He's a god damned idiot. Or an attention whore. Or both.
Like him or not, Murdoch is not dumb. Nor, for someone who owns upwards of 175 newspapers, several TV networks, and a direct broadcast satellite system, does he indulge in much self-publicity.
Current evidence suggests otherwise. He must think Google is stupid enough to just pay him for... nothing?
if you make a, oh you know, not a shitty game in the first place, that money part is not an issue.
Indie devs happen to make serious money that way too, as an easy aside world of goo and gratuitous space battles are two games that have been successful and done by indie developers.
Dragon Age Origins is ANYTHING but a shitty game. It's great. The DLC is more a fuck you to glorified video game Pawn shops like Gamestop, as you are given it for free if you buy the game new but have to pay $15 if you buy it used. Since Gamestop is rather evil, I'm all for this.
couldn't some group of americans sue the shit out of dumbass companies who use misleading marketing - calling something with a cap "unlimited" should result in their whole marketing department fired and any manager who approved it receiving hefty financial fine.
That's how it works in Europe. Unfortunately, the US let Corporations take over years ago.
ProTip and important reminder: Comcast has been overselling their network for years now, and EVERY area is in a "Near Congestion State" at all times by design.
Then people should be paying 70% or 50%. Or they should be required to advertise as 70% or 50%. You know, a disclaimer. "Warning: You are not allowed to actually use your 5 megabit Cable connection, doing so will cause us to automatically screw you over in a way that would do the Insurance Industry Proud."
Of course, it's even better -- I'm sure that it's written vaguely enough that the total amount of changes the guys on the Comcast servers will need to do to implement this change is nill.
Anyway, I consider this is a good thing, it'll probably increase goodput (less outdated, duplicate packets, preferring "closer" networks).
It would, if Bittorrent et all weren't designed to break TCP's regulating. By default uTorrent starts up with like 800 max connections at a time. The TCPIP spec was never really designed to handle this kind of shotgun flooding. The Bittorrent spec is designed to not care about fragmentation, QoS, et all. It is designed to break through college dorm QoS throttling, which is why this kinda discussion is kinda amusing.
If you upgrade Windows on top of another installation you are in for a bad time.
I went from Vista OEM Business to 7 Ultimate RC1. I started the install around 10 PM and it finished around Noon the next day. Everything's fine except for the start menu, which has basically crapped itself -- it was showing both all programs and my user programs, so I'd havel ike 2 "Accessories" folders. At least, was. Now the entire folder is empty. I can explore to it, but the start menu itself doesn't appear.
Seriously, a good chunk of these missing features (PDF support, for example) are in the Kindle DX, and could be backported to the Kindle 2 with a firmware / OS update. One I would wager is being approved right... about... now.
Do you understand the SIZE of the numbers we're talking about here?
2^128 == 3.4e38
Number of atoms on Earth is ~1.33e50
Suppose we're true bad-asses, and we create a RAM that can store 8 bits PER ATOM. Wow. We would need 3.4e38 atoms to store a 128-bit address space. Considering that as a fraction of Earth's mass, this RAM will have a mass of about 15 trillion kilograms.
I don't know about you but I am not sure where the fuck I would store a stick of RAM that weighs 15 trillion kilograms.
I know it's cute and everything to hearken back to the "Nobody would ever need more than 640k" days but get a brain and run the numbers, ok?
Except that we have no idea what computing is going to be like in 20 years. And that RAM is not the only thing that uses those address lines. That's why 32 bit memory addressing is such a disaster -- Put 4 gigs in a 32 bit system and you'll actually get about 3.5 gigs out of it, give or take, thanks to addresses being needed elsewhere.
Yes, I can't forsee using 3.4e38 bits of RAM. But then again, show me an iPhone 10, 20 years ago and I would have guessed it was technology from 2100, not 2010.
I guess what I'm saying is we can't predict what the IT teams of 2025-2050 are going to need, so why not engineer it (apparently quite literally) future proof? It's not like it's that much extra engineering.
You might want to consider breaking your, er, writing up into paragraphs. If you want anyone to read your posts, anyway.
