OTOH, to use an open CPU design, most people would download it onto an FPGA, which involves proprietary software and hardware. But the CPU logic as such would be open source.
Then there is the cost of storing and making available the petabytes of data an experiment like ATLAS generates each year. Who is going to pay for the network, disks, servers etc to make this all available not to mention the development of a simple event format and the processing needed to generate and fill it.
Taxpayers? The same people who funded most of the research in the first place?
(Danny) Step one, we can have lots of fun
(Donnie) Step two, there's so much we can do
(Jordan) Step three, it's just you for me
(Joe) Step four, I can give you more
(Jon) Step five, don't you know that the time has arrived
In fact, it isn't even using MeeGo, but Mer, which spun off from MeeGo when it became obvious that Nokia was going to walk away and Intel was off to pursue other things.
Mer was originally a community version of Maemo. I used Mer on my N800 before the N900 was launched. The current Mer is a natural continuation of this project, even if they relaunched it in some sense.
Merged mining in bitcoin is well established. Is there a reason bitcoin miners couldn't forgo merging the NameCoin network, and opt for SETI instead?
Merged mining works for Namecoin because it does the same calculations as Bitcoin, namely SHA256 hashing. SETI@home does something different (at least a lot of Fourier transforms). Just because you have a powerful computer, does not mean you can run every possible calculation at once...
And this is why I have a 14 button fully programmable mouse. A single button press is way faster than making silly motions to instruct the system on what to do.
Ditto, having used Fluxbox for a decade. IMHO, the race for "the year of the Linux desktop" is futile because "desktop" seems to mean a Windows/Mac clone.
In fact, whenever I use Windows or Mac, I feel constrained by the toy UI, so what if the underlying OS is super fast and stable.
Agreed. IIRC, Clarke used the word "cosmonaut" for spacefarers of all Earthly origins in many of his later books. Of course, your typical American would never use a pinko communist term like that. Personally, I would rather be a traveler in cosmos than dive into the hot plasma of a fscking star.
On a related note, I think it is silly to translate the names of countries and other places -- we don't usually translate the names of people either. Transliteration is fine though, and some leeway must be allowed for pronunciation. One explanation for the sometimes odd translations I've heard is that we form close relations with the nearest part of the neighboring country, and start calling the entire nation by the name of the province (hence Eesti is called Viro by Finns.)
You now a days all the mouse manufacturers have switched to USB. Those with the old serial green connector that looks like S-video connector are quite rare
The green ones that look like S-video connectors are definitely not serial* in the sense of RS232, they are called PS/2 ports. Yes, I think I still have a real serial mouse somewhere around here, although not a 25-pin one like god intended, only this newfangled 9-pin variant. Plus I still use RS232 for hacking on FPGAs, although often TTL voltage levels instead of the real thing.
*As far as the pin count goes, all of USB, PS/2 and RS232 are serial. But only one of these is called the serial port.
In that case, it would mean the CPU is doing the optimization instead of the compiler. I am unfamiliar with that particular optimization, but it sounds like a good idea.
It's a good idea until someone comes up with a better optimization, and we are stuck with the old hardwired one.
On the other hand I imagine CPU designers have more freedom to experiment with new internal designs, when the translation layer presents a stable x86 ABI to the outside. Sure, it would be great to access the RISC internals directly, and optimize GCC etc. accordingly, but that would be a moving target.
Now here on Earth we rarely run into significant delays in communications caused by the speed of light - geostationary satellites are one example, and moonbounce is another.
I did parse "i386" as "32-bit x86, including i686". I haven't seen too much development on that in recent years -- can you even buy such a machine any more?
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OTOH, to use an open CPU design, most people would download it onto an FPGA, which involves proprietary software and hardware. But the CPU logic as such would be open source.
Then there is the cost of storing and making available the petabytes of data an experiment like ATLAS generates each year. Who is going to pay for the network, disks, servers etc to make this all available not to mention the development of a simple event format and the processing needed to generate and fill it.
Taxpayers? The same people who funded most of the research in the first place?
They want you to hack the Gibson.
Does Betteridge's Law of Headlines work?
