? Are you seriously making fun of poor, rural families or are you just not creative enough to come up with something better.
I bet you spent so much time becoming l33t in college that you don't even know how ignorant and offensive you sound to people educated in the real world.
Nice generality that isn't remotely correct. The value of the bachelor's degree depends on the choice of degree.
All Applied Sciences [Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Chemistry, et.al] are highly valuable.
What companies would truly prefer are those highly technical backgrounds with natural self-motivators who also have innate marketability for themselves and their prospective employer. [especially for their prospective employer]
The one area that a University degree offers you over a straight up job is a wide spectrum of social networking contacts. You either see that, leverage it and build upon it or you don't. That part doesn't take a degree.
If you live near any higher education institutions I'd suggest socializing within those circles while you're working your way up. Go work for a University and you can get a massive discount on the cost of classes. That will help you figure out and continue building contacts. Don't plan on making it in 5 years, but build upon a goal for 10 to 15 years down the line.
You're clearly masking an attempt at thinking. Tax Cuts are half the equation. Spending Reductions exceeding any projected Tax increases must be initiated as the other half of the equation.
Reduce National Debt == (Tax Cuts + Projected Tax Revenue Increases replaced with equivalent monetary downsizing of the Federal Government) requires consolidation of redundant services, closing pet projects for the Social Services Industries, elimination of several "newly created Departments to serve as sub agencies for their parent agencies], downsizing the War on Drugs et. al.
Bush created the Debt by Tax Cuts + massive Military expense increases under the pretense of War and National Self-Defense on multiple fronts, including The Drug War.
I could go on but it seems people have a low grasp of Balanced Equations.
You'd rather see $50 Billion go down the crapper to the Auto Industry whereas that same amount of money could give is far more ROI than some pissant electric automobile/fuel cell hybrid?
The douchebag posting the lack of Return on Investment (ROI) most likely wasn't born to know that their was a world of advancement long before his parents copulated.
WebObjects used Enterprise Object Frameworks to abstract what stored procedures do some of now [people wanted to squeeze every aspect of speed out inside the RDBMS and argued that value of object design wasn't as important] and it seems stuff is beginning to come full circle.
Too bad Apple hasn't brought WebObjects back to Cocoa and ObjC where it truly was a leader.
Or the truly subversive meaning of PETA:
Premenstrual Extraterrestrial Tree Activists.
Seeing as the people who evaluate the patent probably don't have any computer experience, the answer would probably be yes.
That's rather rich. ``So let me get this straight, all I have to do is validate or invalidate software patents but I don't need any experience on computers?''
Respondent: ``That's correct.''
Self: ``Now I understand the meaning of `this is government work.'''
You object to Picasso, but not Ed?
Sorry bud, but SPICE is for simulation, not diagramming (CAD software is for the latter).
You were so confident about that observation that you had to write two comments, I see.
I believe you meant to say, ``blow the doors off the competition,'' but let's just say the "cost" of those drives ``blows chunks.''
I hear the US Government knows how to piss money down the drain. I'm bettin' they think this price/Gb is just f'n dreamy!
You're using a non-release Chrome and yet I'm not seeing a nightly build of Safari referenced.
The Developer Preview of Safari 4.0 trounces Safari 3.1.x.
The Safari nighly builds trounce all over Safari 4.0 developer preview.
True, but when the actual Library of Congress entire Library is converted digitally then they can brag on comparisons. However, I doubt they will want to seeing as how that will be far larger than a petabyte of data.
I see $19.99 for the software and an additional $14.99 per month. Sorry, but people bitch about OS X being $129 for an entire freaking operating system major upgrade but they want one to basically spring for $180 to have a year of on-line game playing?
Brilliant idea! That's right up with the $20 a month for email to chat with strangers on dating sites. Mankind finds amazing ways to piss money down the drain.
The game looks very cool and if they had a means of subsidizing it and making it so addictive that you want to pull a Half-life view where life just seems dull without it then I suggest something less immediate on the pocketbook and more on charging for expansion packs or whatnot.
Sorry, but I'll take Sexy in Glasses with the Fargo Shredder scene of a Turkey over this crap.