Holy crap, that was a post? I thought I had some line noise there for a bit. Which would be darned impressive since I'm on DSL nowada^!51 66666FF +++ NO CARRIER
None of the linked articles say that the 128 bits is for the filesystem only, but I still believe you're right:
Making the entire os 128-bit would simply waste a _lot_ of memory, for zero real gain. (Rather the opposite: A larger working set always leads to slower code.)
Having 128 bits available for filesystem/storage makes it quite feasible to have globally unique addresses for everything, across huge populations of machines.
This has been done before, afair IBM has used a 128 (or 129!) bit address space for their AS400 platform, where everything is memory mapped.
I.e. there is no visible file system, you just access objects by address (which is really a handle).
I believe Amazon's cloud storage is similar, in that the only way to access a blob of data is via a 128-bit handle.
Terje
Since Win8 / Win9 won't be out for 5/10 years...
Why am I getting flashbacks to a discussion that people had back in the 8 bit days?
"Making the entire os 32-bit would simply waste a _lot_ of memory, for zero real gain. (Rather the opposite: A larger working set always leads to slower code.)... Having 32 bits available for filesystem/storage makes it quite feasible to have globally unique addresses for everything, across huge populations of machines."
I never heard this discussion, but you know it happened. Probably almost verbatim.
Vernor absolutely has the right to resell his CD, due to a well-known section of copyright law known as first-sale doctrine.
Except that Autodesk is claiming that they never sold him anything, they sold him the right to use it, which is an important difference. The difference is an explicit attempt to bypass consumer protections such as first-sale doctrine; hopefully the Judge sees that and throws it out.
And in other news, a new law was finally passed making it legal to beat fraudsters to death with copies of their SEC filings.
RTFA:
This company has already built a facility, and has already landed a contract for the fuel. They are using a well known technology, just with a slightly different take (IR instead of chemical catalysts).
This doesn't exactly look like vaporware to me.
So the hydrocarbons come off as a liquid?
*rimshot*
Thanks all, I'll be here all week! Remember to tip your waitress!
I upgraded a well used Dell OEM Vista Business install to 7 RC1 Ultimate. I started around 6 PM and it finished right after I woke up at 8 AM the next day.
Machine was a slightly upgraded Dell Inspiron 531 -- new PSU, GPU, and 4 Gigs of RAM.
Britain was involved in the settlement and creation of modern-day Israel. Israelis and Palestinians often kill each other. It's not a real connection but I think this is what he's going for.
So in other words, he's not, and the troll above is, well, trolling?
You will note that site is Australian, a country that cannot use Kindles.
Are those books available like that in the relevant countries?
The books are in the 'public domain' in Australia and all have been prepared by volunteers.
No. The book is still under copyright in the United States, as it was written after Mickey Mouse was created (the unofficial cutoff point for permanent copyright in the US).
That was the problem. A user in Canada uploaded the book, as it was copyright free in saner ports, and US customers were buying it illegally.
Except I don't get a huge popup warning every time I go to Google.com or a splash page saying something like:
"WARNING: YOUR GOOGLE EXPERIENCE IS SUB-OPTIMAL AND YOU ARE AT RISK OF INTERNET VIRUSES AND PERMANENT COMPUTER DAMAGE. PLEASE INSTALL THIS WINDOWS SECURITY UPDATE: CHROME.EXE TODAY!"
No, but if you visit in IE, you do get a big Chrome banner ad on the Google home page.
There's a BIG difference between "Hey, use Chrome" and "Hey, If you don't stop using IE, aliens will eat your firstborn".
One is targeted advertising (and I question even that, considering as I use Chrome and I get the same banner), the other is FUD.
A Netbook is cheaper, faster, and designed to run it. Why pay Amazon for an overpriced specialty item then make it do something it was never intended to do? I can't imagine the thing can still access the 3G network for free (the author replied "YES BUT DON'T DO THAT" to someone who asked)...
And, yes, I know... "because we can". And I congratulate the person who managed this. It's an impressive technical achievement.
