And how do you manage, and this is a question, to keep the pipelines of the integer and FPU units filled all the time, so that the CPU is able to crank out the max amount of instructions-per-cycle?
Besides, it would be good to know in which situations is assembler better than high-level language. It's obvious that it's much better than C in some niches, but I would like to know which ones. OK, when "you need to talk to the machine", but, for instance, Linux kernel talks to the machine and it's mainly (only?) written in C.
And what is VU microcode? I can google it, but I would like some explanation in this context...
But isn't true that modern compilers generate code that is much more efficient than anything you can do by hand? And that taking into account pipelines, the two integer units, the FPU unit, low-level code rearranged by a compiler will very often be better? It's even more true for VLIW processors, such as IA-64.
It's probably true for microcontrollers, or for DSPs, for which good tools (especially optimizing C compilers) do not exist, or in general, for some niche applications, but I still think that ASM is relevant in the same sense that COBOL is: some people have no other way out than using it, but the general public is better of by sticking to high-level languages.
Nobody has noticed that this new alliance does not mention WAP anywhere, even as it supersedes the WAP forum? Does that finally mean the death of WAP? Or it was dead before that, and this only certifies its demise?
I haven't checked all countries, but my very own, Spain, is shown to have been at war with some (but not all) Latin American countries, and also Cuba and the US; if the Spanish-American war of 1898 accounts for that link, then I guess Philippines, who was lost to Spain in the same war, does also. Besides, if the Morocco link is due to the independence from Spain, in the 50's, then Equatorial Guinea should also be included in that link...
There are also other links I can't fathom: Australia against Thailand? Ah, yes, that was the famous III oz-thai war over the debut of "The Beach"... It would really help if it would be possible to access the data over which that graph is based...
Besides, as the old saying goes, "a swallow does not a summer make"; for every paying service that is created, or converted, thousands more free services are springing up everywhere...
Biological evolution is probably over; after all, we are quite well adapted to our environment; there might be some genetic drift, but it won't be noticed in a couple million years.
However, humankind is being used as a vehicle for memetic evolution; ideas evolve, reproduce, and flow from one mind to another; and it does not seem like this is going to stop. Ever.
Ok, seeing the answers to this message, maybe I didn't make my message clear enough. Paul Kennedy, in his book Rise and Fall of Great Powers, states that technology is determinant in the rise and, well, the fall of civilizations. Civilizations with higher technology normally overcome those with a lower technology, and any technological superiority is key in obtaining and maintaining superiority.
But technology is like water, you can't keep it in your hands. And besides, it works both ways: anybody can use it to its own profit.
If you can't keep anybody else from developing their own technology, you'll finally fall prey to them. The romans depended on their technology: roads, farming, construction, until the barbarians, using those same roads, arrived to Rome itself and captured it.
Come to think of ot, Sircam and other viri could be used by human resources and headhunters... they would dig up CVs out of My Document folders, and send them to a predetermined address; when they reached it, they could be filtered, screened, and converted into job offers...
Some people would be very happy. "I just got the 'wunderjobs' virus, now I'm waiting for a phone call "...
The article does not say that. It just says that searches are going to show premium content, as they did in NorthernLight (or they do), and you'll be able to pay for it. Would make no sense to pay per search, when google is doing a much better job (or the same, since yahoo is licensing google's engine).
Besides, google is also doing paid placement. Just try looking up XML, and you'll see a couple of squares peddling XML Spy . Only it shows very clearly what's paid and what's not.
but paying-for-retrieving-premium documents returned in a search. They are licensing NorthernLight, which already had that feature.
Not too bad, if you can afford it. It's better to see your search service return non-free documents, so that at least you know they exist, that not returning them at all.
What will happen to google, then? Yahoo already dumped altavista as search engine, then, I seem to remember, hotbot, and now Google? Will they be loosing this source of revenue?
In the old times of FidoNet, I shared a BBS with several students. I was teaching computer science 101 then. At 00:00 AM, 8 hours before the exam, I posted the exam to the BBS, in postscript (with the first line deleted, so that it was not inmediately recognizable as such), and compressed with zoo (not a very popular compressor, now and them). I put a rubbish name on top, so that, well, it wasn't only using zoo and ghostview. I sent a message to the 3 students telling them that I had posted the message in the file area, without telling them the name or anything else. They managed to "crack" it the next morning, 2 hours before the exam. The zoo part was easy (it includes "zoo" as the first letter in the file), the PS file a bit harder, and the hardest part, 10 years ago, was to find a program to print PS (download it thru fidonet and all the stuff).
They passed, but not with high marks; after all, they had only a couple of hours to prepare it. They would have been better off studying thru the night...
