most companies have 20 or 30 years worth of elegently retarded standards to deal with, why do they want another?
Usually to replace old ones that suck. For example, I believe XHTML2 and Web Forms 2.0 provide the ability to do input checking as part of the actual Form. No more fucking around with Javascript , which would be a good example of an old standard thats fucked up (mostly because Microsoft and Netscape couldn't play nicely).
I'm not sure why some enterprising mozilla/firefox nut hasn't made an activex plug-in for IE that causes the browser to render all pages using a "gecko plug-in". For example, if I came to slashdot (using IE like I normally do) and the page prompted me to install the "Gecko HTML rendering engine", I'd do it. Just like all those the masses that install spyware because they don't know any better.
I'm amazed I never thought of this. This would be _far_ less work than messing with CSS2 until it works in IE.
He probably had to do this kind of stuff to appease the church. Scientists in this era lived in fear of the mighty clergy. Just look at what happened to Galileo!
Insightful. Lets here it for the slashdot moderators! Uninformed christianity-bashing from people who would know better if they'd bothered to RTFA. If you had, you'd have known that Newton's writings actually were fairly heretical, promoting the idea of one God the Father Almighty over the doctrine of the trinity (which would have gotten him in quite a bit of trouble if it had gotten out). His religious writings were in fact the ones he kept secret. Come on people...
Here here. I fence and want to see the fencing matches. If they even show them on American TV, it will probably be a half hour's worth at 3:30 in the morning.
Bad news. I just went through NBC's coverage schedule, and it kinda looks like the only thing they're even airing is individual and team men's sabre finals. Ick. (It's entirely possible I missed more, but I don't thinks so).
That will be great when we can just buy chips and literally drop them into a box with i/o ports. But since that isn't going to happen - what's the real advantage to the consumer of having no motherboard?
Well, if you'd bothered to RTFA, as apparently nobody bothers to do anymore you'd know that the advantage is a massive speed up in chip-to-chip interconnects. The ability to move the cache off the processor die. Possibly no longer needing L3 and L2 cache anymore because the connection to the RAM is now just as fast.
P.C.'s have reached a speed in recent years that standard, home-user software will not exceed in terms of requirements - for some time. (even CounterStrike doesn't appear to be bloating up too fast). So why the excitement over more computing power for home users, at the cost of replacing entire systems?
This project is being done by Sun (Makes their money on high-end servers) as part of a Darpa Supercomputing project(Things that most definitely don't sit on your desk). Not to mention that CounterStrike, being fricken old at this point and having minimum requirements in the P1 133Mhz range is hardly the benchmark of modern processor demanding applications.
I think the real advantage would be a cost effective communications chip that can be 'distributed' throughout an area - bringing an intranet or internet access to that area for fairly cheap (after all, these chips do communicate at breakneck speeds, no?)
Technology relies on the chips being right next to each other, and carefully aligned.
Don't get me wrong, the invention is fascinating, and I do hope the future of computing moves to modular designs such as this - I'm just saying the excitement factor here may be more grandiose and dillusional than is necessary.
This really has nothing to do with modularity as you're thinking of it, as you would know if you'd bothered to read the article. The interest in this is the ability to move cache off die and increase inter-chip connection speeds. As this has become the major bottleneck of pretty much every system currently on the market from personal computers on up, I'd say that the excitement factor is quite justified.
You are recieving the benefit of someone else's work for nothing against their wishes.
And depriving them of nothing. (Assuming you wouldn't have bought the game anyway).
Theft. 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same;
Copyright infringment does not remove anothers personal property. It is making a copy of a legally purchased property. Now as a society we've decided that those who create easily copied works should be given a government granted monopoly to reward them and increase investment in this sort of activity. However, that doesn't make copyright infringement theft as no property has been removed. The original author is not deprived of his property. I personally feel copyright infringement is wrong, but theft it isn't. (Not even legally).
Curious. How does society inspire an idea? Do a group of people suddenly gasp with the collective creation of a new idea? Or is it a single individual who comes up with a new idea, and then shares it?
Most major ideas are basically bound to happen once a certain point of technological and intellectual advancement are reached. We celebrate the people who invented this or that, but the reality is in most cases of "major" inventions, there are actually several people who can lay claim to the invention and we just remember the one who happened to market it or get the patent. Radio, Telephones, these are major inventions, but many people arrived at the same point more or less simultaneously.
In the distant past, things tended to get invented by one person at a time because few were educated and had the advantage of our species collective knowledge. Now with printing presses and near instant communication we've all got that benefit. Quite a lot of things get invented in several places at once.
Now, I'm not opposed to patents for real inventions. However, I think our patent system has gotten ridiculous. Business method patents are a mistake, as are in my opinion patents on software methods which should fall under the category of mathematical algorithms which are not patentable. In other words, lets start inforcing the provision about not patenting things that are obvious to people in the field and start requiring that you actually _invent_ something worth mentioning to get it patented.
