In answer:
1)If Java was open, they should give it to ANSII, ECMA or ISO.
2)The source is available but under a very restrictive license.
3)The GPL version is incomplete and fails to run many aplications.
In short SPARC is slightly less open than Java, but neither are truely open.
Tha ks, that was on one of the pages that I couldn't find due to the/. effect.
The only real reason that I see is the platform migration penalty for software. For DIY, I have plenty of options on the x86 side that I would be happy with for long-term server use. On the OEM side, PC Servers come in two classes: 1-2U high designs for rack-mounting (typically at ISPs) and monsters with space for oodles of disks. Either way you pay a penalty. If you don't want either evry small systems or very large systems then it is easier to get a relatively cheap commodity midi machine and maybe stick an extra fan into it.
There is a SPARC organisation but attempts to produce non SUN SPARC systems have had a number of problems. The x86 architecture is crude/rude compared with the newer UltraSPARC designs but, so what, there is competition!!
The word of course is Bundesverfassungsamt, the depatment for the protection of the Federal constitution. They are supposed to tread on the toes of the Lander when they get out of line.
Nazis are not nice people, but then neither are censors.
Having a quick dig through the article at the far from lightning speed that a/.ed site runs at, I am still no absolutely clear why they stuck with SPARC architecture.
SPARCs come from Sun, everybody makes a PC - so guess which is cheaper? We see some reasons why they went for the Blade (a nice machine, but rather more expensive than a couple of PCs).
Please get this right, I'm no x86 fan, but I love the competition going through the line from the processors, chip-sets, mother-boards, etc. This has got to ensure that unless you really want the 2GHz Pentium 4, you have plenty of choice.
As for reliability, I don't know the Blade, but the SPARC 20s used to give some headaches over their internal construction. It always seemed a little complicated with the daughter boards and they seemed to lose contact after machines were moved around.
Many persons have commented that the $10 per box that the software costs Microsoft (a gross overestimate) is too small. The point is that would the schools have bought XP?
Answer: No, these schools are broke. There is no loss to Microsoft other than the production cost (about $3 in bulk). Even that can be minimised by giving only one set of media per school and the rest a 'licence to copy'.
The last point is training. A school isn't exactly the place to attract geeks, particularly a poor one. If the teachers don't have the expertise to handle the equipment then forget it! You end up with a very expensive ornament that sits in the corner (until it is stolen).
What, you feel that existing performance is good enough? Lets put this into context.
A long-long time ago (1976), I worked as a student at a place which was doing some of the early stuff on graphics, the Computer Aided Design Centre in Cambridge UK.
We did some very cool things on hardware that was so cool that our techies had to build it themselves. We had some cool software as well such as Things/Hidden-Lines that could generate buildings for walkthroughs.
We couldn't do anything in real-time as a single frame took at least 5 minutes to produce.
If we wanted full-definition (512*512), we had to produce separate RGB images which were photographed through a filter by an animation camera. The end result was cool in 1976.
What is the state of the art today? Shrek? Final Fantasy? Again, relatively huge resources to render each frame and no chance to do it in real-time.
Well, graphics has come a long way in 24 years, but if I want to do it in real-time, I have problems getting quality. This is why firms like Evans and Sutherland still clean-up doing the graphics subsystems for flight simulators. First-person shooters have come a long way, but still they are bound by the number of polygons and vertices, so rounded objects are difficult to render in real-time.
Yes, there has been progress, but maybe I will be happy when I can handle the equivalent of a PixarRender Farm on my desktop and in real-time. The GeForce 4 isn't there, but maybe sometime.........
There is an explicit right to reverse engineer s/wfor the purposes of interfacing. This is the HMI, so a translation is permitted, as long as you own rights to use the original s/w.
If the local agent isn't doing the work. Sorry, they lose the business!
Sorry, I thought you were being provocative or actually were implementing a firewall. I am very, very uncomfortable with any large-scale filtering. I have already heard the word Pornography being used to apply to political tracts with which people do not agree (i.e., the PRC).
The issue is that most people are happy about filtering out the 10 year old being raped, the problem is at what point do the dissident viewpoints get hammered. This is actually, why I am not directly against pro-Nazi sites, the same rules can be used to supress other sources of info like the excrable Drudge Report. The bastard might be a right-wing lacky, but he was correct to reveal the Clinton approach to employer-employee relations. Could that kind of exposure happen in Saudi?
The other side of the Saudi question is that whilst the rich can drink/gamble/whore themselves away, it is more difficult for the poor - and this number is growing. I think you also allude to the fact that one day it may blow up in the faces of the ruling classes.
The full story on the construction of this turing-type ribosome is in Nature. Unfortunately it needs a subscriber login (i.e., $$$) or even $15 just for a look at a single article. Does anyone have a better link to the paper.