Right-on, there. Fuel cells are a energy-storing device, not a energy-producing device. Energy has still to be produced somewhere else, so that water can be hydrolized and hydrogen bottled. Still, if renewabe energies are used to produce hydrogens, it's a plus. In a way, it means that energy does not have to be taken by wires from one place to another, but just packed and delivered to your door, if you want. The "Stone" cells featured in Heinlein's "Friday" are finally a reality. But in that novel, if I remember correctly, energy is produced by massive solar centrals in the Sahara deser, or suchlike. Problem is, there's not much water there. You would need a combination of massive solar centrals + massive transportation of energy to the coast+ masive disruption of water to come anywhere near industrial size. And then, you would probably have a massive ecosystem disruption, too. As you said, there's no free lunch
They are rather the mainstream (in Spain)
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Unless you consider only "quality" anime. In fact, japanese animated series such as Pokemon and Digimon and Dragonball have been #1, at least in Spain, for a very long time. IN fact, that has brought over many manga, which have almost completely eliminated more classical comics, such as the ones published by DC and Marvel. Maybe many comics in fact deserved to be eliminated, but not all...
In fact, "quality" anime are only available for die-hard otakus here. Mangas, however, have no distribution problems.
As for XML, that's completely irrelevant. It's a good format for transferring data, but that's about it.
You can store hierarchial data in an XML file, but you can also use it to store purely relational data
or completely unstructured data (in some CDATA block).
That's simply not true. XML is good for representing data structures, and that makes it good for transferring information. But it's good as a (very basic) semantic model for data. And it will be even better as the steps of the Semantic Web are ascended.
You can use id atributes, and references to those IDs in other elements, to imitate relational DBs y XMLs. Of course, it's not "natural", but it can be done
If people does not have to care whether it's got Linux, PalmOS or symbian, that is, if it works well enough that people take it for whatever it is, disregarding the OS it's running.
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And how do you manage, and this is a question, to keep the pipelines of the integer and FPU units filled all the time, so that the CPU is able to crank out the max amount of instructions-per-cycle?
Besides, it would be good to know in which situations is assembler better than high-level language. It's obvious that it's much better than C in some niches, but I would like to know which ones. OK, when "you need to talk to the machine", but, for instance, Linux kernel talks to the machine and it's mainly (only?) written in C.
And what is VU microcode? I can google it, but I would like some explanation in this context...
But isn't true that modern compilers generate code that is much more efficient than anything you can do by hand? And that taking into account pipelines, the two integer units, the FPU unit, low-level code rearranged by a compiler will very often be better? It's even more true for VLIW processors, such as IA-64.
It's probably true for microcontrollers, or for DSPs, for which good tools (especially optimizing C compilers) do not exist, or in general, for some niche applications, but I still think that ASM is relevant in the same sense that COBOL is: some people have no other way out than using it, but the general public is better of by sticking to high-level languages.
Didn't anybody see this note, that talks about news syndication from slashdot (that talks about this slashdot-branded section) Is the Forbes article part of the deal? Is this news item part of it?
Nobody has noticed that this new alliance does not mention WAP anywhere, even as it supersedes the WAP forum? Does that finally mean the death of WAP? Or it was dead before that, and this only certifies its demise?
I haven't checked all countries, but my very own, Spain, is shown to have been at war with some (but not all) Latin American countries, and also Cuba and the US; if the Spanish-American war of 1898 accounts for that link, then I guess Philippines, who was lost to Spain in the same war, does also. Besides, if the Morocco link is due to the independence from Spain, in the 50's, then Equatorial Guinea should also be included in that link...
There are also other links I can't fathom: Australia against Thailand? Ah, yes, that was the famous III oz-thai war over the debut of "The Beach"... It would really help if it would be possible to access the data over which that graph is based...
Besides, as the old saying goes, "a swallow does not a summer make"; for every paying service that is created, or converted, thousands more free services are springing up everywhere...
Is somebody testing the audience to see how would we react to a change of policy from slashdot?
Biological evolution is probably over; after all, we are quite well adapted to our environment; there might be some genetic drift, but it won't be noticed in a couple million years.
However, humankind is being used as a vehicle for memetic evolution; ideas evolve, reproduce, and flow from one mind to another; and it does not seem like this is going to stop. Ever.
Ok, seeing the answers to this message, maybe I didn't make my message clear enough. Paul Kennedy, in his book Rise and Fall of Great Powers, states that technology is determinant in the rise and, well, the fall of civilizations. Civilizations with higher technology normally overcome those with a lower technology, and any technological superiority is key in obtaining and maintaining superiority.
But technology is like water, you can't keep it in your hands. And besides, it works both ways: anybody can use it to its own profit.
