I learned something interesting about Google's javascript parser while evaluating various parsers as potential candidates for a scripting engine in an application. The reason it's so fast? It's got a JIT compiler, just like modern Java runtimes. This means that once things get going, JavaScript is going to approach native code speed. Unfortunately it also limits the platforms on which the engine can run. Google is targeting x86 (of course) and ARM (naturally, since they've got their eyes on the mobile market). Interesting times...
What is this "X11" of which you speak? It sounds like some sort of Windows(tm) imitator. How can that be? Our wise leaders at Microsoft told us that using Lunix forces you to live in the command line!
Ooh, I can just imagine... when you're setting it up for the first time, if you configure the time zone as "Israel" the phone explodes, killing everyone in the room.
Someone please send this article to all of the spammers. That way, they'll all move to Fecesbook. I don't have a Fecesbook account, so I don't have to see their spam (for that matter, I'd rather read Viagra ads than "25 Things About Me" pages anyway).
Email isn't going anywhere. Fecesbook is a fad. Everyone has an email account. Email is also (in theory at least) guaranteed delivery.
Assuming that you are actually a Sun employee and not just some anonymous troll... regardless of what the installed base was in the past, it should be implemented now. Berkeley DB is the finest storage engine in the world, and it belongs in MySQL. Oracle's imminent oversight of both code bases presents a good opportunity to make it happen.
By which time, the OS on the desktop will be irrelevant siince Netbooks will completely change the dynamics of the OS market. It will not be a stretch to predict that Linux will establish itself within the next 4 years in all Corporates where people exect their devices to boot instantly and work reliably consuming less resources like mobile phones.
Exactly. What the trade rags seem to miss is that Network Computing *is* happening. It isn't happening nearly as quickly as its proponents trumpeted that it would. It isn't happening in the way that it was originally envisioned (how many of you have a 'network computer' running only Java software?). But it is happening. The shift to server-side computing is in progress and unstoppable.
And don't bother with the usual of chorus of "baaaaaaahhhhhhhhh you will never be able to run Photoshop in teh browser!!!!!1" either. The vast majority of corporate computing tasks involve the type of knowledge management activities that ran perfectly in a 3270 terminal a few decades ago, and never needed a desktop computer in the first place.
Once upon a time, MySQL supported the use of Berkeley DB as one of its back end storage engines. Then Oracle acquired Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB (which was, and still is, open source). MySQL didn't like the idea of Oracle controlling their back end, so they phased out its support.
Now it doesn't matter anymore. Oracle is going to own MySQL and Berkeley DB. In my opinion, Berkeley DB is the finest storage engine on the planet. Either with a relational/schema layer on top of it (like MySQL), or all by itself (in which case it's simple key/value pairs), it is insanely reliable and its performance is excellent. I can't say enough good things about it. So how about it, Oracle? Can we get these two great pieces of software together again?
Don't start with Arch or LFS, start with Ubuntu. As you use it, realize the speed doesn't go away due to a website you've hit, or a longstanding problem with defragging. Think about how no website is dangerous anymore, and how loading programs happens with a click, no dependencies, no BS...and you'll agree with me: if it can't be done in Linux, don't do it.
Amen to that. And/or the converse: any task which can only be done in Windows, isn't worth doing. I've been Microsoft-free for over a decade now and have loved every minute of it.
Amazon EC2 is extremely attractive to spammers. They set up disposable spam servers (often using stolen credit card numbers). Amazon's policy is to shut down the account when this type of activity is detected, but they don't take any steps to keep the spammer from returning and setting up a new account. Based on this practice, the "50,000 VM's per day" seems quite reasonable when you consider the volume of activity that most spammers tend to produce.
If anything, I see this being the closest thing to actually *subvert* Exchange usage in a corporate setting.
Screw that, I see this being something that could subvert Facebook. There's really very little difference between groupware and social media anyway -- it's just how it's optimized and featureized. So let's move back to a world where everyone is working -- or playing -- on the site or server of their choice, yet everyone is still connected together, instead of forcing everyone to join one single site.
