Perhaps this is a cause for the "spontaneous human combustion" phenomenon? It would leave no evidence as to what started the fire and would certainly appear quite spontaneously.
Some of these comments are terrible. Why all the RMS bashing? I, for one, thought that RMS wanting GNU attached to the linux name was childish for the longest time. I thought he was just looking for some recognition for personal gain. Really, though, it's for his GNU cause, which I believe is really quite noble. Most free software in the world would not exist had it not been for the GNU system. There is the common argument "linux isn't linux without GNU", and the counter-argument that linux is so much more -- packages like Apache and GIMP -- but these would not have gotten started without the free GNU development system. Thousands of coders and projects (open and closed source) are forever indebted to the GNU system, specifically gcc and emacs. I am not a GNU fanatic (heh, I use vi:) but stepping back for a moment and putting things in perspective makes me think it's time to give credit where credit is due, although putting 'GNU' in front of the linux name seems inappropriate. Anyways, just stop with the RMS bashing. He's on your "side" in the software world, remember that when you're typing gcc -o a.out foo.c;)
...this thing is totally Linux/Mozilla based. And the best part -- check out the "developers" pdf, the want people to hack it! I think someone finally figured out what the hacking community is all about:) With a slough of A/V hardware and simple x86 arch this could be fun. A sleek little set-top box that I can hack from the couch:)
This article is terrible. Her topic is "Mono can Kill Genome". In her opening paragraph she spouts, "and did you know that HP and Intel have a front for getting patents"? Where the hell did that come from? Intel and HP are in a joint venture on IA64, creating a holding company for the patents that come out of it is a convenient way to share them, and it's no big secret either.
This has nothing to do with Genome. She also mentions Fiorina's speech at LWCE where she talks about the rabid supporters of Linux within HP. What does this have to do with Mono? Anyone? Her article should be moderated -1, Offtopic
I bet even your toaster has an IC in it:) (and don't say "how useless is that?", because my toaster makes some pretty good toast exactly how I like it every time). Most of your modern conveniences owe their existence to this fantastic idea. One thing you're failing to mention are advances on those pre-1946 concepts (IC is an extrapolation on the transistor).
It's rather difficult to study genetics without large quantities of DNA. Along with this tech there is gel electrophoresis that you use to analyze your strands.
1984 - RouterNeed I say more? Would we be on the 'Net right now without it?
There is just too much to list, but these were some of my favorites. You get the picture. There are some others, like the Operating System, where would you be without that? Or the C Programming Language as another, or high level languages in general.
I think an important point here is that the presentation talked about advances in areas where there's not much room for advancement. Trying to make any major improvements in "word processor technology" is pretty futile.
That is quite wild. It looks like the only nasty side effects would be to mozilla, as long as you're careful and don't export that LD_PRELOAD in a shell and then run some apps the resolve to this version of "open", which shouldn't be fatal, unless they're using the audio device and blah, blah... I'll take my chances, thanks:)
Perhaps a "magic" VM could solve these problems. The magic here would involve the CPU checking it's instruction stream against it's hardware assisted TLB. It could speculatively pre-fetch pages before they're need. Hrm, though, we are still talking about ms access times to disk, oh well, some day... so try this: if his code is quite regular (not too many branches), he should be able to do this. Okay, so this could be quite difficult, but given the description of his program, just make a "false" access to some of the data you're going to need in the future, causing the os to load that page, and hoping that it doesn't swap out your current page, you should already have your data in memory by the time your code rolls around to the fetched page. Keep in mind that your program is going to have to be multi-threaded so that it doesn't choke on the "false" access. This technique would require intimate knowledge of your compiled program, but if you're working on a program that uses data of this size and minimizing waiting on page swaps would save you minutes/hours/days of compute time it'd be well worth it.
Does anyone have a solution to this, or should I take this up with Macromedia? Whenever a page with flash attempts to load, it halts mozilla til the flash plugin can get a handle on the audio hardware, regardless of whether or not the plugin is actually going to play sound. I absolutely abhor flash, but the flash virus has spread so much that I can't use certain sites without it (and their admins refuse to present a flash-less page, or even understand that their programmers are using a non-standard method for their site design).
The newsforge comment on RMS' attendance habits is just plain false. RMS was at LWCE in San Jose in the fall of '99, and there was no "GNU" prefix attached. He was really tearing up the dance floor at the/./Andover party:)
And most apps on Linux or solaris don't benifit from a 2nd processor either.
Actually, most apps I've written for linux get dramatic speedups from the 2 or more processors. I'm developing some digitial content creation software and getting video from 1394 interfaces, raytracing, and evaluating spline surfaces are much faster on mp machines (the speedup gained by image processing has already been mentioned). Hrm, what kind of software do mac owners use most? It looks to me like Apple has looked at it's installed user base and given them exactly what they want! Also, most users prefer to multitask these days. It never hurts to have another processor hanging around to play your mp3s or serve your webpages in the background:)
Just wait til this comes out. And then you'll find out why everything is so hard-wired it's going to be really hard to scale through generations without recompiling is an incorrect assumption.
