From wikipedia: "Midori is the code name for a managed code operating system developed secretly by Microsoft. It has been reported[1][2] to be a possible commercial successor to the Singularity operating system, a research project started in 2003 to build a highly-dependable operating system in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications are all written in managed code.
The code name Midori was first discovered through the PowerPoint presentation CHESS: A systematic testing tool for concurrent software.[3]
Midori has also been rumoured by some IT journalists as a possible replacement to Microsoft Windows.
Midori is meant to be unbound to the physical hardware of the computer and is assumed to be a much more virtually-oriented system than its precursors. It's also said that it assumes that the user will be online at all times. Midori will be easily moved between different environments without reinstallation."
If it's true, which I doubt, it's not necessarily the case that we are special. It may be the case that sparse areas are typical. This would require some explaining as well because it overturns other assumptions, but they are only assumptions.
The very act of associating cause and effect is a huge step for human beings (and other animals like crows, etc). Sometimes it will be wrong and sometimes it will be right and for the most part that knowledge will evolve.
Today we call a wrong association a failed hypothesis and anyone who holds onto such a belief in the face of appropriate counter evidence (or in some cases where there is a lack of any evidence) superstitious.
Superstition does inhibit the evolution of science. However the mechanism is all of a piece with science. They are just two different ways of reacting to a negative outcome, or, to stray into the land of psychoanalysis, to loss.
"That kind of density creates a cooling challenge. âoeOne of our most important decisions was to invest in water-cooled racks from Rittal, which allows us to precisely control the amount of cooling that a specific rack requires,â said Shand."
Obviously there is too little detail to be sure but it could whatever is the local host at the time. Sure it means transferring (potentially a lot of) data between hosts but this thing is being designed for a network infrastructure that is far superior to the current one.
Did you even RTFA? A thin client simply displays the output of some centralized application running on a server somewhere. This article is referring to an OS where the applications can run anywhere and be moved anywhere. They are basically portable applications.
So.. you're saying the rich should pay more? Why exactly?
Progressive taxes (income tax which increases in percent as the principal increases) are nonsense. Why should someone who works harder, innovates, starts their own business, or pursues a higher-wage career be penalized? It is not 'unfair' that some people have higher salaries than others.
Yeah, why not?
Progressive taxation is not nonsense. There is a certain minimum level of income which is required to raise a family. People earning that amount or less shouldn't be taxed. Since without taxing everyone we can't afford the social services that we require as decided by us as voters, we take it from the rich via taxes.
What do the rich get out of it? Have you heard of the French Revolution? If the masses don't get what they want, they take it by force.
Wouldn't you rather just have the government do it for them in a peaceful and measured way all the while giving the rich a wink and a nod by providing loopholes (which keep an army of accountants employed)?
Of course this is why the wealthy companies and individuals spend billions of dollars trying to counter-act the masses which ends up corrupting the whole process.
This isn't the only option. We could set a living wage which allows an individual to pay for health care, education, etc. We could then cut taxes for the wealthy since we wouldn't need to pay for those service anymore. Of course that would eviscerate small and medium sized businesses and encourage business to outsource.
In any case your naive sense of "fairness" is neither just nor practical.
Ok, so you missed the joke, but it happens you are wrong as well. FF downloads traditionally have been mirrored but not on a CDN. That may have changed this time around, but I didn't notice.
I know of schools that have changed teacher's grades on a case by case basis to get a student to pass (which I think is wrong), but not systematically. If they are doing it systematically, then they usually believe the teacher is incompetent. The administration will usually give some excuse like they don't want the students to repeat (which is true), but for the most part what they mean is that they don't want the students to repeat just because they have a bad teacher. Part of good teaching is ensuring that the students understand what they are taught despite your cheeky distinction between teaching/learning.
I don't know your personal circumstances. Maybe the students don't know anything about the English language or maybe you just can't teach and would rather hide behind being "mean" and having "high" standards. Given that it is less likely that 75% of 1154 (that many, really?) students don't know anything about the English language after seven years of instruction than the possibility that they just have a bad teacher who either doesn't know how to teach or grade, I'll go with the latter.
Of course, the whole story could just be made-up in which case I'd be much happier.
does it matter? The kids with decent to good grades are going to go on in life and be successful. It is worth pointing out however that they will be at a competitive disadvantage to students at schools where the focus is exclusively on excellence. It may be a bit harder for them to get into Harvard, Stanford, or Yale.