Follow the money... and I bet you'll find that this "legal group" is funded by the Big Cable/Telco Lobby, which would very much like to abolish unlimited broadband plans and usher in an age of per-byte billing. It'll be just like the good old days when they could charge megabucks per minute of long distance phone calls.
If it burns extremely hot, it's not a "weed" -- it's potentially "the perfect biofuel."
Really, what's the problem here? A sustainable biofuel crop that produces heat very efficiently, and grows rapidly? Isn't that exactly what the greendroids have been looking for all this time?
Unless Microsoft can manage something like the Rosetta emulator in Mac OS X, which lets PowerPC apps run on x86 machines.
Come on here, we're talking about a company that is putting a virtualized Windows XP inside Vista 7, both running on x86, because their API's are so broken they can't even map them to themselves cleanly. (sup dawg, I heard you like computer crashes so I put a Windows in your Windows, so you can bluescreen while you bluescreen!)
Linux already made MS drop their price, allwing cheap windows netbooks because of linux. It's not out of the question that a really compelling ARM netbook would scare them into ARM support.
And Microsoft would still lose. The only thing Windows really has going for it is the existing library of PC software. That's the network effect that keeps Windows out front, otherwise the market would have dumped Windows ages ago. Windows on ARM runs existing Windows x86 software about as well as Linux does: not at all.
In fact, ARM netbooks running Windows might actually be at a disadvantage relative to Linux. People would see the Windows logo on the box and take it home, assuming that they could run PC-Windows software. When that software fails to load, the netbook gets returned to the store.
Netbooks running Linux on an ARM processor with insanely long battery life and a true dedicated mobile operating system may be what it takes to get people to realize that netbooks were not intended to be merely smaller laptops.
In our data center we've moved a lot of the Windows workloads to virtual servers. That gives you "the console" and "the hardware" even when you're remote, so it's very nice.
Of course, Microsoft will want to run its virtualization on Windows so that could pose a problem for them.:)
I know you don't pay premiums because you're stupid. But think about how much those premiums are actually costing you, what you are getting in return, and if it is worth it.
It's called a "Cost/Benefit Analysis" and every PHB in the world knows how (and when!) to do one.
How can you justify that cost? For $800, you could buy a netbook, a basic smart phone, plus hookers and blow.
You must live in the US, where the cost of a mobile phone is heavily subsidized by multi year contracts for wireless plans. If and when Nokia's new model makes it to the US, expect to see it for $199 when purchased with a two year contract from your wireless carrier.
When the world transitions to IPv6 and cellphones/VoIP finally kill the landline, will separate phone numbers go the way of
the dodo? Will we just give each other an IPv6 address or will there be a "personal" DNS system to connect by name?
You don't need IPv6 for that -- a SIP address looks very similar to an email address, and if you have the right software you can "dial" them right now.
TFA misses an important point -- what we're seeing is the decline of POTS, not landlines in general. Broadband penetration is increasing; it's long since passed its critical mass and will soon be at a point where we can safely call it pervasive. "Triple play" type services are fast becoming the norm, and we will eventually get to a point where there are two providers in almost every locality: one former "phone company" and one former "cable company" -- although the differences between the two are rapidly becoming irrelevant.
The days of having "a phone line" are indeed drawing to a close. We are now entering the era where you simply buy a big digital pipe from one of the carriers in your area, delivered as a piece of coaxial cable, fiber optic cable (if you're lucky), or twisted-pair (if you're unlucky), and telephony is simply one of the services delivered over that pipe.
The true endgame, which I hope we see soon, is the dismantling of the PSTN as we know it -- where central offices become little more than colocation centers for telecom gear; telephone numbers will represent nothing more than an address on the network.
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I learned something interesting about Google's javascript parser while evaluating various parsers as potential candidates for a scripting engine in an application. The reason it's so fast? It's got a JIT compiler, just like modern Java runtimes. This means that once things get going, JavaScript is going to approach native code speed. Unfortunately it also limits the platforms on which the engine can run. Google is targeting x86 (of course) and ARM (naturally, since they've got their eyes on the mobile market). Interesting times...
