In that case, it is much more economical if you can upgrade the vector processor without throwing away a perfectly good CPU.
Is it? How much does that slot, bus, southbridge, etc., cost? CPUs are cheap! Certainly cheaper than most graphics cards. And the proximity to L1/L2 cache and computational units might make for some interesting synergy.
Assuming that you respect them. Or ever want to work with them again.
No, I don't think you can assume that. There are a lot of large companies out there and unless you track these people with Machiavellian precision, you'll never really know who's working for whom. And the new company might not (yet) realize what a jerk this person is, and ask their opinion about hiring you. ("Hey, you worked for JerkCo for awhile, do you remember this guy? Should we hire him?")
Nope, the tech industry is a small world and the more professional you act, especially in the face of unjust treatment, the better you'll do.
Blu Ray never gained momentum, for that matter, neither did HD DVD. However its looking more and more that HD DVD is slowly gaining momentum. Paramount Switch, 100$ HDDVD players.
HD DVD has stopped falling further and further behind, but they're not exactly in the same ballpark with Blu-Ray yet. Blu-Ray still outsells HD DVD 2 to 1, Blu-Ray discs tend to be cheaper, and the player cost doesn't seem to be that big a deciding factor right now. There are still more PS3's out there than all the other HD DVD or Blu-Ray players combined.
Who is this article trying to convince? One of the nice things about not having a centrally-planned economy is that a group of people who see value in something that others don't can do something about it. The only part of SETI that requires permission from some governing body is when they try to do ultra-precise observation using Arecibo. After that there's people donating spare computing cycles and lots of private individuals working on it with funds from other private entities, for the most part, isn't there?
I stopped playing CoH for the same reason. I got tired of keeping a second "gaming" Windows PC up to date with reasonable parts and software, and just starting using my home Mac full-time. Any game popular enough to matter gets ported anyway these days. That CoH isn't ported says more about CoH than it does about the Mac, IMHO.
The thing that makes Time Machine innovative is how information is retrieved, and the thing that enables that is the manner in which it's set up, the technologies it uses, and the APIs it offers.
The things Time Machine does especially well (the combination of which doesn't exist in any other product I'm aware of): * Do everything automatically, from handling the availability (or lack thereof) of the backup volume to configuring the backup system. It sets up incremental backups so you can restore something as of every hour for the last 24 hours, every day for the last month, and every month for the last year. * Track changes in the filesystem without having to poll, diff or stat modified times for every file (using MacOS X's built-in support for this feature). Thus, it doesn't thrash a drive looking for changes every hour but still gets everything. * Allow retrieval from within an application UI, so I don't have to leave Address Book, iPhoto, Finder, or whatever to use it. * All the end-user to easily query back through time. Type in a search string (within the application's own search UI) and zip back in time to the last time the results of that query change-- this in particular is something I'm not aware that any other backup solutions has ever done.
From the speech: "Today, we can bank by computer, shop by computer, and send letters by computer. Only a few companies and individuals use these services, but the number is growing and existing capabilities are limited."
I agree that no one could have predicted every detail, but the web was created, in part, with the money Gore drove through Congress to fund exactly this sort of capability. Considering the speech is from 1986, I think it's pretty prescient.
That's unclear from the article... the article says the race started at 8am and Ben came in at 2:50pm. Do you have an alternate link to different results?
No one predicted... the internet in the 80s as they are now, yet if someone told me in 1989 about Youtube on my hand held device I would have scoffed at it being too Star Trek like.
Not "no one"... at the risk of bringing up stupid falsehoods about who did or didn't claim to have invented what, here's part of the text of a speech Al Gore gave to congress in 1986:
Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to support the proposed National Science Foundation Authorization Act.
[...]
Both of these amendments seek new information on critical problems of today. The Computer Network Study Act is designed to answer critical questions on the needs of computer telecommunications systems over the next 15 years. For example, what are the future requirements for computers in terms of quantity and quality of data transmission, data security, and software compatibility? What equipment must be developed to take advantage of the high transmission rates offered by fiber optic systems?
Both systems designed to handle the special needs of supercomputers and systems designed to meet the needs of smaller research computers will be evaluated. The emphasis is on research computers, but the users of all computers will benefit from this study. Today, we can bank by computer, shop by computer, and send letters by computer. Only a few companies and individuals use these services, but the number is growing and existing capabilities are limited.
In order to cope with the explosion of computer use in the country, we must look to new ways to advance the state-of-the-art in telecommunications-- new ways to increase the speed and quality of the data transmission. Without these improvements, the telecommunication networks face data bottlenecks like those we face every day on our crowded highways.
The private sector is already aware of the need to evaluate and adopt new technologies. One promising technology is the development of fiver optic systems for voice and data transmission. Eventually we will see a system of fiber optic systems being installed nationwide.