Still doesn't make it something I see a lot of people wanting to do. Why would anyone really want to take a one-trick pony and change the trick...?
Not that I disagree with you entirely but I would argue that the Westboro Baptists are pretty offensive when they practice their rights to carry "Pray for more dead soldiers" signs at a serviceman's funeral. Are you suggesting it's my fault that I'm offended by that?
I'm not arguing that we should limit their rights to do that but that doesn't mean I shouldn't be offended by it.
Yes. The Westboro guys are assholes, who, if Christianity is correct are going to burn in hell for all eternity.
Why do you care what they think, say, or do? Don't waste your energy on them.
Doesn't sound like it. Market forces at play... except that Google has a near monopoly in one area, and could be using that to extend into other areas, just like how IE got its dominance in the first place. We'll need to see more details before wondering if this could be anti-competitive (leveraging one monopoly illegally in another area).
Except I don't get a huge popup warning every time I go to Google.com or a splash page saying something like:
"WARNING: YOUR GOOGLE EXPERIENCE IS SUB-OPTIMAL AND YOU ARE AT RISK OF INTERNET VIRUSES AND PERMANENT COMPUTER DAMAGE. PLEASE INSTALL THIS WINDOWS SECURITY UPDATE: CHROME.EXE TODAY!"
Google isn't anywhere CLOSE to DrDosing MS at this point.
Yes, they expected it just like they expected people to extend Kerebos Authentication and XML filetypes right back at them. Microsoft embraces and extends OTHERS, they don't GET embraced and extended.
Windows Server able to run Linux VMs easily means more people willing to move from Linux to Windows, cause they can virtualize their Linux apps until they've ported them over -- and since they went to all that trouble to pay for Windows server... Might as well keep it.
It doesn't really "work" for Microsoft the other way around, ya know.
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He's a god damned idiot. Or an attention whore. Or both.
Like him or not, Murdoch is not dumb. Nor, for someone who owns upwards of 175 newspapers, several TV networks, and a direct broadcast satellite system, does he indulge in much self-publicity.
Current evidence suggests otherwise. He must think Google is stupid enough to just pay him for... nothing?
He's a god damned idiot. Or an attention whore. Or both.
if you make a, oh you know, not a shitty game in the first place, that money part is not an issue.
Indie devs happen to make serious money that way too, as an easy aside world of goo and gratuitous space battles are two games that have been successful and done by indie developers.
Dragon Age Origins is ANYTHING but a shitty game. It's great. The DLC is more a fuck you to glorified video game Pawn shops like Gamestop, as you are given it for free if you buy the game new but have to pay $15 if you buy it used. Since Gamestop is rather evil, I'm all for this.
couldn't some group of americans sue the shit out of dumbass companies who use misleading marketing - calling something with a cap "unlimited" should result in their whole marketing department fired and any manager who approved it receiving hefty financial fine.
That's how it works in Europe. Unfortunately, the US let Corporations take over years ago.
ProTip and important reminder: Comcast has been overselling their network for years now, and EVERY area is in a "Near Congestion State" at all times by design.
This changes nothing.
Then people should be paying 70% or 50%. Or they should be required to advertise as 70% or 50%. You know, a disclaimer. "Warning: You are not allowed to actually use your 5 megabit Cable connection, doing so will cause us to automatically screw you over in a way that would do the Insurance Industry Proud."
Of course, it's even better -- I'm sure that it's written vaguely enough that the total amount of changes the guys on the Comcast servers will need to do to implement this change is nill.
shouldn't TCP do that by itself?
Anyway, I consider this is a good thing, it'll probably increase goodput (less outdated, duplicate packets, preferring "closer" networks).
It would, if Bittorrent et all weren't designed to break TCP's regulating. By default uTorrent starts up with like 800 max connections at a time. The TCPIP spec was never really designed to handle this kind of shotgun flooding. The Bittorrent spec is designed to not care about fragmentation, QoS, et all. It is designed to break through college dorm QoS throttling, which is why this kinda discussion is kinda amusing.
If you upgrade Windows on top of another installation you are in for a bad time.
