You still have a flash "box" on the page... but in this case it's probably a good thing. You see, I've run into a few pages that use this, but I have flash disabled until I click on the box otherwise a page with many Flash plugins (and I've run into some with dozens of the things) more or less locks up my browser for minutes until they all start up.
Also, isn't Actionscript another implementation of ECMAscript?
I agree, plugins get a bad rap, but the biggest problem with plugins is that they are restricted to a little box in the browser window. What is needed is not a better Javascript, but a better way of doing plugins. What he's talking about, I think (correct me if I'm wrong), is this: let a web page have a Java component (for example) that doesn't run in a little box... but instead runs in the background and updates the page, hiding and showing components, triggering little bits of javascript glue, and generally doing the heavy lifting without having any graphical elements of its own...
I don't really understand the point of using a MS Backed Linux/Mono/Moonlight myself. Why not choose the original? Aka Windows?
UNIX may be greener. In many cases you require far fewer servers to provide the same level of service, even if you can virtualize the Windows environment, and for data centers where power is the main cost (and increasing number of them) that adds up fast.
Given legal and licensing issues, it makes sense to work around this issue with a RISC / VLIW core (and NVidia has already mastered this) with a JIT or x86 bytecode interpreter at the front end.
Intel (and everyone else) has been doing this, to an increasing degree, since the 486. It's one reason for the long long Pentium pipeline.
Transmeta made the JIT translator software. That turned out to be not such a good idea, with one core trying to execute translated code and translate new code at the same time. With multiple cores (and nVidia has a lot of experience with heavy parallelism like that) this could actually work well.
My comment here was idle speculation along these lines. But apparently nVidia has been speculating less idly: they've licensed the Transmeta technology.
OK, I'm officially boggled. It just seemed to me like a logical way for nVidia, with their experience in parallel processing, to do it. I didn't expect the universe to take me seriously.
Oh, I wasn't thinking of multiple sockets. I was thinking of multiple cores on a single chip... like the multi-core x86 but taking advantage of the simpler instruction decoding of RISC/VLIW CPUs to reduce the size of the individual cores... you'd presumably get more CPU cores from the same transistor budget, and dedicate N/2 (or fewer) to decoding. The actual interpreter would be loaded right at the beginning of the boot process from a conventional PROM, in a multi-chip module or even in a separate chip on the motherboard.
They could pull a Transmeta and build a RISC/VLIW core or six and package it with an x86 interpreter or JIT translator, basically do the front end in software instead of hardware. Crusoe was using the same core to do the translation and execution, but with a multi-core CPU that pipelines the translator and interpreter on separate cores they could end up with quite a nice design.
I agree but how has the same thing not backfired on apple?
You tell me... because, well, it hasn't backfired on Apple. Even most of the criticisms about Apple's ads has been like yours: "some of the ads are wrong" or "they're not making the best points". Not "you gotta be kidding" (or even "you gotta be ****ing kidding"), which is what Microsoft gets... google for "microsoft folgers" for an example.
I think it's because, well, there's a germ of truth in most of the Apple ads, even the worst (and there's ones I hate myself). Microsoft doesn't seem able to tell the difference between the truth and their fantasies, Apple seems to limit the complete bullshit to Jobs' occasional tall tales in his keynotes.
Well, back to my original example, replace "the Houston Symphony" with "The Mucky Duck" (which happens to be down the street from my colo, and I probably should catch a show next time I go down there). Does it make more sense?
So where are all the Microsoft-purchased ads slamming the iPhone's inability to even be a phone, while Windows Mobile phones get shit done?
"Hi, my name's Peter, and I have a T-Mobile Windows Powered Phone."
"HI PETER!"
"I'm using a $50 Nokia and a refurbished Clie, because my Windows Powered phone hangs if I try to place a call while using Streets and Trips, and I've had Activesync fail to recover my backed up data after a crash. I can't rely on it. I'm... such a backslider."
Download the spreadsheets. If someone has a copy of the one from Google's cache and can do a raw text search on it instead of just looking at the rendered version it might be possible to determine who removed Kexin's entry thanks to Microsoft's leaky file formats.