Joking aside, this really does have some interesting potential. Effectively this is a real nano-machine and I would love to read a little more, although I am lucky if I can understand 10% of what is in Nature!
Is this guy real or just a troll. The only people who can usually afford to avoid to bypass the system are those who are part of the system.
The Saudi regime is trying desparately to hold onto power but their legitimisation comes through the Wahhabis who proclaim them as guardians of the two holy cities. The Wahhabis live in the 16th century and prefer it that way. The Saudis princes like their luxuries so many live a double life, but it only works for those with money
My implementing the firewalls, this guy is as much as an oppressor as those westerners who advise secret police forces in Saudi and elsewhere.
Once you get behind the Hagiography (there are no authorised biographies of JK at the meoment), we just find someone who loves to write.
I would agree thatvery little of what she is doing is new, but she has repackaged a boarding school story (been around since Tom Brown's Schooldays)in way that people like it now. The characterisation is great, and kids now really like it.
It isn't just a craze because I know one kid who had no prior exposure until she was given the book to read when she was 15. She was definitely out of the usual crazes as she had just arrived from Russia and was waiting to start school (so no friends yet). She loved the book and read all four in quick succession - in English.
Forget the cult, the HP books are well written. They are not high literature, but they are fun and they carry some interesting (and seditious)messages.
Duh, simply not true in Frankfurt. Most of the German kids here love it (I have a son and Daughter in Gymnasium). The son (almost 19) is cooler about it, but the daughter and her friends (ages 15-17) think it is great. Note that many of the boys like it too.
We also have HP openningin the original English in Frankfurt (at least two cinemas) this coming Thursday.
These days, it is much easier for a "director's cut" to be put together. WB will certainly see the value of finding a way to get extra milage out of the film after the first DVD release.
One reason is that there has been some bad stuff said about the SFX. If the picture turns out to be big then it easy to find the resources to redo some of that stuff.
The key point is how much dialogue do they have in the can? It is difficult to slap that together later. Again, a lot more could be shown of the teatures, but was it ever filmed?
In the real world, you would dearly love to have the time to do it right. Unfortunately, this is not always possible.
Also, you often have the situation that there is an external constraint that is not apparent to the maintainer. It is better that these are noted with the code rather than in some external document.
When you maintain a multi-language cross-platform system with some 30 million lines of code, then you definitely become a believer in source code comments.
With source code control, you can be fairly certain that comments are relevant because you always know who wrote them and changed the code.
1) Switch off, wait five minutes for capacitors to discharge and then pull the power.
2) It is better to be right handed when playing inside. Your heart is slightly to the left, and you want to keep any jolts away from it.
3) Keep the other hand in your pocket. A nice big jolt across your chest is best left to the emergency teams.
4) OTOH, I have played inside a monitor with a nice thick rubber glove (doing alignments, so fiddling around by the tube neck) whilst it was on and never had any problems.
Duh, bad moderation, that was "On-Topic". Ice Hotels are fun places to freeze your whatnots offbut an interesting experiance so I've heard. Living in adverse conditions is definitely on-topic!!!!!!
From what I understand, an issue on the larger dies is the problem of clock distribution from one side of the chip to the other (and the associated power problems).
Wouldn't an asynch chip help by reducing the problem of getting a clock tick do all the different parts of the processor at once?
First, this is not intended to be either a troll or flamebait. Please differentiate between MS and the technoly where there is an open alternative.
Microsoft compiles output from C# and J# to an intermediate code that is given, in turn to a JIT compiler. There is no virtual machine, but what the code is allowed to do is well defined (you can only make certain defined calls to a special environment. You can not self modify the code or execute data so calls outside the box are prevented.
There is no particular advantage to this approach as opposed to the JVM/JIT compiler combinations used for Java except that the execution environment is a lot friendlier to Windows type programs.
J# is just a way to lever Java code onto.NET, the same with COBOL# and FORTRAN#. As the C# language spec, the intermediate code and the execution envionmrnt spec is being passed to ECMA, I begin to feel more comfortable about this side of.NET (see also the Mono project). Hailstorm sucks big, but that is just BillG's normal attempt at world domination. The architecture doesn't need Hailstorm and some OS developers like what they see.
Of course, the reason behind.NET was to fight SUN, however, SUN openned themselves up to this by not properly opening up Java quickly enough. Frankly, SUN doesn't have the muscle to run the Java project by itself (having lived with the bleeding edge of Java betas, I see that). MS is no better but by giving it to ECMA, the standards are under public control/scrutiny so it is difficult for them to embrace/extend.