I worked my ass off earning $8/hour, in a manufacturing job (wood products), in middle of f*cking August with no a/c to pay for my application. I did not get any 'help' from 'Society'; in fact, I was impeded by you idiots. "For the children" and "For the good of the people" bullsh*t. Get off your fat ass, quit complaining about your life, and actually do something.
As for this little rant: If you to sell your idea with government protection, you have to pay for the application. If you've really invented something unique, good for you. Go reap the fruits of your effort. On the other hand, if you've come up with the stunningly original idea of say, having a "buy it now at this price" button on an online auction, your sweating in a factory doesn't really justify my having to pay you to do that.
Sorry, but you must be thinking of a different keyboard - mine has a plastic frame, not metal (although it is pretty heavy, and would do plenty of damage as a blunt instrument).
Some IBM Model M keyboards were metal. They are truely impressive beasts, even amongst the already outstanding array of IBM keyboards.
Though I did have a big ass problem with Debian refusing to let apt do it's things the right way when I "broke" the X installation by installing a source-built XFree 4.3.0 over the then-Debian-supplied XFree 4.2.0. This is when I discovered that (a) dpkg sucks (b) Debian's X installation is a spaghetti mess (c) it's virtually impossible to remove XFree packages from a Debian installation and not remove every other program that uses X on the system, which is why I had to just plain install source-built XF over the top of the Debian installed one.
Generally, building from a source package or building your own package (not that difficult if you're up to compiling from source anyway) works a _lot_ better.
ICANN is important because there's a website watching them? There's websites for watching asian girls pee on each other too but I'd hardly call it important to the existence of the internet. (Then again, it might be the very reason for the same...)
Where are my mod points when I need them.....
Where are asian girls peeing on each other when I need them?
Probably in Asia. Thailand seems a good place to start, although I'd be careful cause that look on their face could because it burns when they pee.
ICANN is important because there's a website watching them? There's websites for watching asian girls pee on each other too but I'd hardly call it important to the existence of the internet. (Then again, it might be the very reason for the same...)
That is because IE is part of the OS unlike Opera and Firefox. If you use WinXP or 2003 open the process manager and set the firefox/opera process to realtime, might do the trick.
I wouldn't nessecarily recommend that. Setting the browser to real time is going to make other stuff lag as it's processor starved. If you want to improve startup time a better idea would be to use the pre-load system tray dealy.
The US had more nukes aimed at Russia than they had aimed at us. And these weren't tactical nukes for the field. These were 'take out Moscow and Leningrad' nukes.
No we didn't. They did, and (rather frighteningly, given the nearly complete decay of their military) still do have more, although their ability to deliver them has drasticly dropped off in recent years.
I'd have to track them down and kill them:-). Actually, postmaster and abuse are two accounts that every domain has, but they hardly ever get spam, because spammmers are afraid of us (insert demonic laugh here). Or perhaps it's just because they know that we will trace them back and report them, since we can read email headers better than your average user.
Lucky SOB, most of mine get spammed to death right along with everything else. See rule number 2.
So, if the code was stolen they could get an injunction against google (I think this might be called cease and desist order in the US, but same difference) to force them to stop using it.
Nope. A Cease and Desist is a nasty-gram from the lawyers telling you that you should stop what you're doing. Usually involving threats of lawsuits. An injunction is a court order to stop doing it.
If it ticks like a clock, and keeps time like a clock, it's a clock. If it harnesses energy from the decay of nuclear elements, and it does so by converting heat to electricity, it's a Nuclear reactor.
There are some very significant differences. A Nuclear reactor involves an induced chain reaction. This is just harnessing energy from passive decay. RTG's last a lot longer, but produce less power.
No, it's like taking your telephone number with you when you quit your provider.
No, no it really isn't. The first part of an IP represents the network on which the machine resides, the last part the actual machine. This is what allows the packet-switched routing to work - the router can store all of the information needed to route a given packet, because it IP's are allocated in largish blocks and all the of the IP's in block A go to interface B. If we allow customers to take their IP's with them, the allocations get smaller, the routing tables get bigger, and the the whole system gets screwed up.
Telephone numbers used to work this way, but for telephones the problem is mitigated by the fact that you're doing a point-to-point connection. You can do a multi-server database lookup of some kind (think DNSish) to figure out where the end points are, then once you've got the connection, let some lower-level networking protocol get the information from end-point A to end-point B. That underlying protocol these days is often IP. On a non-connection oriented netwokring system like the internet, this would never work - the router would have to lookup for each packet or cache a massive amount of information.
Incidentally, IP addresses used to be portable. They're not now for exactly this reason.