That doesn't mean that Google modified the cache, it just means that the cached version has been modified.
Recall that Microsoft Office applications do not always remove deleted data, and Google's search engine operates on the raw data in a file (which means that Google will return search results that seem less than obvious if you just look at a rendered copy of the file... something search engine spammers find handy). That means if someone in China deleted that row from the spreadsheet, it would still show up in Google's search.
Houston's public funding for the arts is negligible. The Symphony wouldn't be in business if it depended on public funding, particularly after the recent floods, and many arts institutions in Houston are entirely privately funded.
But really, I kind of set a trap here. Oh, it was accidental: I mentioned the Symphony because that's the kind of event I go to, and I'll happily admit that I'm an outlier in that respect. Because this is not really about "public funding" versus "private funding". It's about "performances" versus "recordings": you can't "pirate" a performance, just a recording of it. On top of that, most of the arts and culture (including pretty much all of the arts and culture that the RIAA members are involved in and that Griffin is talking about) is not "fine art", it's popular art... and performances by popular artists are not only privately funded, they're also profitable.
If the profits from recorded music dropped to zero, many artists would see little if any difference in their income, and some would likely see an increase as the quantity of new recorded music dropped, and attendance at shows increased.
In my opinion Perl is still too often listed on Monster and other job sites. It's an ugly, messy language designed by a linguist with an unfortunate idea that the fact that you call something a "programming language" means it should work like a human language.
Unfortunately the popular alternatives are not a whole lot better. But it's probably best if I stopped now, lest I be here all day.
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You still have a flash "box" on the page... but in this case it's probably a good thing. You see, I've run into a few pages that use this, but I have flash disabled until I click on the box otherwise a page with many Flash plugins (and I've run into some with dozens of the things) more or less locks up my browser for minutes until they all start up.
Also, isn't Actionscript another implementation of ECMAscript?
If it's patented there is a patent application somewhere that describes how you do it.
So where is the patent?
I agree, plugins get a bad rap, but the biggest problem with plugins is that they are restricted to a little box in the browser window. What is needed is not a better Javascript, but a better way of doing plugins. What he's talking about, I think (correct me if I'm wrong), is this: let a web page have a Java component (for example) that doesn't run in a little box... but instead runs in the background and updates the page, hiding and showing components, triggering little bits of javascript glue, and generally doing the heavy lifting without having any graphical elements of its own...
I don't really understand the point of using a MS Backed Linux/Mono/Moonlight myself. Why not choose the original? Aka Windows?
UNIX may be greener. In many cases you require far fewer servers to provide the same level of service, even if you can virtualize the Windows environment, and for data centers where power is the main cost (and increasing number of them) that adds up fast.
What that means, I guess, is that the Excel team are more competent than the Word team.
Oh, sorry, I should have checked oncoming traffic before posting. :)
As WOPR says, "What a strange game. The only way to win is not to play."
Given legal and licensing issues, it makes sense to work around this issue with a RISC / VLIW core (and NVidia has already mastered this) with a JIT or x86 bytecode interpreter at the front end.
Intel (and everyone else) has been doing this, to an increasing degree, since the 486. It's one reason for the long long Pentium pipeline.
Transmeta made the JIT translator software. That turned out to be not such a good idea, with one core trying to execute translated code and translate new code at the same time. With multiple cores (and nVidia has a lot of experience with heavy parallelism like that) this could actually work well.
My comment here was idle speculation along these lines. But apparently nVidia has been speculating less idly: they've licensed the Transmeta technology.
OK, combining this bit of free association and the followup noting that nVidia licensed Transmeta's tech... how about an embedded processor with an nVidia GPU implementing x86 using JIT translation and CUDA for acceleration?
OK, I'm officially boggled. It just seemed to me like a logical way for nVidia, with their experience in parallel processing, to do it. I didn't expect the universe to take me seriously.
Oh, I wasn't thinking of multiple sockets. I was thinking of multiple cores on a single chip... like the multi-core x86 but taking advantage of the simpler instruction decoding of RISC/VLIW CPUs to reduce the size of the individual cores... you'd presumably get more CPU cores from the same transistor budget, and dedicate N/2 (or fewer) to decoding. The actual interpreter would be loaded right at the beginning of the boot process from a conventional PROM, in a multi-chip module or even in a separate chip on the motherboard.