I went from Vista OEM Business to 7 Ultimate RC1. I started the install around 10 PM and it finished around Noon the next day. Everything's fine except for the start menu, which has basically crapped itself -- it was showing both all programs and my user programs, so I'd havel ike 2 "Accessories" folders. At least, was. Now the entire folder is empty. I can explore to it, but the start menu itself doesn't appear.
No free browser, apparently?
Seriously, a good chunk of these missing features (PDF support, for example) are in the Kindle DX, and could be backported to the Kindle 2 with a firmware / OS update. One I would wager is being approved right... about... now.
And yet... All I can think of is, "Wow, this means the Kindle 3 is going to be out soon, and kick ass."
Do you understand the SIZE of the numbers we're talking about here?
2^128 == 3.4e38
Number of atoms on Earth is ~1.33e50
Suppose we're true bad-asses, and we create a RAM that can store 8 bits PER ATOM. Wow. We would need 3.4e38 atoms to store a 128-bit address space. Considering that as a fraction of Earth's mass, this RAM will have a mass of about 15 trillion kilograms.
I don't know about you but I am not sure where the fuck I would store a stick of RAM that weighs 15 trillion kilograms.
I know it's cute and everything to hearken back to the "Nobody would ever need more than 640k" days but get a brain and run the numbers, ok?
Except that we have no idea what computing is going to be like in 20 years. And that RAM is not the only thing that uses those address lines. That's why 32 bit memory addressing is such a disaster -- Put 4 gigs in a 32 bit system and you'll actually get about 3.5 gigs out of it, give or take, thanks to addresses being needed elsewhere.
Yes, I can't forsee using 3.4e38 bits of RAM. But then again, show me an iPhone 10, 20 years ago and I would have guessed it was technology from 2100, not 2010.
I guess what I'm saying is we can't predict what the IT teams of 2025-2050 are going to need, so why not engineer it (apparently quite literally) future proof? It's not like it's that much extra engineering.
You might want to consider breaking your, er, writing up into paragraphs. If you want anyone to read your posts, anyway.
Holy crap, that was a post? I thought I had some line noise there for a bit. Which would be darned impressive since I'm on DSL nowada^!51
66666FF
+++ NO CARRIER
None of the linked articles say that the 128 bits is for the filesystem only, but I still believe you're right:
Making the entire os 128-bit would simply waste a _lot_ of memory, for zero real gain. (Rather the opposite: A larger working set always leads to slower code.)
Having 128 bits available for filesystem/storage makes it quite feasible to have globally unique addresses for everything, across huge populations of machines.
This has been done before, afair IBM has used a 128 (or 129!) bit address space for their AS400 platform, where everything is memory mapped.
I.e. there is no visible file system, you just access objects by address (which is really a handle).
I believe Amazon's cloud storage is similar, in that the only way to access a blob of data is via a 128-bit handle.
Terje
Since Win8 / Win9 won't be out for 5/10 years...
Why am I getting flashbacks to a discussion that people had back in the 8 bit days?
"Making the entire os 32-bit would simply waste a _lot_ of memory, for zero real gain. (Rather the opposite: A larger working set always leads to slower code.) ... Having 32 bits available for filesystem/storage makes it quite feasible to have globally unique addresses for everything, across huge populations of machines."
I never heard this discussion, but you know it happened. Probably almost verbatim.
Vernor absolutely has the right to resell his CD, due to a well-known section of copyright law known as first-sale doctrine.
Except that Autodesk is claiming that they never sold him anything, they sold him the right to use it, which is an important difference. The difference is an explicit attempt to bypass consumer protections such as first-sale doctrine; hopefully the Judge sees that and throws it out.
And in other news, a new law was finally passed making it legal to beat fraudsters to death with copies of their SEC filings.
RTFA:
This company has already built a facility, and has already landed a contract for the fuel. They are using a well known technology, just with a slightly different take (IR instead of chemical catalysts).
This doesn't exactly look like vaporware to me.
So the hydrocarbons come off as a liquid?
*rimshot*
Thanks all, I'll be here all week! Remember to tip your waitress!
