I'm sure if they thought that WinCE had any value as a brand/name they'd have kept it, so this is obviously basically "it's not WinCE, really!" name.
It reminds me of the forever leaking British nuclear power station called Windscale. The Government's eventual reaction to the continuous Windscale bad press was to rename it Sellafield!
If this is true, then it looks as if Redhat's strategy is the archetypal `buy up lots of small companies to boost the CEO's ego'.
I disagree. Cygnus made sense since they're the gcc maintainers and the kernel is definitely written in GNU C, not ANSI C! They also may help RedHat support embedded Linux. Given their (IMO) massively inflated stock price, any stock based aquisition of slightly more tangiable assets makes sense, really! The allure of Corel could be the applications and distribution network, with the shareholder bonus of eliminating a potential Linux stock market distraction.
I hope it isn't true. Any ideas as to what started the rumour?
Even if it might make some sense, I tend to think this is probably just an unfounded rumour. Rather than causing the Corel stock price run-up, it might well be a based in people looking for a reason for the run-up, which is more likely that they got caught up in RHAT's slipstream!
I was writing my own Qt widgets and apps within a few hours (a lazy afternoon at work) of downloading it. It really is incredibly clean and simple (assuming you're comfortable with C++). To create a new widget, just inherit the base class and override a few methods! The signal/slot mechanism for associating actions with events is brilliant. The online documentation for Qt is superb!
While I have not actually programmed with GTK+, it does appear to be a lot more verbose than Qt, and somewhat reminiscent of Motif/Xt programming...:-(
This is actually not as obscure as it may sound. Simply put it relates topology to number theory, thus allowing problems in one domain to be translated to the other. That FLT was able to be solved (albeit not in the same way that Fermat did it) using this technique is an indication of the power of being able to do this: suddenly the power of techniques developed in one domain become applicable to problems in another.
As a practical example, I remember once compressing sparse matrices (parser tables) by mapping them to a graph (one line = a node, with node connectivity defined by line "overlap"), then using a minimal graph coloring heuristic.
As I understand it, Taniyama-Shimura establishes a correspondence between elliptic curves and "modular forms" which are a set of functions that satisfy a certain set of critera, and are based in number theory. Before it was [just] proved, T-S was known to imply FLT, and Andrew Weil's key breakthrough was to prove T-S for the classes of elliptical curves required for FLT. He did this by a novel method of counting both sets (elliptic curves and modular forms), and showing they had the same number of members, hence implying the correspondence. The complete general case of T-S has now been proved. There was a great documentary on FLT a few days ago (PBS I think), which is a must see if it gets reshown.
Remember that cqexpress was a service that added value to ICQ, not competed with it, so imagine how they are likely to view a competitor...
If I'm an ICQ (or AIM in the Microsoft case) user, I'm going to be using the AOL server regardless of which client I use. This isn't about the AOL server - it's about the client and controlling the user base. Why do you think AOL bought Mirabilis? They're not going to give up control just because you say "please"!
AOL blocked cqexpress.com's server access to ICQ, so they don't appear to be any more friendly towards server access than they are to client access (MSN).
Netscape (Navigator/Communicator) comes from Netscape/AOL, while Mozilla is the open source project from mozilla.org (originally based on Navigator, but subsequently rewritten). Netscape 5.0 is being developed by AOL, and is distinct from Mozilla.
While Venerable (St.) Bede was the one who popularised the BC/AD base for the current calendar, it was "Dennis the short" (a monk) who came up with this about 200yrs before Bede, who died in 735.
FWIW St. Bede's bones were moved after his death, and are now at Durham Cathedral, which was built a few hundred years later (completed in 1132), which is still in use today, and has the most awesome stained glass windows. If you're into stained glass, then Coventry Cathedral is also a must-see.
The whole idea of Vertical Multithreading as implemented by MACJ or MTA is to prevent pipeline stalls due to cache misses; if the current thread would miss, then the CPU switches to another thread that wouldn't. In the case of the MTA, it can do this between every instruction, at zero cost! This addresses the growing disparity between CPU and memory access speeds, while keeping cache requirements reasonable.