How many generations of any document is kept in cache by Google?
Only one, apparently.
Well, yeh, I was just pointing out that there was no danger of getting some Microserf asking you "would you like VBscript with that?"
They could pull a Transmeta and build a RISC/VLIW core or six and package it with an x86 interpreter or JIT translator, basically do the front end in software instead of hardware. Crusoe was using the same core to do the translation and execution, but with a multi-core CPU that pipelines the translator and interpreter on separate cores they could end up with quite a nice design.
I agree but how has the same thing not backfired on apple?
You tell me... because, well, it hasn't backfired on Apple. Even most of the criticisms about Apple's ads has been like yours: "some of the ads are wrong" or "they're not making the best points". Not "you gotta be kidding" (or even "you gotta be ****ing kidding"), which is what Microsoft gets... google for "microsoft folgers" for an example.
I think it's because, well, there's a germ of truth in most of the Apple ads, even the worst (and there's ones I hate myself). Microsoft doesn't seem able to tell the difference between the truth and their fantasies, Apple seems to limit the complete bullshit to Jobs' occasional tall tales in his keynotes.
Well, back to my original example, replace "the Houston Symphony" with "The Mucky Duck" (which happens to be down the street from my colo, and I probably should catch a show next time I go down there). Does it make more sense?
...which is why people are only looking at the search cache.
And you can't pull the spreadsheets from the cache?
Microsoft is reselling Novell support.
So where are all the Microsoft-purchased ads slamming the iPhone's inability to even be a phone, while Windows Mobile phones get shit done?
"Hi, my name's Peter, and I have a T-Mobile Windows Powered Phone."
"HI PETER!"
"I'm using a $50 Nokia and a refurbished Clie, because my Windows Powered phone hangs if I try to place a call while using Streets and Trips, and I've had Activesync fail to recover my backed up data after a crash. I can't rely on it. I'm... such a backslider."
"ANYTHING ELSE?"
"I installed Windows XP on my Vista laptop."
"THANK YOU FOR SHARING, PETER!"
Download the spreadsheets. If someone has a copy of the one from Google's cache and can do a raw text search on it instead of just looking at the rendered version it might be possible to determine who removed Kexin's entry thanks to Microsoft's leaky file formats.
That doesn't mean that Google modified the cache, it just means that the cached version has been modified.
Recall that Microsoft Office applications do not always remove deleted data, and Google's search engine operates on the raw data in a file (which means that Google will return search results that seem less than obvious if you just look at a rendered copy of the file... something search engine spammers find handy). That means if someone in China deleted that row from the spreadsheet, it would still show up in Google's search.
Houston's public funding for the arts is negligible. The Symphony wouldn't be in business if it depended on public funding, particularly after the recent floods, and many arts institutions in Houston are entirely privately funded.
But really, I kind of set a trap here. Oh, it was accidental: I mentioned the Symphony because that's the kind of event I go to, and I'll happily admit that I'm an outlier in that respect. Because this is not really about "public funding" versus "private funding". It's about "performances" versus "recordings": you can't "pirate" a performance, just a recording of it. On top of that, most of the arts and culture (including pretty much all of the arts and culture that the RIAA members are involved in and that Griffin is talking about) is not "fine art", it's popular art... and performances by popular artists are not only privately funded, they're also profitable.
If the profits from recorded music dropped to zero, many artists would see little if any difference in their income, and some would likely see an increase as the quantity of new recorded music dropped, and attendance at shows increased.
The last thing I want is closed source shit infesting my linux install. [rant rant rant]
INVIZIBL MARKETSHAER! LOL!
Linux has a driver ABI?
In my opinion Perl is still too often listed on Monster and other job sites. It's an ugly, messy language designed by a linguist with an unfortunate idea that the fact that you call something a "programming language" means it should work like a human language.
Unfortunately the popular alternatives are not a whole lot better. But it's probably best if I stopped now, lest I be here all day.