If you can't keep anybody else from developing their own technology, you'll finally fall prey to them. The romans depended on their technology: roads, farming, construction, until the barbarians, using those same roads, arrived to Rome itself and captured it.
Come to think of ot, Sircam and other viri could be used by human resources and headhunters... they would dig up CVs out of My Document folders, and send them to a predetermined address; when they reached it, they could be filtered, screened, and converted into job offers...
Some people would be very happy. "I just got the 'wunderjobs' virus, now I'm waiting for a phone call "...
By spamming everybody with the CVs (and any other doc, for that matter) in the "My Documents" folder... or was that another virus...
I would suggest a movie on Erdos or about Ramanujan.
And Kevin Spacey to play the first. And Ben Kingsley the second. He played Gandhi, after all...
and it will make you walk a bit more, or beep, when alcohol level is over or below a certain limit...
The article does not say that. It just says that searches are going to show premium content, as they did in NorthernLight (or they do), and you'll be able to pay for it. Would make no sense to pay per search, when google is doing a much better job (or the same, since yahoo is licensing google's engine).
Besides, google is also doing paid placement. Just try looking up XML, and you'll see a couple of squares peddling XML Spy . Only it shows very clearly what's paid and what's not.
but paying-for-retrieving-premium documents returned in a search. They are licensing NorthernLight, which already had that feature.
Not too bad, if you can afford it. It's better to see your search service return non-free documents, so that at least you know they exist, that not returning them at all.
What will happen to google, then? Yahoo already dumped altavista as search engine, then, I seem to remember, hotbot, and now Google? Will they be loosing this source of revenue?
In the old times of FidoNet, I shared a BBS with several students. I was teaching computer science 101 then. At 00:00 AM, 8 hours before the exam, I posted the exam to the BBS, in postscript (with the first line deleted, so that it was not inmediately recognizable as such), and compressed with zoo (not a very popular compressor, now and them). I put a rubbish name on top, so that, well, it wasn't only using zoo and ghostview. I sent a message to the 3 students telling them that I had posted the message in the file area, without telling them the name or anything else. They managed to "crack" it the next morning, 2 hours before the exam. The zoo part was easy (it includes "zoo" as the first letter in the file), the PS file a bit harder, and the hardest part, 10 years ago, was to find a program to print PS (download it thru fidonet and all the stuff).
They passed, but not with high marks; after all, they had only a couple of hours to prepare it. They would have been better off studying thru the night...
Right-on, there. Fuel cells are a energy-storing device, not a energy-producing device. Energy has still to be produced somewhere else, so that water can be hydrolized and hydrogen bottled. Still, if renewabe energies are used to produce hydrogens, it's a plus. In a way, it means that energy does not have to be taken by wires from one place to another, but just packed and delivered to your door, if you want. The "Stone" cells featured in Heinlein's "Friday" are finally a reality. But in that novel, if I remember correctly, energy is produced by massive solar centrals in the Sahara deser, or suchlike. Problem is, there's not much water there. You would need a combination of massive solar centrals + massive transportation of energy to the coast+ masive disruption of water to come anywhere near industrial size. And then, you would probably have a massive ecosystem disruption, too. As you said, there's no free lunch
Unless you consider only "quality" anime. In fact, japanese animated series such as Pokemon and Digimon and Dragonball have been #1, at least in Spain, for a very long time. IN fact, that has brought over many manga, which have almost completely eliminated more classical comics, such as the ones published by DC and Marvel. Maybe many comics in fact deserved to be eliminated, but not all...
In fact, "quality" anime are only available for die-hard otakus here. Mangas, however, have no distribution problems.
I seem to remember it was posted ages ago...
In any case, due to the use of proxies, the problem is not as bad.
Nothing but price, I guess. What's the cost of calling long-distance from Riyadh?
Of course, not that it matters if you have a petroleum pump in your backyard...
As for XML, that's completely irrelevant. It's a good format for transferring data, but that's about it.
You can store hierarchial data in an XML file, but you can also use it to store purely relational data
or completely unstructured data (in some CDATA block).
That's simply not true. XML is good for representing data structures, and that makes it good for transferring information. But it's good as a (very basic) semantic model for data. And it will be even better as the steps of the Semantic Web are ascended.
You can use id atributes, and references to those IDs in other elements, to imitate relational DBs y XMLs. Of course, it's not "natural", but it can be done
What does anybody mean by this? Intranets? Bad term if I ever saw one...
If this mean things that, well, are closed to robots, let them be the way they are. Work a bit more, go to the site itself, and do a search.
If it means things in DBs, how come you prove that you've extracted everything in the DB?
In any case, has anybody seen one of those "dark" addresses sometime?
If people does not have to care whether it's got Linux, PalmOS or symbian, that is, if it works well enough that people take it for whatever it is, disregarding the OS it's running.