America's highways transport people and materials across the country. Federal freeways connect with state highways which connect in turn with county roads and city streets. To transport data and ideas, we will need a telecommunications highway connecting users coast to coast, state to state, city to city. The study required in this amendment will identify the problems and opportunities the nation will face in establishing that highway.
The "open" comment quoted in the summary kind of implies that Microsoft is working on a port on a level playing field with the "open" folks. If you actually read the article, though, you find that the OLPC folks are actively working with Microsoft, sending them first-run hardware, and otherwise favoring Microsoft in order to get XP onto their system. That's not just "letting it be open", it's actively working towards getting a more closed OS onto the system.
Also, I vaguely recall a rumor that Apple offered MacOS X for free and it was declined, so I'm not entirely clear on OLPC's motives here.
Back when Amazon.com first opened, my first couple attempts to purchase from them were similar situations. I once ordered a PC Card network interface for my laptop. When it came, I opened the box and it was empty. To Amazon's credit, they sent me a new one without too much hassle (and an RMA for the empty box-- not sure why they wanted that). After another shipment never arrived and I got the wrong thing a different time, I stopped buying from them for a few years and they seem to have straightened things out in that time.
A more honest statement would be: "we can't hire enough skilled talent for the wages we want to pay."
And what determines those wages? A combination of "prevailing wages" and what customers are willing to pay the company for the employees' output. If you have employees that you pay more for than you can bill for, you're going to go out of business. And I think in some areas of the tech industry it's reached that point. So wages change slowly, while the tech industry changes fast. And "bubbles" of unusually high wages or high engineer availability form, then those brought up during the bubble have misplaced expectations.
It's only released for the desktop and laptop. The handheld form factor machines are still locked (for now), but they do share the kernel and BSD layers, AFAIK, so would benefit from work done on the desktop and laptop.
I didn't say it wasn't. But NT 3.5 ran almost no games of its day and DEFINITELY wasn't a consumer OS. Real multi-tasking and protected memory was implemented by UNIX a whole lot earlier than 1992 and I didn't include that one, either.
I read about the abortion theory, but there has been a lot of documentation recently showing that making abortions illegal doesn't significantly decrease their prevalence, just their safety. That would seem to contradict the "unwanted babies are being born less often" theory.
There are a lot of things that have happened in the last 40 years that could be linked with childhood well-being. Increases in welfare spending, immunizations, child-services standards, and a host of other social programs.
Widespread use of lead paint is a bad thing, as is the widespread use of leaded gas. Lead's been conclusively shown to be a carcinogen and something you want to avoid if you can. That said, unless you eat the stuff or are exposed to minute amounts in aerosol form for a prolonged period of time, it's probably not going to do a whole lot of damage.
To wit, my understanding is one of the most common sources of lead poisoning in older houses is painted window frames that scrape some lead dust off each time the window opens.
There are tradeoffs to everything. Considering processor capabilities and RAM costs in those days, one could argue that the early 80's would have been too soon to put memory protection and pre-emption into a consumer OS. The Amiga did pre-emption by the mid-80's, but for all practical purposes the Mac MultiFinder worked pretty well. And no one did much protected memory in a consumer OS until the mid 90's (although MacOS had the no-execute bit set for data and the no-modify for code pretty early there.) Although Windows95 did it to a limited degree, it really wasn't until around 2000 with MacOS X and Windows 2000 that both protected memory and pre-emption really hit the mainstream consumer-land in a way that home users could run all their software and games on it.
And I'm actually really happy that the Mac never had IRQ's, ISA, or a BIOS, so yeah, it was great Apple wasn't Intel then and it is great that Apple's with Intel now.
Yeah, where are the lawyers in all this?? If this had been Apple, we'd have a $40M class-action suit already for "failure to promptly access pr0n" or something.
It wouldn't be a bad idea for them to re-sync WinCE, XBoxOS and Vista a bit before going too far forward. I have no insider info, but my understanding from reading Ars and such is that the XBox is a branch of NT3 (with the XBox360 continuing the branch) and WinCE is more or less from scratch with the APIs bolted on. Approaching development like Apple does with one kernel and a host of drivers and user-space options targeted at embedded, desktop, and server configurations seems like it would be a more sustainable model.
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In that case, it is much more economical if you can upgrade the vector processor without throwing away a perfectly good CPU.
Is it? How much does that slot, bus, southbridge, etc., cost? CPUs are cheap! Certainly cheaper than most graphics cards. And the proximity to L1/L2 cache and computational units might make for some interesting synergy.
One could argue that the place for graphics cards is on the CPU. What else are you going to do with all that extra silicon real estate?
