Imagine the use of this as a weapon? From 50,000 feet up in the air, drop a football stadium equivilant bombs onto an unsuspecting city, effectively *leveling* it.
Anyone think that trying to run windows apps on Linux is counter productive? Yes so the person is no longer running Windows, but they are still tied to it. Reminds me a lot like OS/2, where most people would just use OS/2 to run Windows apps, and the number of OS/2 apps started to dwindle, till there was nothing left.
I'm waiting for high speed 802.11b access to be everywhere. We should blanket the country with 802.11b, and just provide internet connectivity similar to cell phones. In your "area" you get internet connectivity for $x, if you leave your area it costs some $y. It would kill DSL and Cable, but it would be great for travelers, people too far from CO, etc
eBay has a bunch of idiots for IT guys. They setup one of their oracle machines to core dump onto the root partition. A bug in Solaris 2.6 would overwrite the whole partition if total memory was greater than total disk space. Sun told eBay about this, they didn't listen and install the patch. Guess what, their oracle db cored, and took their whole OS with it. They were down for days...
Just because the fat is gone, doesn't mean you are any healthier. There still is cholestrol, high blood pressure and gazillions of problems that excerise helps reduce. Liposuction doesn solve any of them
Why are people so intent on merging PDA/Phones? They are not very size compatible. Like for example, I take my HandSpring Visor with me to school, but I just stuff it in my backpack and use it in class, but my phone I take *everywhere*. So I have to have a small phone (Nokia 8290). They serve two distinct purposes, and I refuse to merge them. I don't want a smaller PDA, its fine, and I don't want a larger phone, its fine.
So what's the point of this contraption? Yes its cool, but isn't the whole point of having multiple consoles is that you can use them seperatly? Not sure about you, but having multiple TVs and multiple consoles sure does keep all my friends happy when they visit
Academia drives reasearch that's used in the commercial world. And the commercial world implements these ideas giving a real world feedback to Academia. Basically both drive each other to new ideas and eventually new technologies.
Java 3D performance *is* improving, check out the J2SE Experts Booth at JavaOne, where we will demo a 3D application running at 90% of the C++ application using the NIO to load textures into video memory. Its impressive, and the Java application is 2000 lines versus the C++ nearly 5000 lines!
JDK1.4 has alot of features, but the biggest improvments is BUGS! The Java group spent 6 months doing nothing but fixing bugs. We went from 60 bugs in the Server compiler down to 0. JDK1.4 is much more stable the previous releases
Avantgo is an excellent piece of software, and assuming they are just trying to protect their intellectual properity then there is nothing with filling a patent on the hardwork they did to create the software. We have to limit who we get upset at, and this seems like a legit patent aimed at preventing people from taking their ideas.
There are alternatives to the old IA32, and these so called "extensions" to it (Hammer, Yamhill). The UltraSparc architecture is much better in terms of design, performance and scalability. Solaris is also an excellent operating system for development and business (web server, oracle, etc) work.
Why would I want one, when a USB CF reader is $20, and a 1gb IBM Microdrive is $300? I can get 3 times the storage and still have the "driverless" feature
they are touting.
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This is a very old concept, I saw a demo of this on tape done in the 70s!
Imagine the use of this as a weapon? From 50,000 feet up in the air, drop a football stadium equivilant bombs onto an unsuspecting city, effectively *leveling* it.
That's great that they offer such nice speeds, but of course I CAN'T GET AT&T Broadband where I live
*sigh*
I always called Magic the gathering as "Five Color Crack". Its about as addicting, and nearly as expensive.
Anyone think that trying to run windows apps on Linux is counter productive? Yes so the person is no longer running Windows, but they are still tied to it. Reminds me a lot like OS/2, where most people would just use OS/2 to run Windows apps, and the number of OS/2 apps started to dwindle, till there was nothing left.
Trusted Solaris is far more secure than almost any other commerical OS. It meets the governments B1 security requirements for an OS
I'm waiting for high speed 802.11b access to be everywhere. We should blanket the country with 802.11b, and just provide internet connectivity similar to cell phones. In your "area" you get internet connectivity for $x, if you leave your area it costs some $y. It would kill DSL and Cable, but it would be great for travelers, people too far from CO, etc
eBay has a bunch of idiots for IT guys. They setup one of their oracle machines to core dump onto the root partition. A bug in Solaris 2.6 would overwrite the whole partition if total memory was greater than total disk space. Sun told eBay about this, they didn't listen and install the patch. Guess what, their oracle db cored, and took their whole OS with it. They were down for days...
Just because the fat is gone, doesn't mean you are any healthier. There still is cholestrol, high blood pressure and gazillions of problems that excerise helps reduce. Liposuction doesn solve any of them
Why are people so intent on merging PDA/Phones? They are not very size compatible. Like for example, I take my HandSpring Visor with me to school, but I just stuff it in my backpack and use it in class, but my phone I take *everywhere*. So I have to have a small phone (Nokia 8290). They serve two distinct purposes, and I refuse to merge them. I don't want a smaller PDA, its fine, and I don't want a larger phone, its fine.
Thank you for ruining the episode for us on the west cost!
So what's the point of this contraption? Yes its cool, but isn't the whole point of having multiple consoles is that you can use them seperatly? Not sure about you, but having multiple TVs and multiple consoles sure does keep all my friends happy when they visit
Linux on Sparc hardware runs better on low end machines (1-2 CPU), Solaris is king on big machines
Why didn't creative at least try to make the thing smaller? Why does it have to look like a CD Player?
Ken Perlin was one a guest lecturer at my HCI class at Stanford. This guy has so many good ideas, check out his web page:
http://mrl.nyu.edu/~perlin/
Alot of his work is Java/Web based and so its really easy to look at and get a feel for how it would work
Academia drives reasearch that's used in the commercial world. And the commercial world implements these ideas giving a real world feedback to Academia. Basically both drive each other to new ideas and eventually new technologies.
Go to Sun's web page, http://www.sun.com/gnome
Go download JDK1.4, JDK1.3 *beta* is old, ancient. Besides having a ton of bug fixes, performance is up big time.
Java 3D performance *is* improving, check out the J2SE Experts Booth at JavaOne, where we will demo a 3D application running at 90% of the C++ application using the NIO to load textures into video memory. Its impressive, and the Java application is 2000 lines versus the C++ nearly 5000 lines!
Not a fair test, dual proc with more memory vs a single proc with less memory.
JDK1.4 has alot of features, but the biggest improvments is BUGS! The Java group spent 6 months doing nothing but fixing bugs. We went from 60 bugs in the Server compiler down to 0. JDK1.4 is much more stable the previous releases
People in translucent concrete homes shouldn't throw rocks
Avantgo is an excellent piece of software, and assuming they are just trying to protect their intellectual properity then there is nothing with filling a patent on the hardwork they did to create the software. We have to limit who we get upset at, and this seems like a legit patent aimed at preventing people from taking their ideas.
There are alternatives to the old IA32, and these so called "extensions" to it (Hammer, Yamhill). The UltraSparc architecture is much better in terms of design, performance and scalability. Solaris is also an excellent operating system for development and business (web server, oracle, etc) work.
Why would I want one, when a USB CF reader is $20, and a 1gb IBM Microdrive is $300? I can get 3 times the storage and still have the "driverless" feature
they are touting.