Most power is lost at connections between two different materials, and there aren't any in this design.
No it isn't. Most power is lost through leakage and dynamic circuits. Did you even think about yield and testability? Do you realize how complicated the switching network is going to have to be to interconnect all those processors? You're going to need a wafer several times larger than that to get your interconnect in there. Anyways, your idea isn't feasible in any way. End of discussion.
I apparently damages cd-r media (which I've always thought to be somewhat sensitive anyways). CD's that work here in colorado don't by the time the get to a friend in Washington, DC, but they're just fine when I send them to destinations that aren't likely to be using the irradiating equipment yet (small town Nebraska). This is just speculation.
Now make it all robust and fast for when some fool writes a page with 100 IFRAMEs, or 1000 combo
boxes, or 10000 paragraphs all nested inside each other
Make the common case fast. I don't think there's too much effort going on in compiler development to make code that was poorly written to begin with fast, so why should your html engine? Make the rare case correct. Design your html renderer likewise. Really, layout isn't rocket science, only rocket science is rocket science. UI toolkits (Xm, Qt, gtk, etc) have been making fast, resizable layout engines for years.
I installed the latest quicktime player software, and it also deleted all the data it could. The only thing left was an (almost) empty win98 directory. Perhaps apple should look at ALL of their install programs!!!
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so I'm not for this in any way... but... yes, terrorists are not going to play fair here, which could be their downfall. Any transmission that couldn't be "backdoored" could be flagged and traced, leading to the bad guys. I know, that's easier said than done, and this backdoor is a dumb idea, and blah, blah, blah. Looking back, this post is terrible. Oh well, my $.02
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... Mike Tyson punchout on NES. By todays standards, that game was a joke...
By today's standards, Mike Tyson is a joke!
Perhaps this is a cause for the "spontaneous human combustion" phenomenon? It would leave no evidence as to what started the fire and would certainly appear quite spontaneously.
Some of these comments are terrible. Why all the RMS bashing? I, for one, thought that RMS wanting GNU attached to the linux name was childish for the longest time. I thought he was just looking for some recognition for personal gain. Really, though, it's for his GNU cause, which I believe is really quite noble. Most free software in the world would not exist had it not been for the GNU system. There is the common argument "linux isn't linux without GNU", and the counter-argument that linux is so much more -- packages like Apache and GIMP -- but these would not have gotten started without the free GNU development system. Thousands of coders and projects (open and closed source) are forever indebted to the GNU system, specifically gcc and emacs. I am not a GNU fanatic (heh, I use vi :) but stepping back for a moment and putting things in perspective makes me think it's time to give credit where credit is due, although putting 'GNU' in front of the linux name seems inappropriate. Anyways, just stop with the RMS bashing. He's on your "side" in the software world, remember that when you're typing gcc -o a.out foo.c ;)
The anti gravity experiment article was not run on April Fool's Day, it was run on March 24th, and is quite real. Thanks for playing.
...this thing is totally Linux/Mozilla based. And the best part -- check out the "developers" pdf, the want people to hack it! I think someone finally figured out what the hacking community is all about :) With a slough of A/V hardware and simple x86 arch this could be fun. A sleek little set-top box that I can hack from the couch :)
Cheers,
Mike
He asked for it, right? Don't buy into reverse psychology.
This article is terrible. Her topic is "Mono can Kill Genome". In her opening paragraph she spouts, "and did you know that HP and Intel have a front for getting patents"? Where the hell did that come from? Intel and HP are in a joint venture on IA64, creating a holding company for the patents that come out of it is a convenient way to share them, and it's no big secret either. This has nothing to do with Genome. She also mentions Fiorina's speech at LWCE where she talks about the rabid supporters of Linux within HP. What does this have to do with Mono? Anyone? Her article should be moderated -1, Offtopic
Mike
1958 - TheThe integrated circuit
:) (and don't say "how useless is that?", because my toaster makes some pretty good toast exactly how I like it every time). Most of your modern conveniences owe their existence to this fantastic idea. One thing you're failing to mention are advances on those pre-1946 concepts (IC is an extrapolation on the transistor).
I bet even your toaster has an IC in it
1983 - PCR
It's rather difficult to study genetics without large quantities of DNA. Along with this tech there is gel electrophoresis that you use to analyze your strands.
1984 - RouterNeed I say more? Would we be on the 'Net right now without it?
There is just too much to list, but these were some of my favorites. You get the picture. There are some others, like the Operating System, where would you be without that? Or the C Programming Language as another, or high level languages in general.