Your statement is so wrong and such a non-sequitor, that I assume you accidentally replied to the wrong article.
Assuming that you respect them. Or ever want to work with them again.
No, I don't think you can assume that. There are a lot of large companies out there and unless you track these people with Machiavellian precision, you'll never really know who's working for whom. And the new company might not (yet) realize what a jerk this person is, and ask their opinion about hiring you. ("Hey, you worked for JerkCo for awhile, do you remember this guy? Should we hire him?")
Nope, the tech industry is a small world and the more professional you act, especially in the face of unjust treatment, the better you'll do.
"Alas, the facts have a well known liberal bias"
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Blu Ray never gained momentum, for that matter, neither did HD DVD. However its looking more and more that HD DVD is slowly gaining momentum. Paramount Switch, 100$ HDDVD players.
HD DVD has stopped falling further and further behind, but they're not exactly in the same ballpark with Blu-Ray yet. Blu-Ray still outsells HD DVD 2 to 1, Blu-Ray discs tend to be cheaper, and the player cost doesn't seem to be that big a deciding factor right now. There are still more PS3's out there than all the other HD DVD or Blu-Ray players combined.
Who is this article trying to convince? One of the nice things about not having a centrally-planned economy is that a group of people who see value in something that others don't can do something about it. The only part of SETI that requires permission from some governing body is when they try to do ultra-precise observation using Arecibo. After that there's people donating spare computing cycles and lots of private individuals working on it with funds from other private entities, for the most part, isn't there?
I stopped playing CoH for the same reason. I got tired of keeping a second "gaming" Windows PC up to date with reasonable parts and software, and just starting using my home Mac full-time. Any game popular enough to matter gets ported anyway these days. That CoH isn't ported says more about CoH than it does about the Mac, IMHO.
The thing that makes Time Machine innovative is how information is retrieved, and the thing that enables that is the manner in which it's set up, the technologies it uses, and the APIs it offers.
The things Time Machine does especially well (the combination of which doesn't exist in any other product I'm aware of):
* Do everything automatically, from handling the availability (or lack thereof) of the backup volume to configuring the backup system. It sets up incremental backups so you can restore something as of every hour for the last 24 hours, every day for the last month, and every month for the last year.
* Track changes in the filesystem without having to poll, diff or stat modified times for every file (using MacOS X's built-in support for this feature). Thus, it doesn't thrash a drive looking for changes every hour but still gets everything.
* Allow retrieval from within an application UI, so I don't have to leave Address Book, iPhoto, Finder, or whatever to use it.
* All the end-user to easily query back through time. Type in a search string (within the application's own search UI) and zip back in time to the last time the results of that query change-- this in particular is something I'm not aware that any other backup solutions has ever done.
From the speech: "Today, we can bank by computer, shop by computer, and send letters by computer. Only a few companies and individuals use these services, but the number is growing and existing capabilities are limited."
I agree that no one could have predicted every detail, but the web was created, in part, with the money Gore drove through Congress to fund exactly this sort of capability. Considering the speech is from 1986, I think it's pretty prescient.
That's unclear from the article... the article says the race started at 8am and Ben came in at 2:50pm. Do you have an alternate link to different results?
No one predicted ... the internet in the 80s as they are now, yet if someone told me in 1989 about Youtube on my hand held device I would have scoffed at it being too Star Trek like.
Not "no one"... at the risk of bringing up stupid falsehoods about who did or didn't claim to have invented what, here's part of the text of a speech Al Gore gave to congress in 1986:
Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to support the proposed National Science Foundation Authorization Act.
[...]
Both of these amendments seek new information on critical problems of today. The Computer Network Study Act is designed to answer critical questions on the needs of computer telecommunications systems over the next 15 years. For example, what are the future requirements for computers in terms of quantity and quality of data transmission, data security, and software compatibility? What equipment must be developed to take advantage of the high transmission rates offered by fiber optic systems?
Both systems designed to handle the special needs of supercomputers and systems designed to meet the needs of smaller research computers will be evaluated. The emphasis is on research computers, but the users of all computers will benefit from this study. Today, we can bank by computer, shop by computer, and send letters by computer. Only a few companies and individuals use these services, but the number is growing and existing capabilities are limited.
In order to cope with the explosion of computer use in the country, we must look to new ways to advance the state-of-the-art in telecommunications-- new ways to increase the speed and quality of the data transmission. Without these improvements, the telecommunication networks face data bottlenecks like those we face every day on our crowded highways.
The private sector is already aware of the need to evaluate and adopt new technologies. One promising technology is the development of fiver optic systems for voice and data transmission. Eventually we will see a system of fiber optic systems being installed nationwide.