For your first point, you will find that the original Ethernet docs all carry three company names on it. The Ethernet isn't particularly relevant because it is technically CSMA with no switching of packets on the LAN. All that stuff about LAN switches and Bridge-Routers came much later. I think you may be a little confused between a LAN and a WAN. All networks used packets to carry their data, the important point about packet-switching being that packets could take different routes on the WAN and be reassembled in the right order for delivery.
In the UK, most research centres were networked from quite early on. No packet switches, just quite expensive fixed lines and modem over POTS. It became what was called JANET later and it continues now. Originally it was based on X.25 packet switch technology with own protocols sitting on top. Now it runs IP.
As for Davies, he was definitely well known and I have one of his books on network security - very knowledgeable. He certainly would have had access to the early networks.
The principle of a patent is to grant the patentee a limited monopoly in return for disclosure of the invention.
If we are to have software patents then the new guidelines are out of order, because there is no requirement to do anything other than describe the functionality being patented.
It should be noted that the EPO is in Munich where Microsoft have a major office.
In any case these are only the guidelines for new patent examiners. The law isn't passed yet.
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I would count a tad more (say $800) for this especially with ECC memmory, but you make my point. A lot cheaper then $1000 or more likely $1500.
1)If Java was open, they should give it to ANSII, ECMA or ISO.
2)The source is available but under a very restrictive license.
3)The GPL version is incomplete and fails to run many aplications.
In short SPARC is slightly less open than Java, but neither are truely open.
The only real reason that I see is the platform migration penalty for software. For DIY, I have plenty of options on the x86 side that I would be happy with for long-term server use. On the OEM side, PC Servers come in two classes: 1-2U high designs for rack-mounting (typically at ISPs) and monsters with space for oodles of disks. Either way you pay a penalty. If you don't want either evry small systems or very large systems then it is easier to get a relatively cheap commodity midi machine and maybe stick an extra fan into it.
There is a SPARC organisation but attempts to produce non SUN SPARC systems have had a number of problems. The x86 architecture is crude/rude compared with the newer UltraSPARC designs but, so what, there is competition!!
Personally, I've hacked around a little bit but a hand edit of a kernel makefile is not exactly beginner's stuff.
Nazis are not nice people, but then neither are censors.
SPARCs come from Sun, everybody makes a PC - so guess which is cheaper? We see some reasons why they went for the Blade (a nice machine, but rather more expensive than a couple of PCs).
Please get this right, I'm no x86 fan, but I love the competition going through the line from the processors, chip-sets, mother-boards, etc. This has got to ensure that unless you really want the 2GHz Pentium 4, you have plenty of choice.
As for reliability, I don't know the Blade, but the SPARC 20s used to give some headaches over their internal construction. It always seemed a little complicated with the daughter boards and they seemed to lose contact after machines were moved around.
Answer: No, these schools are broke. There is no loss to Microsoft other than the production cost (about $3 in bulk). Even that can be minimised by giving only one set of media per school and the rest a 'licence to copy'.
The last point is training. A school isn't exactly the place to attract geeks, particularly a poor one. If the teachers don't have the expertise to handle the equipment then forget it! You end up with a very expensive ornament that sits in the corner (until it is stolen).
A long-long time ago (1976), I worked as a student at a place which was doing some of the early stuff on graphics, the Computer Aided Design Centre in Cambridge UK.
We did some very cool things on hardware that was so cool that our techies had to build it themselves. We had some cool software as well such as Things/Hidden-Lines that could generate buildings for walkthroughs.
We couldn't do anything in real-time as a single frame took at least 5 minutes to produce. If we wanted full-definition (512*512), we had to produce separate RGB images which were photographed through a filter by an animation camera. The end result was cool in 1976.
What is the state of the art today? Shrek? Final Fantasy? Again, relatively huge resources to render each frame and no chance to do it in real-time.
Well, graphics has come a long way in 24 years, but if I want to do it in real-time, I have problems getting quality. This is why firms like Evans and Sutherland still clean-up doing the graphics subsystems for flight simulators. First-person shooters have come a long way, but still they are bound by the number of polygons and vertices, so rounded objects are difficult to render in real-time.
Yes, there has been progress, but maybe I will be happy when I can handle the equivalent of a Pixar Render Farm on my desktop and in real-time. The GeForce 4 isn't there, but maybe sometime.........
If the local agent isn't doing the work. Sorry, they lose the business!
The issue is that most people are happy about filtering out the 10 year old being raped, the problem is at what point do the dissident viewpoints get hammered. This is actually, why I am not directly against pro-Nazi sites, the same rules can be used to supress other sources of info like the excrable Drudge Report. The bastard might be a right-wing lacky, but he was correct to reveal the Clinton approach to employer-employee relations. Could that kind of exposure happen in Saudi?