For all the negative we say about microsoft, they have done a lot for generating a consistant user interface. On SAP, sometimes you have to hit enter, sometimes you click the green checkmark (in "random" locations), sometimes you click the clock icon, sometimes you hit f8.
No, Apple has done a lot for consistent user interfaces. Microsoft has provided a widget set and a set of programming tools, but their own programs aren't even consistent. Having just been introduced to Visual Studio.NET, I'm a lot less than impressed.
In many ways, terrorists are like hackers/crackers.
Funny. When you say it, you get +1 Insightful. When Congress says it, everybody freaks out.
Not quite. When congress says that hackers/crackers ARE terrorists, everyone freaks out. It's like saying that somebody manufacturing excstacy works like a chemist, vs saying chemists are drug manufacturers. Its not the same relationship, and the "is like" relationship as usually used in English isn't reflexive anyway.
No, not really. Did rambus have better bandwidth than DDR? Yes, yes it did. Is this a problem I need solved? No. I need better latency on requests, not better bandwidth. DDR has better latency. Ergo, what I really want is DDR...
Do you think Ptolemy went up in a space capsule to see the shape of the earth before he told everyone it's round?? In 250 BC, Eratosthenes had calculated the size of the earth to within 10% of its actual size.
None of that was done "externally".
Well, yes and no. Eratosthenes relied upon the sun, which is in external object. Without the external sun, the angle of whos rays he measured, he couldn't have done it.
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Usually to replace old ones that suck. For example, I believe XHTML2 and Web Forms 2.0 provide the ability to do input checking as part of the actual Form. No more fucking around with Javascript , which would be a good example of an old standard thats fucked up (mostly because Microsoft and Netscape couldn't play nicely).
MSFT: 299B
IBM: 142B
please define how IBM is "still larger" than Microsoft...
Easy. Look at something meaningful like revenue, rather than Market Cap, which is basically a stock market popularity contest.
I'm amazed I never thought of this. This would be _far_ less work than messing with CSS2 until it works in IE.
Insightful. Lets here it for the slashdot moderators! Uninformed christianity-bashing from people who would know better if they'd bothered to RTFA. If you had, you'd have known that Newton's writings actually were fairly heretical, promoting the idea of one God the Father Almighty over the doctrine of the trinity (which would have gotten him in quite a bit of trouble if it had gotten out). His religious writings were in fact the ones he kept secret. Come on people...
Bad news. I just went through NBC's coverage schedule, and it kinda looks like the only thing they're even airing is individual and team men's sabre finals. Ick. (It's entirely possible I missed more, but I don't thinks so).
Nice for you. I want more fencing coverage (summer) and Cross-Country Skiing (Winter).
Well, if you'd bothered to RTFA, as apparently nobody bothers to do anymore you'd know that the advantage is a massive speed up in chip-to-chip interconnects. The ability to move the cache off the processor die. Possibly no longer needing L3 and L2 cache anymore because the connection to the RAM is now just as fast.
P.C.'s have reached a speed in recent years that standard, home-user software will not exceed in terms of requirements - for some time. (even CounterStrike doesn't appear to be bloating up too fast). So why the excitement over more computing power for home users, at the cost of replacing entire systems?
This project is being done by Sun (Makes their money on high-end servers) as part of a Darpa Supercomputing project(Things that most definitely don't sit on your desk). Not to mention that CounterStrike, being fricken old at this point and having minimum requirements in the P1 133Mhz range is hardly the benchmark of modern processor demanding applications.
I think the real advantage would be a cost effective communications chip that can be 'distributed' throughout an area - bringing an intranet or internet access to that area for fairly cheap (after all, these chips do communicate at breakneck speeds, no?)
Technology relies on the chips being right next to each other, and carefully aligned.
Don't get me wrong, the invention is fascinating, and I do hope the future of computing moves to modular designs such as this - I'm just saying the excitement factor here may be more grandiose and dillusional than is necessary.
This really has nothing to do with modularity as you're thinking of it, as you would know if you'd bothered to read the article. The interest in this is the ability to move cache off die and increase inter-chip connection speeds. As this has become the major bottleneck of pretty much every system currently on the market from personal computers on up, I'd say that the excitement factor is quite justified.
And depriving them of nothing. (Assuming you wouldn't have bought the game anyway).
Theft. 1. (Law) The act of stealing; specifically, the felonious taking and removing of personal property, with an intent to deprive the rightful owner of the same;
Copyright infringment does not remove anothers personal property. It is making a copy of a legally purchased property. Now as a society we've decided that those who create easily copied works should be given a government granted monopoly to reward them and increase investment in this sort of activity. However, that doesn't make copyright infringement theft as no property has been removed. The original author is not deprived of his property. I personally feel copyright infringement is wrong, but theft it isn't. (Not even legally).