Really? That's news to me, because it doesn't seem to be the case with regulation of business. Every time the government intimates that it may regulate this or that industry there is a firestorm of criticism. In any case there are millions of Americans that at the very least are skeptical of the ability of government to do anything right, but we don't get heard because we don't pay millions of dollars to lobbyists. These lobbyists then contact the media and government in order to control the spin around any issue.
I'm not trolling. Sun, Intel, Nvidia, and ATI/AMD (for obvious reasons) have been investing in this area for years. I think that constitues Silicon Valley investments (except for those crazy Canadians at ATI).
Two words: Copy Protection. Not that it matters. Whatever protection there might be will be broken, just as it was for DVD. Since compressed HD movies aren't that much larger than DVDs and the infrastructure for pirating DVDs is already in place it won't be long before we see Blu-ray movies showing up on 'Torrents. So, they decided to kill competition that would have driven sales of their movies in order to secure the short term benefit of copy protection that will be broken Real Soon Now. Idiots. But, since they are idiots they get exactly what they deserve. Unfortunately, that means a ridiculous amount of money rather than a completely ridiculous amount of money, and, therefore, they won't even know what they missed out on.
It may not be all Apple's fault. I'd wager at&t had a bit of a say. For example, I doubt at&t wants VOIP on their network but I am sure Apple would like to provide it because it would sell more iPhones. I'll be interested to see what restrictions, say, Verizon will put on phones that use Android.
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From wikipedia:
"Midori is the code name for a managed code operating system developed secretly by Microsoft. It has been reported[1][2] to be a possible commercial successor to the Singularity operating system, a research project started in 2003 to build a highly-dependable operating system in which the kernel, device drivers, and applications are all written in managed code.
The code name Midori was first discovered through the PowerPoint presentation CHESS: A systematic testing tool for concurrent software.[3]
Midori has also been rumoured by some IT journalists as a possible replacement to Microsoft Windows.
Midori is meant to be unbound to the physical hardware of the computer and is assumed to be a much more virtually-oriented system than its precursors. It's also said that it assumes that the user will be online at all times. Midori will be easily moved between different environments without reinstallation."
If it's true, which I doubt, it's not necessarily the case that we are special. It may be the case that sparse areas are typical. This would require some explaining as well because it overturns other assumptions, but they are only assumptions.
"At first, he couldn't believe his calculations.
"This solar cell can't be generating this much electricity, it can't be absorbing this much extra light," he recalled thinking."
And then he realized he should have divided instead of multiplied.
For all the good it will do you. I expect nothing will come from these suits. Everything will be swept under the national security/state secrets rug.
The very act of associating cause and effect is a huge step for human beings (and other animals like crows, etc). Sometimes it will be wrong and sometimes it will be right and for the most part that knowledge will evolve.
Today we call a wrong association a failed hypothesis and anyone who holds onto such a belief in the face of appropriate counter evidence (or in some cases where there is a lack of any evidence) superstitious.
Superstition does inhibit the evolution of science. However the mechanism is all of a piece with science. They are just two different ways of reacting to a negative outcome, or, to stray into the land of psychoanalysis, to loss.
From the fine article:
"That kind of density creates a cooling challenge. âoeOne of our most important decisions was to invest in water-cooled racks from Rittal, which allows us to precisely control the amount of cooling that a specific rack requires,â said Shand."
Obviously there is too little detail to be sure but it could whatever is the local host at the time. Sure it means transferring (potentially a lot of) data between hosts but this thing is being designed for a network infrastructure that is far superior to the current one.
It seems that every time a new innovation is mentioned on Slashdot someone says it's already been done without even RTFA.
This is about portable application that can be moved between devices. Local storage shouldn't be an issue. It's not necessarily a thin client.
Did you even RTFA? A thin client simply displays the output of some centralized application running on a server somewhere. This article is referring to an OS where the applications can run anywhere and be moved anywhere. They are basically portable applications.
Hrm... If you think boobs are round, then I'm guessing you haven't seen too many real ones.
So.. you're saying the rich should pay more? Why exactly?
Progressive taxes (income tax which increases in percent as the principal increases) are nonsense. Why should someone who works harder, innovates, starts their own business, or pursues a higher-wage career be penalized? It is not 'unfair' that some people have higher salaries than others.
Yeah, why not?