The other side of the Saudi question is that whilst the rich can drink/gamble/whore themselves away, it is more difficult for the poor - and this number is growing. I think you also allude to the fact that one day it may blow up in the faces of the ruling classes.
Joking aside, this really does have some interesting potential. Effectively this is a real nano-machine and I would love to read a little more, although I am lucky if I can understand 10% of what is in Nature!
The Saudi regime is trying desparately to hold onto power but their legitimisation comes through the Wahhabis who proclaim them as guardians of the two holy cities. The Wahhabis live in the 16th century and prefer it that way. The Saudis princes like their luxuries so many live a double life, but it only works for those with money
My implementing the firewalls, this guy is as much as an oppressor as those westerners who advise secret police forces in Saudi and elsewhere.
I would agree thatvery little of what she is doing is new, but she has repackaged a boarding school story (been around since Tom Brown's Schooldays)in way that people like it now. The characterisation is great, and kids now really like it.
It isn't just a craze because I know one kid who had no prior exposure until she was given the book to read when she was 15. She was definitely out of the usual crazes as she had just arrived from Russia and was waiting to start school (so no friends yet). She loved the book and read all four in quick succession - in English.
Forget the cult, the HP books are well written. They are not high literature, but they are fun and they carry some interesting (and seditious)messages.
We also have HP openningin the original English in Frankfurt (at least two cinemas) this coming Thursday.
One reason is that there has been some bad stuff said about the SFX. If the picture turns out to be big then it easy to find the resources to redo some of that stuff.
The key point is how much dialogue do they have in the can? It is difficult to slap that together later. Again, a lot more could be shown of the teatures, but was it ever filmed?
Also, you often have the situation that there is an external constraint that is not apparent to the maintainer. It is better that these are noted with the code rather than in some external document.
When you maintain a multi-language cross-platform system with some 30 million lines of code, then you definitely become a believer in source code comments.
With source code control, you can be fairly certain that comments are relevant because you always know who wrote them and changed the code.
Rules for poking around inside monitors:
1) Switch off, wait five minutes for capacitors to discharge and then pull the power.
2) It is better to be right handed when playing inside. Your heart is slightly to the left, and you want to keep any jolts away from it.
3) Keep the other hand in your pocket. A nice big jolt across your chest is best left to the emergency teams.
4) OTOH, I have played inside a monitor with a nice thick rubber glove (doing alignments, so fiddling around by the tube neck) whilst it was on and never had any problems.
Duh, bad moderation, that was "On-Topic". Ice Hotels are fun places to freeze your whatnots offbut an interesting experiance so I've heard. Living in adverse conditions is definitely on-topic!!!!!!
Wouldn't an asynch chip help by reducing the problem of getting a clock tick do all the different parts of the processor at once?
Microsoft compiles output from C# and J# to an intermediate code that is given, in turn to a JIT compiler. There is no virtual machine, but what the code is allowed to do is well defined (you can only make certain defined calls to a special environment. You can not self modify the code or execute data so calls outside the box are prevented.
There is no particular advantage to this approach as opposed to the JVM/JIT compiler combinations used for Java except that the execution environment is a lot friendlier to Windows type programs.
J# is just a way to lever Java code onto .NET, the same with COBOL# and FORTRAN#. As the C# language spec, the intermediate code and the execution envionmrnt spec is being passed to ECMA, I begin to feel more comfortable about this side of .NET (see also the Mono project). Hailstorm sucks big, but that is just BillG's normal attempt at world domination. The architecture doesn't need Hailstorm and some OS developers like what they see.
Of course, the reason behind .NET was to fight SUN, however, SUN openned themselves up to this by not properly opening up Java quickly enough. Frankly, SUN doesn't have the muscle to run the Java project by itself (having lived with the bleeding edge of Java betas, I see that). MS is no better but by giving it to ECMA, the standards are under public control/scrutiny so it is difficult for them to embrace/extend.
Not a good idea. In the UK we have seen measures taken for ant-terrorism applied to persons accused of regular criminal activity.
We are talking detainees here, we are not necessarily even talking about convicted criminals.
In the UK, most research centres were networked from quite early on. No packet switches, just quite expensive fixed lines and modem over POTS. It became what was called JANET later and it continues now. Originally it was based on X.25 packet switch technology with own protocols sitting on top. Now it runs IP.
As for Davies, he was definitely well known and I have one of his books on network security - very knowledgeable. He certainly would have had access to the early networks.
If we are to have software patents then the new guidelines are out of order, because there is no requirement to do anything other than describe the functionality being patented.
It should be noted that the EPO is in Munich where Microsoft have a major office.
In any case these are only the guidelines for new patent examiners. The law isn't passed yet.