I upgraded a well used Dell OEM Vista Business install to 7 RC1 Ultimate. I started around 6 PM and it finished right after I woke up at 8 AM the next day.
Machine was a slightly upgraded Dell Inspiron 531 -- new PSU, GPU, and 4 Gigs of RAM.
Britain was involved in the settlement and creation of modern-day Israel. Israelis and Palestinians often kill each other. It's not a real connection but I think this is what he's going for.
So in other words, he's not, and the troll above is, well, trolling?
You will note that site is Australian, a country that cannot use Kindles.
Are those books available like that in the relevant countries?
No. The book is still under copyright in the United States, as it was written after Mickey Mouse was created (the unofficial cutoff point for permanent copyright in the US).
That was the problem. A user in Canada uploaded the book, as it was copyright free in saner ports, and US customers were buying it illegally.
Except I don't get a huge popup warning every time I go to Google.com or a splash page saying something like:
"WARNING: YOUR GOOGLE EXPERIENCE IS SUB-OPTIMAL AND YOU ARE AT RISK OF INTERNET VIRUSES AND PERMANENT COMPUTER DAMAGE. PLEASE INSTALL THIS WINDOWS SECURITY UPDATE: CHROME.EXE TODAY!"
No, but if you visit in IE, you do get a big Chrome banner ad on the Google home page.
There's a BIG difference between "Hey, use Chrome" and "Hey, If you don't stop using IE, aliens will eat your firstborn".
One is targeted advertising (and I question even that, considering as I use Chrome and I get the same banner), the other is FUD.
No, the REAL question is... why?
A Netbook is cheaper, faster, and designed to run it. Why pay Amazon for an overpriced specialty item then make it do something it was never intended to do? I can't imagine the thing can still access the 3G network for free (the author replied "YES BUT DON'T DO THAT" to someone who asked)...
And, yes, I know... "because we can". And I congratulate the person who managed this. It's an impressive technical achievement.
Still doesn't make it something I see a lot of people wanting to do. Why would anyone really want to take a one-trick pony and change the trick...?
My question is... doesn't it ALREADY run linux?
Not that I disagree with you entirely but I would argue that the Westboro Baptists are pretty offensive when they practice their rights to carry "Pray for more dead soldiers" signs at a serviceman's funeral. Are you suggesting it's my fault that I'm offended by that?
I'm not arguing that we should limit their rights to do that but that doesn't mean I shouldn't be offended by it.
Yes. The Westboro guys are assholes, who, if Christianity is correct are going to burn in hell for all eternity.
Why do you care what they think, say, or do? Don't waste your energy on them.
Doesn't sound like it. Market forces at play ... except that Google has a near monopoly in one area, and could be using that to extend into other areas, just like how IE got its dominance in the first place. We'll need to see more details before wondering if this could be anti-competitive (leveraging one monopoly illegally in another area).
Except I don't get a huge popup warning every time I go to Google.com or a splash page saying something like:
"WARNING: YOUR GOOGLE EXPERIENCE IS SUB-OPTIMAL AND YOU ARE AT RISK OF INTERNET VIRUSES AND PERMANENT COMPUTER DAMAGE. PLEASE INSTALL THIS WINDOWS SECURITY UPDATE: CHROME.EXE TODAY!"
Google isn't anywhere CLOSE to DrDosing MS at this point.
Microsoft and Red Hat agreed to support each others' operating systems in their virtual environments, so this action is to be expected.
Yes, they expected it just like they expected people to extend Kerebos Authentication and XML filetypes right back at them. Microsoft embraces and extends OTHERS, they don't GET embraced and extended.
Windows Server able to run Linux VMs easily means more people willing to move from Linux to Windows, cause they can virtualize their Linux apps until they've ported them over -- and since they went to all that trouble to pay for Windows server... Might as well keep it.
It doesn't really "work" for Microsoft the other way around, ya know.
If your fire department is constantly fighting fires, I would say it is high time for some public education on fire prevention.
They would, but they're too busy fighting fires, you insensitive clod!
I said Cyberpunk, not Steampunk!