America's highways transport people and materials across the country. Federal freeways connect with state highways which connect in turn with county roads and city streets. To transport data and ideas, we will need a telecommunications highway connecting users coast to coast, state to state, city to city. The study required in this amendment will identify the problems and opportunities the nation will face in establishing that highway.
[...]
It's amazing that you accept the ambiguity of the dating technique as just a part of the scientific process. And you call Ginenthal a pseudoscientist?
Ambiguity *is* part of the scientific process. Only a pseudoscientist is certain enough to say otherwise.
The "open" comment quoted in the summary kind of implies that Microsoft is working on a port on a level playing field with the "open" folks. If you actually read the article, though, you find that the OLPC folks are actively working with Microsoft, sending them first-run hardware, and otherwise favoring Microsoft in order to get XP onto their system. That's not just "letting it be open", it's actively working towards getting a more closed OS onto the system.
Also, I vaguely recall a rumor that Apple offered MacOS X for free and it was declined, so I'm not entirely clear on OLPC's motives here.
Back when Amazon.com first opened, my first couple attempts to purchase from them were similar situations. I once ordered a PC Card network interface for my laptop. When it came, I opened the box and it was empty. To Amazon's credit, they sent me a new one without too much hassle (and an RMA for the empty box-- not sure why they wanted that). After another shipment never arrived and I got the wrong thing a different time, I stopped buying from them for a few years and they seem to have straightened things out in that time.
A more honest statement would be: "we can't hire enough skilled talent for the wages we want to pay."
And what determines those wages? A combination of "prevailing wages" and what customers are willing to pay the company for the employees' output. If you have employees that you pay more for than you can bill for, you're going to go out of business. And I think in some areas of the tech industry it's reached that point. So wages change slowly, while the tech industry changes fast. And "bubbles" of unusually high wages or high engineer availability form, then those brought up during the bubble have misplaced expectations.
It's only released for the desktop and laptop. The handheld form factor machines are still locked (for now), but they do share the kernel and BSD layers, AFAIK, so would benefit from work done on the desktop and laptop.
I didn't say it wasn't. But NT 3.5 ran almost no games of its day and DEFINITELY wasn't a consumer OS. Real multi-tasking and protected memory was implemented by UNIX a whole lot earlier than 1992 and I didn't include that one, either.
I read about the abortion theory, but there has been a lot of documentation recently showing that making abortions illegal doesn't significantly decrease their prevalence, just their safety. That would seem to contradict the "unwanted babies are being born less often" theory.
There are a lot of things that have happened in the last 40 years that could be linked with childhood well-being. Increases in welfare spending, immunizations, child-services standards, and a host of other social programs.
Widespread use of lead paint is a bad thing, as is the widespread use of leaded gas. Lead's been conclusively shown to be a carcinogen and something you want to avoid if you can. That said, unless you eat the stuff or are exposed to minute amounts in aerosol form for a prolonged period of time, it's probably not going to do a whole lot of damage.
To wit, my understanding is one of the most common sources of lead poisoning in older houses is painted window frames that scrape some lead dust off each time the window opens.
There are tradeoffs to everything. Considering processor capabilities and RAM costs in those days, one could argue that the early 80's would have been too soon to put memory protection and pre-emption into a consumer OS. The Amiga did pre-emption by the mid-80's, but for all practical purposes the Mac MultiFinder worked pretty well. And no one did much protected memory in a consumer OS until the mid 90's (although MacOS had the no-execute bit set for data and the no-modify for code pretty early there.) Although Windows95 did it to a limited degree, it really wasn't until around 2000 with MacOS X and Windows 2000 that both protected memory and pre-emption really hit the mainstream consumer-land in a way that home users could run all their software and games on it.
And I'm actually really happy that the Mac never had IRQ's, ISA, or a BIOS, so yeah, it was great Apple wasn't Intel then and it is great that Apple's with Intel now.
Apple's entire kernel and UNIX layer are open source. Go ahead and work with them on it without fear.
So, I paid for [a locked version of] XP, and I [stole an unlocked version of] XP. I'm happy.
I edited your last statement for accuracy.
If you don't like their rules, don't play their game.
Sounds prime for a class action.
Yeah, where are the lawyers in all this?? If this had been Apple, we'd have a $40M class-action suit already for "failure to promptly access pr0n" or something.
It wouldn't be a bad idea for them to re-sync WinCE, XBoxOS and Vista a bit before going too far forward. I have no insider info, but my understanding from reading Ars and such is that the XBox is a branch of NT3 (with the XBox360 continuing the branch) and WinCE is more or less from scratch with the APIs bolted on. Approaching development like Apple does with one kernel and a host of drivers and user-space options targeted at embedded, desktop, and server configurations seems like it would be a more sustainable model.