While a compiler could register allocate in the way you suggest to keep software-based thread context switches cheap, it couldn't address the cache miss issue which needs to be implemented in the CPU itself.
Threading is fine if/when you need it, but if used inappropriately can slow rather than speed development. If you need true concurrency, then you have no choice, but if you're using it as a way to "get around" blocking I/O, you're better switching to a single threaded event driven approach. Debuggging explicit state representation is easier than debugging multithreaded apps.
IMHO multiprocessing is easier to debug than multithreading since you don't have the potential problems of shared data structures unless you're explicitly using shared memory.
The Ars review incorrectly claims that Vertical Multithreading (switching threads at the hardware level when there's a cache miss) is unique to the MAJC architecture.
In fact, this is the basis of Tera Comupter'sMTA (Multithreaded Architecture) processors that are already being evaluated at the San Diego supercomputer center.
Is that you shouldn't swim around in a pool of milk after using a cellphone.
Rats on cellphone:
Rat #1: What's up? Rat #2: Not much. Rat #1: Wanna go swimming? Rat #2: 'kay. Rat #1: Let's go hang on the platform! Rat #2: Nah, let's just swim around...
The ABA article says that this only applies to "internet content hosted in Australia", so either the Aussies are going to be enjoying top quality USA pr0n, or the topless Sheila's are going to be moving to offshore hosts.
I've always thought of a stocks' inclusion in an index as more affecting the stock than the index, since it creates demand for the stock via mutual funds that track the index, and are therefore forced to buy it. In this case that isn't such a big deal, since there arn't too many funds that track the DJIA (many more for the S&P500).
As far as making the DJIA more overvalued, I'm not sure how critical that is. IMHO if/when Microsoft dives, it will quite likely drag down the entire tech sector and hence the NASDAQ at least temporarily, and that would be a much more significant effect than it would have on the DJIA.
I read the story rather sloppily, and on second thoughts would have to agree with you! I think it would be different if RealJukeBox was accessing their server for CDDB type track info, but given that it has no reason to be doing so, it does have a rather unpleasant feel to it.
AFAIK the well documented tendencey for stocks to rise immediately following a split is due to the surprisingly common desire of people to buy whole lots and/or larger amounts of a stock.
So if you have $5K to invest, but the stock is at $100, you can't afford a full lot and may hold back for that reason(!). However, it it splits 2:1 and becomes a $50 stock, then you can now afford your 100 shares. You'd be surprised at the number of intelligent people who think like this!
Of course, as with the "January effect", after a while people play the effect itself, which helps to further propagate it.
CDDB has been doing this quite openly - their web page has top ten list (top 100 also) based on what people are playing and accessing CDDB's servers for.
I don't see the harm in this type of "aggregated" information. Where it does become intrusive is where individuals/organizations are identified, such as in amazon.com's short lived "aggregated" data that identified corporate book sales.
Various out-of-context bits and pieces are made to seem more important than they are. Specifically MS has been accused of manipulating its stock price by reserving money from rich quarters and turning it into profit during poor quarters. But this can only smooth out lumps and bumps, not maintain a long-term growth curve.
Maybe, but it's still illegal. With the valuation of Microsoft's stock (P/E approx. 60), it's very important that they show consistent earnings growth and beat consensus estimates. If they wern't "managing" their earnings, the stock would unlikely have this sort of valuation.
I'm not sure about the legality of speculating on their own stock (selling puts), assuming it's true, but it's certainly artificially supporting the stock. If they genuinely thought the stock was a good value (which they don't!), they'd simply be buying it back...
I fully expect Microsoft's stock to take a serious dive sometime in the next year or two based on decreased earnings growth and declining margins, and some of these additional factors could certainly add to the downward momentum when the tide turns.
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I'm sure if they thought that WinCE had any value as a brand/name they'd have kept it, so this is obviously basically "it's not WinCE, really!" name.
It reminds me of the forever leaking British nuclear power station called Windscale. The Government's eventual reaction to the continuous Windscale bad press was to rename it Sellafield!
