I would guess that anyone that touch types and has some sort of rsi would proabably hate this keyboard. I type > 100wpm and have minor rsi. I've used 'touch pad' like keyboards and they cause much soreness in my wrists. I guess it is because they don't give. Currently I use an old IBM clack keyboard and they do pretty well. Wrists haven't hurt in weeks.
I believe this displays a key defficiency in our government system. The people don't want the spam, business wants us to recieve the spam. Strangely they decide to side with business, so much for democracy.
The issue with spam faxes is much the same except that businesses didn't want to pay for that particular spam. Therefore a law got passed preventing it.
Electric Fence tends to work quite well and will check for most types of memory violations. It actually segv's your code when you perform a bad memory access, this lets you run in the debugger of your choice and see exactly where you made the mistake. Your code does run slower and take more memory but most memory debugger behave this way.
There are few machines that can match an sgi for capability to move data around. They have huge bandwidth and work very well as a system. I also understand that the new 3000 series from sgi is even crazier from a bandwidth standpoint.
IBM and HP have very fast processors but are also very expensive. Generally not worth it unless you have a good reason for choosing them.
Especially if you are using that kind of memory I would recomend the SGI. It is cheaper. The processors may not be the fasters but they aren't slouches either. If they want to upgrade the machine there is a very clear upgrade path (just plug in more components)
Now we need to take a webpad or equivilant, and add moving map displays to it.
Have a map with a little you are here arrow.
Is all the data necessary for this availaable? We have dem and landuse data...maps and roads. Tie it into mapquest and you would have an opensource navigation system for your car!
I think that these devices are a great idea, but can we really expect them to be happy about us running linux on them when they are really just terminals for a subscription service.
Don't get me wrong, I love linux and would like to have one of these.
My question is this. Are these machines really this cheap or are they recouping thier costs with the service. I suspect that it is the service.
Perhaps they could offer a slightly more expensive version of these devices for linux users who aren't going to use their service. This would, i think, alieviate the problems with losing revenue.
This is probably simply due to miscommunication through abit's management. The people who write the software are going to be much more likely to understand the licensing of GPL software. By the time it gets to distribution they simply slap it on a cd and out it goes. Once the proper people are informed the situation will be remedied quickly.
The true question is if they will release their source, or pull it alltogether.
The problems will come when a company modifies GPL'd software and releases it under their own license but denies using GPL'd sources. This could be difficult to prove and will take legal recources.
Hmmm, has anyone thought of what to do in this case?
This may be true but even today after being neglected for a few years there is nothing that will compete with a cray. Intels proprietary prototype will indead beat it but it is really just a cluster of computers anyway. for more general tasks it would not perform well.
The only thing that really competes with cray on the highend is the SGIO2k...hmmm, wonder where they got that technology?
I have a fealing that we aren't going to see 10GHz processors. At least not for a -long- time.
I think that IBM's concept of putting two cores on the same die is a great idea. effectively doubling the performance at the same clockspeed.
We will see multicore cpu's and parallel optimizing compilers before 10GHz.
Eventually it is going to become too expensive to continue the MHz race. Instead it will be cheaper to make a more efficient processor. All those engineers figuring out how to push the current die faster will be designing a processor that does more per clock and does it with fewer transistors. ( the better algorithm vs faster computer debate )
I will be very interested to see what happend when AMD gets enough marketshare that they can leave the x86 instruction set behind. The k8 does this to some extent (new fpu and such) but there is still a great deal of bagage being towed along. The powerpc processors are a great example. They have a much smaller die, fewer transistors and very good performance.
What I think that AMD needs to be able to do is create a new processor without regard to legacy hardware. They could build a smaller/faster/cheaper chip.
Theoretically yes. ( I may be full of horse pucky here, it has been a while since I read this )
In Quantum theory it is possible to have two particles which exist in a sort of dual state. Whatever you do to one happens to the other. Example: you have these two particles, you change the spin on one the spin on the other changes also. Instantaneously bacause you actually affected both particles.
Now, if you use these two particles for communication then the information would actually travel faster than light. Granted this depends a great deal on the feasability of creating the particles (which I believe has been done in a lab), how small you can make the equipment, and the speed at which you can change their state.
A few years ago I saw an article about nanotech hinged mirrors. (hmm, I wonder if I read that on slashdot or not)
They are pretty much mirrors that lay flat and are raised at an angle but they are molecular scale. If I remember properly they weren't very quick. With more research something like this could be used to switch comminications or bits in a computer.
I think that the most exiting developments will come from quantum computers. Just imaging a computer that used quantum wells for communication. Theoretically this would allow instantanious communication between two points.
This isn't even going into quantum computers. This is simply using quantum technology to improve standard processors.
This is a great time. The same thing that happened to linux could happen here. If we have a free core that gets enough attention, then people will start poking at it. Pretty soon you start getting more and more people working on it. Eventually we will have as much time and talent as any microprocessor design company. I would hazard to say that there is more time and talent going into the linux operating system than any other OS. I say, build it! Make embedded processors! Build boards! Build a computer out of it and I will buy one! Binder
I am looking forward to the day when you can take speech recognition, speech synthesis, and translation software so that we have realtime translation of audio. Some of the recognition software is getting good enough but I do not think there is any that is opensource.
What is the state of speech recognition software for linux? Especially continuous recognition.
Slashdot Mirror
If he can do that with a window what could he do with some pictures of cute anime girls?!?
I would guess that anyone that touch types and has some sort of rsi would proabably hate this keyboard. I type > 100wpm and have minor rsi. I've used 'touch pad' like keyboards and they cause much soreness in my wrists. I guess it is because they don't give. Currently I use an old IBM clack keyboard and they do pretty well. Wrists haven't hurt in weeks.