Most major ideas are basically bound to happen once a certain point of technological and intellectual advancement are reached. We celebrate the people who invented this or that, but the reality is in most cases of "major" inventions, there are actually several people who can lay claim to the invention and we just remember the one who happened to market it or get the patent. Radio,
Telephones, these are major inventions, but many people arrived at the same point more or less simultaneously.
In the distant past, things tended to get invented by one person at a time because few were educated and had the advantage of our species collective knowledge. Now with printing presses and near instant communication we've all got that benefit. Quite a lot of things get invented in several places at once.
Now, I'm not opposed to patents for real inventions. However, I think our patent system has gotten ridiculous. Business method patents are a mistake, as are in my opinion patents on software methods which should fall under the category of mathematical algorithms which are not patentable. In other words, lets start inforcing the provision about not patenting things that are obvious to people in the field and start requiring that you actually _invent_ something worth mentioning to get it patented.
I worked my ass off earning $8/hour, in a manufacturing job (wood products), in middle of f*cking August with no a/c to pay for my application. I did not get any 'help' from 'Society'; in fact, I was impeded by you idiots. "For the children" and "For the good of the people" bullsh*t. Get off your fat ass, quit complaining about your life, and actually do something.
As for this little rant: If you to sell your idea with government protection, you have to pay for the application. If you've really invented something unique, good for you. Go reap the fruits of your effort. On the other hand, if you've come up with the stunningly original idea of say, having a "buy it now at this price" button on an online auction, your sweating in a factory doesn't really justify my having to pay you to do that.
Theres even an IRIX version for god's sake...
Some IBM Model M keyboards were metal. They are truely impressive beasts, even amongst the already outstanding array of IBM keyboards.
Generally, building from a source package or building your own package (not that difficult if you're up to compiling from source anyway) works a _lot_ better.
Where are my mod points when I need them.....
Where are asian girls peeing on each other when I need them?
Probably in Asia. Thailand seems a good place to start, although I'd be careful cause that look on their face could because it burns when they pee.
Where are my mod points when I need them.....
I wouldn't nessecarily recommend that. Setting the browser to real time is going to make other stuff lag as it's processor starved. If you want to improve startup time a better idea would be to use the pre-load system tray dealy.
No we didn't. They did, and (rather frighteningly, given the nearly complete decay of their military) still do have more, although their ability to deliver them has drasticly dropped off in recent years.
Lucky SOB, most of mine get spammed to death right along with everything else. See rule number 2.
Nope. A Cease and Desist is a nasty-gram from the lawyers telling you that you should stop what you're doing. Usually involving threats of lawsuits. An injunction is a court order to stop doing it.
There are some very significant differences. A Nuclear reactor involves an induced chain reaction. This is just harnessing energy from passive decay. RTG's last a lot longer, but produce less power.
No, no it really isn't. The first part of an IP represents the network on which the machine resides, the last part the actual machine. This is what allows the packet-switched routing to work - the router can store all of the information needed to route a given packet, because it IP's are allocated in largish blocks and all the of the IP's in block A go to interface B. If we allow customers to take their IP's with them, the allocations get smaller, the routing tables get bigger, and the the whole system gets screwed up.
Telephone numbers used to work this way, but for telephones the problem is mitigated by the fact that you're doing a point-to-point connection. You can do a multi-server database lookup of some kind (think DNSish) to figure out where the end points are, then once you've got the connection, let some lower-level networking protocol get the information from end-point A to end-point B. That underlying protocol these days is often IP. On a non-connection oriented netwokring system like the internet, this would never work - the router would have to lookup for each packet or cache a massive amount of information.
Incidentally, IP addresses used to be portable. They're not now for exactly this reason.
No, Apple has done a lot for consistent user interfaces. Microsoft has provided a widget set and a set of programming tools, but their own programs aren't even consistent. Having just been introduced to Visual Studio.NET, I'm a lot less than impressed.
If they have racks, and the grandparent stated, I'd expect them to sell rackmount cases...
Funny. When you say it, you get +1 Insightful.
When Congress says it, everybody freaks out.
Not quite. When congress says that hackers/crackers ARE terrorists, everyone freaks out. It's like saying that somebody manufacturing excstacy works like a chemist, vs saying chemists are drug manufacturers. Its not the same relationship, and the "is like" relationship as usually used in English isn't reflexive anyway.
No, not really. Did rambus have better bandwidth than DDR? Yes, yes it did. Is this a problem I need solved? No. I need better latency on requests, not better bandwidth. DDR has better latency. Ergo, what I really want is DDR...
None of that was done "externally".
Well, yes and no. Eratosthenes relied upon the sun, which is in external object. Without the external sun, the angle of whos rays he measured, he couldn't have done it.