If this is true, then it looks as if Redhat's strategy is the archetypal `buy up lots of small companies to boost the CEO's ego'.
I disagree. Cygnus made sense since they're the gcc maintainers and the kernel is definitely written in GNU C, not ANSI C! They also may help RedHat support embedded Linux. Given their (IMO) massively inflated stock price, any stock based aquisition of slightly more tangiable assets makes sense, really! The allure of Corel could be the applications and distribution network, with the shareholder bonus of eliminating a potential Linux stock market distraction.
I hope it isn't true. Any ideas as to what started the rumour?
Even if it might make some sense, I tend to think this is probably just an unfounded rumour. Rather than causing the Corel stock price run-up, it might well be a based in people looking for a reason for the run-up, which is more likely that they got caught up in RHAT's slipstream!
I was writing my own Qt widgets and apps within a few hours (a lazy afternoon at work) of downloading it. It really is incredibly clean and simple (assuming you're comfortable with C++). To create a new widget, just inherit the base class and override a few methods! The signal/slot mechanism for associating actions with events is brilliant. The online documentation for Qt is superb!
:-(
While I have not actually programmed with GTK+, it does appear to be a lot more verbose than Qt, and somewhat reminiscent of Motif/Xt programming...
Dear Santa,
I've been a good boy. Please give me a Lamborghini Diablo.
If you set up elf-cam web site, you should be able to raise the $200K needed for a nice used one.
Spiny
Sheriff John Brown always hated me
;-)
This is actually not as obscure as it may sound. Simply put it relates topology to number theory, thus allowing problems in one domain to be translated to the other. That FLT was able to be solved (albeit not in the same way that Fermat did it) using this technique is an indication of the power of being able to do this: suddenly the power of techniques developed in one domain become applicable to problems in another.
As a practical example, I remember once compressing sparse matrices (parser tables) by mapping them to a graph (one line = a node, with node connectivity defined by line "overlap"), then using a minimal graph coloring heuristic.
As I understand it, Taniyama-Shimura establishes a correspondence between elliptic curves and "modular forms" which are a set of functions that satisfy a certain set of critera, and are based in number theory. Before it was [just] proved, T-S was known to imply FLT, and Andrew Weil's key breakthrough was to prove T-S for the classes of elliptical curves required for FLT. He did this by a novel method of counting both sets (elliptic curves and modular forms), and showing they had the same number of members, hence implying the correspondence. The complete general case of T-S has now been proved. There was a great documentary on FLT a few days ago (PBS I think), which is a must see if it gets reshown.
Disclaimer: IANAL, IANAM.
But I did not shoot the deputy.
IMO, some *much* better computer humor:
http://packetstorm.securify.com/unix-hu mor/
Remember that cqexpress was a service that added value to ICQ, not competed with it, so imagine how they are likely to view a competitor...
If I'm an ICQ (or AIM in the Microsoft case) user, I'm going to be using the AOL server regardless of which client I use. This isn't about the AOL server - it's about the client and controlling the user base. Why do you think AOL bought Mirabilis? They're not going to give up control just because you say "please"!
AOL blocked cqexpress.com's server access to ICQ, so they don't appear to be any more friendly towards server access than they are to client access (MSN).
Netscape (Navigator/Communicator) comes from Netscape/AOL, while Mozilla is the open source project from mozilla.org (originally based on Navigator, but subsequently rewritten). Netscape 5.0 is being developed by AOL, and is distinct from Mozilla.
While Venerable (St.) Bede was the one who popularised the BC/AD base for the current calendar, it was "Dennis the short" (a monk) who came up with this about 200yrs before Bede, who died in 735.
FWIW St. Bede's bones were moved after his death, and are now at Durham Cathedral, which was built a few hundred years later (completed in 1132), which is still in use today, and has the most awesome stained glass windows. If you're into stained glass, then Coventry Cathedral is also a must-see.
The whole idea of Vertical Multithreading as implemented by MACJ or MTA is to prevent pipeline stalls due to cache misses; if the current thread would miss, then the CPU switches to another thread that wouldn't. In the case of the MTA, it can do this between every instruction, at zero cost! This addresses the growing disparity between CPU and memory access speeds, while keeping cache requirements reasonable.