(Danny) Step one, we can have lots of fun
(Donnie) Step two, there's so much we can do
(Jordan) Step three, it's just you for me
(Joe) Step four, I can give you more
(Jon) Step five, don't you know that the time has arrived
In fact, it isn't even using MeeGo, but Mer, which spun off from MeeGo when it became obvious that Nokia was going to walk away and Intel was off to pursue other things.
Mer was originally a community version of Maemo. I used Mer on my N800 before the N900 was launched. The current Mer is a natural continuation of this project, even if they relaunched it in some sense.
The N900 already has a compass of sorts, via its GPS receiver. For example GPSJinni can show the raw compass direction.
Merged mining in bitcoin is well established. Is there a reason bitcoin miners couldn't forgo merging the NameCoin network, and opt for SETI instead?
Merged mining works for Namecoin because it does the same calculations as Bitcoin, namely SHA256 hashing. SETI@home does something different (at least a lot of Fourier transforms). Just because you have a powerful computer, does not mean you can run every possible calculation at once...
And this is why I have a 14 button fully programmable mouse. A single button press is way faster than making silly motions to instruct the system on what to do.
This is why I have a keyboard.
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Life is complex. It has real and imaginary parts.
And once in a while, buy a /bin/csh from one of the ladies.
Ditto, having used Fluxbox for a decade. IMHO, the race for "the year of the Linux desktop" is futile because "desktop" seems to mean a Windows/Mac clone.
In fact, whenever I use Windows or Mac, I feel constrained by the toy UI, so what if the underlying OS is super fast and stable.
Think of the children.
If you extrapolate on human evolution (see Idiocracy), it will more likely be Schrödinger's lolcat. I'd say "I can haz Heizenburger?"
Sure, we'll just beat you into a nicely flowing pulp. Or packets -- would you prefer to be split as TCP or UDP?
I'd also like a .pony.
If you're already on Linux and using ffmpeg, why not encode it as .ogg?
Because it is already an mp3 stream, and re-encoding into another lossy format would make the quality even worse.
Agreed. IIRC, Clarke used the word "cosmonaut" for spacefarers of all Earthly origins in many of his later books. Of course, your typical American would never use a pinko communist term like that. Personally, I would rather be a traveler in cosmos than dive into the hot plasma of a fscking star.
On a related note, I think it is silly to translate the names of countries and other places -- we don't usually translate the names of people either. Transliteration is fine though, and some leeway must be allowed for pronunciation. One explanation for the sometimes odd translations I've heard is that we form close relations with the nearest part of the neighboring country, and start calling the entire nation by the name of the province (hence Eesti is called Viro by Finns.)
You now a days all the mouse manufacturers have switched to USB. Those with the old serial green connector that looks like S-video connector are quite rare
The green ones that look like S-video connectors are definitely not serial* in the sense of RS232, they are called PS/2 ports. Yes, I think I still have a real serial mouse somewhere around here, although not a 25-pin one like god intended, only this newfangled 9-pin variant. Plus I still use RS232 for hacking on FPGAs, although often TTL voltage levels instead of the real thing.
*As far as the pin count goes, all of USB, PS/2 and RS232 are serial. But only one of these is called the serial port.
OK, so I used the wrong term, but I hope it does not ruin my general point of a stable interface.
In that case, it would mean the CPU is doing the optimization instead of the compiler. I am unfamiliar with that particular optimization, but it sounds like a good idea.
It's a good idea until someone comes up with a better optimization, and we are stuck with the old hardwired one.
On the other hand I imagine CPU designers have more freedom to experiment with new internal designs, when the translation layer presents a stable x86 ABI to the outside. Sure, it would be great to access the RISC internals directly, and optimize GCC etc. accordingly, but that would be a moving target.
Now here on Earth we rarely run into significant delays in communications caused by the speed of light - geostationary satellites are one example, and moonbounce is another.
Don't forget microsecond trading.
I did parse "i386" as "32-bit x86, including i686". I haven't seen too much development on that in recent years -- can you even buy such a machine any more?
Bitrig will only target actively developing hardware and architectures such as i386 and amd64
How the fsck is i386 actively developing?