Progressive taxation is not nonsense. There is a certain minimum level of income which is required to raise a family. People earning that amount or less shouldn't be taxed. Since without taxing everyone we can't afford the social services that we require as decided by us as voters, we take it from the rich via taxes.
What do the rich get out of it? Have you heard of the French Revolution? If the masses don't get what they want, they take it by force.
Wouldn't you rather just have the government do it for them in a peaceful and measured way all the while giving the rich a wink and a nod by providing loopholes (which keep an army of accountants employed)?
Of course this is why the wealthy companies and individuals spend billions of dollars trying to counter-act the masses which ends up corrupting the whole process.
This isn't the only option. We could set a living wage which allows an individual to pay for health care, education, etc. We could then cut taxes for the wealthy since we wouldn't need to pay for those service anymore. Of course that would eviscerate small and medium sized businesses and encourage business to outsource.
In any case your naive sense of "fairness" is neither just nor practical.
As it should be. If you want new and interesting problems, work in Technical Support. Or become a Software Engineer or Computer Scientist.
Ok, so you missed the joke, but it happens you are wrong as well. FF downloads traditionally have been mirrored but not on a CDN. That may have changed this time around, but I didn't notice.
I know of schools that have changed teacher's grades on a case by case basis to get a student to pass (which I think is wrong), but not systematically. If they are doing it systematically, then they usually believe the teacher is incompetent. The administration will usually give some excuse like they don't want the students to repeat (which is true), but for the most part what they mean is that they don't want the students to repeat just because they have a bad teacher. Part of good teaching is ensuring that the students understand what they are taught despite your cheeky distinction between teaching/learning.
I don't know your personal circumstances. Maybe the students don't know anything about the English language or maybe you just can't teach and would rather hide behind being "mean" and having "high" standards. Given that it is less likely that 75% of 1154 (that many, really?) students don't know anything about the English language after seven years of instruction than the possibility that they just have a bad teacher who either doesn't know how to teach or grade, I'll go with the latter.
Of course, the whole story could just be made-up in which case I'd be much happier.
does it matter? The kids with decent to good grades are going to go on in life and be successful. It is worth pointing out however that they will be at a competitive disadvantage to students at schools where the focus is exclusively on excellence. It may be a bit harder for them to get into Harvard, Stanford, or Yale.
Really? That's news to me, because it doesn't seem to be the case with regulation of business. Every time the government intimates that it may regulate this or that industry there is a firestorm of criticism. In any case there are millions of Americans that at the very least are skeptical of the ability of government to do anything right, but we don't get heard because we don't pay millions of dollars to lobbyists. These lobbyists then contact the media and government in order to control the spin around any issue.
Mod parent up. I'd rather have Apple do the right thing here which is to focus on clean-up. Besides I'm sure they will add some new features.
On the other hand, I know that if M$ did the same thing Apple fan-bois and gurls would be howling. Damned if you do and damned if you don't, I guess.
"(of course the hacker may not be from China, they are just using a machine in China as the most recent hop.)"
:-) I know what you mean, but it seems unlikely to be that straightforward.
That's a heck of a last hop from Beijing to Washington D.C.
This sounds familiar... Oh yeah, it's the Cell. Of course, it won't be the Cell, but I think it competes with that more than traditional GPUs.
Larrabee won't be ready for primetime till 2010-2012.
on Mars!
I'm not trolling. Sun, Intel, Nvidia, and ATI/AMD (for obvious reasons) have been investing in this area for years. I think that constitues Silicon Valley investments (except for those crazy Canadians at ATI).
Two words: Copy Protection. Not that it matters. Whatever protection there might be will be broken, just as it was for DVD. Since compressed HD movies aren't that much larger than DVDs and the infrastructure for pirating DVDs is already in place it won't be long before we see Blu-ray movies showing up on 'Torrents. So, they decided to kill competition that would have driven sales of their movies in order to secure the short term benefit of copy protection that will be broken Real Soon Now. Idiots. But, since they are idiots they get exactly what they deserve. Unfortunately, that means a ridiculous amount of money rather than a completely ridiculous amount of money, and, therefore, they won't even know what they missed out on.
It may not be all Apple's fault. I'd wager at&t had a bit of a say. For example, I doubt at&t wants VOIP on their network but I am sure Apple would like to provide it because it would sell more iPhones. I'll be interested to see what restrictions, say, Verizon will put on phones that use Android.
Developers aren't panicking. Their kernels are! Ha! Oh, that was a good one. Where's my coffee?