While a compiler could register allocate in the way you suggest to keep software-based thread context switches cheap, it couldn't address the cache miss issue which needs to be implemented in the CPU itself.
Threading is fine if/when you need it, but if used inappropriately can slow rather than speed development. If you need true concurrency, then you have no choice, but if you're using it as a way to "get around" blocking I/O, you're better switching to a single threaded event driven approach. Debuggging explicit state representation is easier than debugging multithreaded apps.
IMHO multiprocessing is easier to debug than multithreading since you don't have the potential problems of shared data structures unless you're explicitly using shared memory.
The Ars review incorrectly claims that Vertical Multithreading (switching threads at the hardware level when there's a cache miss) is unique to the MAJC architecture.
In fact, this is the basis of Tera Comupter'sMTA (Multithreaded Architecture) processors that are already being evaluated at the San Diego supercomputer center.
Here's an important article in Forbes! ;-)
Is that you shouldn't swim around in a pool of milk after using a cellphone.
Rats on cellphone:
Rat #1: What's up?
Rat #2: Not much.
Rat #1: Wanna go swimming?
Rat #2: 'kay.
Rat #1: Let's go hang on the platform!
Rat #2: Nah, let's just swim around...
The ABA article says that this only applies to "internet content hosted in Australia", so either the Aussies are going to be enjoying top quality USA pr0n, or the topless Sheila's are going to be moving to offshore hosts.
I've always thought of a stocks' inclusion in an index as more affecting the stock than the index, since it creates demand for the stock via mutual funds that track the index, and are therefore forced to buy it. In this case that isn't such a big deal, since there arn't too many funds that track the DJIA (many more for the S&P500).
As far as making the DJIA more overvalued, I'm not sure how critical that is. IMHO if/when Microsoft dives, it will quite likely drag down the entire tech sector and hence the NASDAQ at least temporarily, and that would be a much more significant effect than it would have on the DJIA.
BTW the other was SBC communications.
I read the story rather sloppily, and on second thoughts would have to agree with you! I think it would be different if RealJukeBox was accessing their server for CDDB type track info, but given that it has no reason to be doing so, it does have a rather unpleasant feel to it.
AFAIK the well documented tendencey for stocks to rise immediately following a split is due to the surprisingly common desire of people to buy whole lots and/or larger amounts of a stock.
So if you have $5K to invest, but the stock is at $100, you can't afford a full lot and may hold back for that reason(!). However, it it splits 2:1 and becomes a $50 stock, then you can now afford your 100 shares. You'd be surprised at the number of intelligent people who think like this!
Of course, as with the "January effect", after a while people play the effect itself, which helps to further propagate it.
CDDB has been doing this quite openly - their web page has top ten list (top 100 also) based on what people are playing and accessing CDDB's servers for.
I don't see the harm in this type of "aggregated" information. Where it does become intrusive is where individuals/organizations are identified, such as in amazon.com's short lived "aggregated" data that identified corporate book sales.
Various out-of-context bits and pieces are made to seem more important than they are. Specifically MS has been accused of manipulating its stock price by reserving money from rich quarters and turning it into profit during poor quarters. But this can only smooth out lumps and bumps, not maintain a long-term growth curve.
Maybe, but it's still illegal. With the valuation of Microsoft's stock (P/E approx. 60), it's very important that they show consistent earnings growth and beat consensus estimates. If they wern't "managing" their earnings, the stock would unlikely have this sort of valuation.
I'm not sure about the legality of speculating on their own stock (selling puts), assuming it's true, but it's certainly artificially supporting the stock. If they genuinely thought the stock was a good value (which they don't!), they'd simply be buying it back...
I fully expect Microsoft's stock to take a serious dive sometime in the next year or two based on decreased earnings growth and declining margins, and some of these additional factors could certainly add to the downward momentum when the tide turns.
Have you been there recently? Some of the tiles are pretty amazing, particularly the newer series!
Whose stuff do you like better?