I think an important point here is that the presentation talked about advances in areas where there's not much room for advancement. Trying to make any major improvements in "word processor technology" is pretty futile.
Mike
That is quite wild. It looks like the only nasty side effects would be to mozilla, as long as you're careful and don't export that LD_PRELOAD in a shell and then run some apps the resolve to this version of "open", which shouldn't be fatal, unless they're using the audio device and blah, blah... I'll take my chances, thanks :)
Perhaps a "magic" VM could solve these problems. The magic here would involve the CPU checking it's instruction stream against it's hardware assisted TLB. It could speculatively pre-fetch pages before they're need. Hrm, though, we are still talking about ms access times to disk, oh well, some day... so try this: if his code is quite regular (not too many branches), he should be able to do this. Okay, so this could be quite difficult, but given the description of his program, just make a "false" access to some of the data you're going to need in the future, causing the os to load that page, and hoping that it doesn't swap out your current page, you should already have your data in memory by the time your code rolls around to the fetched page. Keep in mind that your program is going to have to be multi-threaded so that it doesn't choke on the "false" access. This technique would require intimate knowledge of your compiled program, but if you're working on a program that uses data of this size and minimizing waiting on page swaps would save you minutes/hours/days of compute time it'd be well worth it.
Michael
Does anyone have a solution to this, or should I take this up with Macromedia? Whenever a page with flash attempts to load, it halts mozilla til the flash plugin can get a handle on the audio hardware, regardless of whether or not the plugin is actually going to play sound. I absolutely abhor flash, but the flash virus has spread so much that I can't use certain sites without it (and their admins refuse to present a flash-less page, or even understand that their programmers are using a non-standard method for their site design).
Michael
The newsforge comment on RMS' attendance habits is just plain false. RMS was at LWCE in San Jose in the fall of '99, and there was no "GNU" prefix attached. He was really tearing up the dance floor at the /. /Andover party :)
Mike
IIRC, aren't the RGB component inputs on most HD televisions "Sync On Green"? I think this is going to look really nice on my WEGA :)
And most apps on Linux or solaris don't benifit from a 2nd processor either.
:)
Actually, most apps I've written for linux get dramatic speedups from the 2 or more processors. I'm developing some digitial content creation software and getting video from 1394 interfaces, raytracing, and evaluating spline surfaces are much faster on mp machines (the speedup gained by image processing has already been mentioned). Hrm, what kind of software do mac owners use most? It looks to me like Apple has looked at it's installed user base and given them exactly what they want! Also, most users prefer to multitask these days. It never hurts to have another processor hanging around to play your mp3s or serve your webpages in the background
Just wait til this comes out. And then you'll find out why everything is so hard-wired it's going to be really hard to scale through generations without recompiling is an incorrect assumption.
Most power is lost at connections between two different materials, and there aren't any in this design.
No it isn't. Most power is lost through leakage and dynamic circuits. Did you even think about yield and testability? Do you realize how complicated the switching network is going to have to be to interconnect all those processors? You're going to need a wafer several times larger than that to get your interconnect in there. Anyways, your idea isn't feasible in any way. End of discussion.
I apparently damages cd-r media (which I've always thought to be somewhat sensitive anyways). CD's that work here in colorado don't by the time the get to a friend in Washington, DC, but they're just fine when I send them to destinations that aren't likely to be using the irradiating equipment yet (small town Nebraska). This is just speculation.
Now make it all robust and fast for when some fool writes a page with 100 IFRAMEs, or 1000 combo boxes, or 10000 paragraphs all nested inside each other
Make the common case fast. I don't think there's too much effort going on in compiler development to make code that was poorly written to begin with fast, so why should your html engine? Make the rare case correct. Design your html renderer likewise. Really, layout isn't rocket science, only rocket science is rocket science. UI toolkits (Xm, Qt, gtk, etc) have been making fast, resizable layout engines for years.
Mike
does it have, of course, On Star (tm)? Perhaps if Mead starts making Trapper Keeper based portables...
Neil Stephenson's not dead!
I installed the latest quicktime player software, and it also deleted all the data it could. The only thing left was an (almost) empty win98 directory. Perhaps apple should look at ALL of their install programs!!!
Mike
...and I'm not really interested in 45" of computer display.
:)
C'mon! Everyone wants at least a 45" computer display
Mike
A simple system -- let registered users mod up their anonymous posts with their karma points at time of posting.only up to standard '1' level of course.
so I'm not for this in any way... but... yes, terrorists are not going to play fair here, which could be their downfall. Any transmission that couldn't be "backdoored" could be flagged and traced, leading to the bad guys. I know, that's easier said than done, and this backdoor is a dumb idea, and blah, blah, blah. Looking back, this post is terrible. Oh well, my $.02