Binder
I believe this displays a key defficiency in our government system. The people don't want the spam, business wants us to recieve the spam. Strangely they decide to side with business, so much for democracy.
The issue with spam faxes is much the same except that businesses didn't want to pay for that particular spam. Therefore a law got passed preventing it.
dagone it! When will these people get a clue.
Binder
Electric Fence tends to work quite well and will check for most types of memory violations. It actually segv's your code when you perform a bad memory access, this lets you run in the debugger of your choice and see exactly where you made the mistake. Your code does run slower and take more memory but most memory debugger behave this way.
Binder
There are few machines that can match an sgi for capability to move data around. They have huge bandwidth and work very well as a system. I also understand that the new 3000 series from sgi is even crazier from a bandwidth standpoint.
IBM and HP have very fast processors but are also very expensive. Generally not worth it unless you have a good reason for choosing them.
Especially if you are using that kind of memory I would recomend the SGI. It is cheaper. The processors may not be the fasters but they aren't slouches either. If they want to upgrade the machine there is a very clear upgrade path (just plug in more components)
Now we need to take a webpad or equivilant, and add moving map displays to it.
Have a map with a little you are here arrow.
Is all the data necessary for this availaable? We have dem and landuse data...maps and roads. Tie it into mapquest and you would have an opensource navigation system for your car!
Binder
I think that these devices are a great idea, but can we really expect them to be happy about us running linux on them when they are really just terminals for a subscription service.
Don't get me wrong, I love linux and would like to have one of these.
My question is this. Are these machines really this cheap or are they recouping thier costs with the service. I suspect that it is the service.
Perhaps they could offer a slightly more expensive version of these devices for linux users who aren't going to use their service. This would, i think, alieviate the problems with losing revenue.
Binder
This is probably simply due to miscommunication through abit's management. The people who write the software are going to be much more likely to understand the licensing of GPL software. By the time it gets to distribution they simply slap it on a cd and out it goes. Once the proper people are informed the situation will be remedied quickly.
The true question is if they will release their source, or pull it alltogether.
The problems will come when a company modifies GPL'd software and releases it under their own license but denies using GPL'd sources. This could be difficult to prove and will take legal recources.
Hmmm, has anyone thought of what to do in this case?
binder
This may be true but even today after being neglected for a few years there is nothing that will compete with a cray. Intels proprietary prototype will indead beat it but it is really just a cluster of computers anyway. for more general tasks it would not perform well.
The only thing that really competes with cray on the highend is the SGIO2k...hmmm, wonder where they got that technology?
Binder
What would be nice is to have a Linux Certified Engineer. There could be a standard test that was used by many testing groups.
This way redhat, caldera, sgi, corel, etc. could certify people as LCE's but they would all mean the same thing.
You would get an LCE from corel for example.
Binder
I have a fealing that we aren't going to see 10GHz processors. At least not for a -long- time.
I think that IBM's concept of putting two cores on the same die is a great idea. effectively doubling the performance at the same clockspeed.
We will see multicore cpu's and parallel optimizing compilers before 10GHz.
Eventually it is going to become too expensive to continue the MHz race. Instead it will be cheaper to make a more efficient processor. All those engineers figuring out how to push the current die faster will be designing a processor that does more per clock and does it with fewer transistors.
( the better algorithm vs faster computer debate )
just my 2c
Binder
I will be very interested to see what happend when AMD gets enough marketshare that they can leave the x86 instruction set behind. The k8 does this to some extent (new fpu and such) but there is still a great deal of bagage being towed along. The powerpc processors are a great example. They have a much smaller die, fewer transistors and very good performance.
What I think that AMD needs to be able to do is create a new processor without regard to legacy hardware. They could build a smaller/faster/cheaper chip.
Binder
Theoretically yes.
( I may be full of horse pucky here, it has been a while since I read this )
In Quantum theory it is possible to have two particles which exist in a sort of dual state.
Whatever you do to one happens to the other. Example: you have these two particles, you change the spin on one the spin on the other changes also. Instantaneously bacause you actually affected both particles.
Now, if you use these two particles for communication then the information would actually travel faster than light. Granted this depends a great deal on the feasability of creating the particles (which I believe has been done in a lab), how small you can make the equipment, and the speed at which you can change their state.
Just may random ramblings.
Binder
A few years ago I saw an article about nanotech hinged mirrors. (hmm, I wonder if I read that on slashdot or not)
They are pretty much mirrors that lay flat and are raised at an angle but they are molecular scale. If I remember properly they weren't very quick. With more research something like this could be used to switch comminications or bits in a computer.
I think that the most exiting developments will come from quantum computers. Just imaging a computer that used quantum wells for communication. Theoretically this would allow instantanious communication between two points.
This isn't even going into quantum computers. This is simply using quantum technology to improve standard processors.
Binder
This is a great time. The same thing that happened to linux could happen here. If we have a free core that gets enough attention, then people will start poking at it. Pretty soon you start getting more and more people working on it. Eventually we will have as much time and talent as any microprocessor design company. I would hazard to say that there is more time and talent going into the linux operating system than any other OS. I say, build it! Make embedded processors! Build boards! Build a computer out of it and I will buy one! Binder
I am looking forward to the day when you can take speech recognition, speech synthesis, and translation software so that we have realtime translation of audio. Some of the recognition software is getting good enough but I do not think there is any that is opensource.
What is the state of speech recognition software for linux? Especially continuous recognition.
Binder