What is this "X11" of which you speak? It sounds like some sort of Windows(tm) imitator. How can that be? Our wise leaders at Microsoft told us that using Lunix forces you to live in the command line!
No. Microsoft got on the bus and then forced the bus company to turn the bus into a jumbo jet so that Microsoft's fat ass could fit in the seats.
"It just so happens that your status here is only mostly dead. There's a difference between mostly dead, and all dead."
"So... it's complicated?"
But they aren't Rational. Rational is owned by IBM.
Ooh, I can just imagine ... when you're setting it up for the first time, if you configure the time zone as "Israel" the phone explodes, killing everyone in the room.
Someone please send this article to all of the spammers. That way, they'll all move to Fecesbook. I don't have a Fecesbook account, so I don't have to see their spam (for that matter, I'd rather read Viagra ads than "25 Things About Me" pages anyway).
Email isn't going anywhere. Fecesbook is a fad. Everyone has an email account. Email is also (in theory at least) guaranteed delivery.
Assuming that you are actually a Sun employee and not just some anonymous troll ... regardless of what the installed base was in the past, it should be implemented now. Berkeley DB is the finest storage engine in the world, and it belongs in MySQL. Oracle's imminent oversight of both code bases presents a good opportunity to make it happen.
Exactly. What the trade rags seem to miss is that Network Computing *is* happening. It isn't happening nearly as quickly as its proponents trumpeted that it would. It isn't happening in the way that it was originally envisioned (how many of you have a 'network computer' running only Java software?). But it is happening. The shift to server-side computing is in progress and unstoppable.
And don't bother with the usual of chorus of "baaaaaaahhhhhhhhh you will never be able to run Photoshop in teh browser!!!!!1" either. The vast majority of corporate computing tasks involve the type of knowledge management activities that ran perfectly in a 3270 terminal a few decades ago, and never needed a desktop computer in the first place.
Once upon a time, MySQL supported the use of Berkeley DB as one of its back end storage engines. Then Oracle acquired Sleepycat Software, the makers of Berkeley DB (which was, and still is, open source). MySQL didn't like the idea of Oracle controlling their back end, so they phased out its support.
Now it doesn't matter anymore. Oracle is going to own MySQL and Berkeley DB. In my opinion, Berkeley DB is the finest storage engine on the planet. Either with a relational/schema layer on top of it (like MySQL), or all by itself (in which case it's simple key/value pairs), it is insanely reliable and its performance is excellent. I can't say enough good things about it. So how about it, Oracle? Can we get these two great pieces of software together again?
Amen to that. And/or the converse: any task which can only be done in Windows, isn't worth doing. I've been Microsoft-free for over a decade now and have loved every minute of it.
Amazon EC2 is extremely attractive to spammers. They set up disposable spam servers (often using stolen credit card numbers). Amazon's policy is to shut down the account when this type of activity is detected, but they don't take any steps to keep the spammer from returning and setting up a new account. Based on this practice, the "50,000 VM's per day" seems quite reasonable when you consider the volume of activity that most spammers tend to produce.
Screw that, I see this being something that could subvert Facebook. There's really very little difference between groupware and social media anyway -- it's just how it's optimized and featureized. So let's move back to a world where everyone is working -- or playing -- on the site or server of their choice, yet everyone is still connected together, instead of forcing everyone to join one single site.
Follow the money ... and I bet you'll find that this "legal group" is funded by the Big Cable/Telco Lobby, which would very much like to abolish unlimited broadband plans and usher in an age of per-byte billing. It'll be just like the good old days when they could charge megabucks per minute of long distance phone calls.
If it burns extremely hot, it's not a "weed" -- it's potentially "the perfect biofuel."
Really, what's the problem here? A sustainable biofuel crop that produces heat very efficiently, and grows rapidly? Isn't that exactly what the greendroids have been looking for all this time?
Come on here, we're talking about a company that is putting a virtualized Windows XP inside Vista 7, both running on x86, because their API's are so broken they can't even map them to themselves cleanly. (sup dawg, I heard you like computer crashes so I put a Windows in your Windows, so you can bluescreen while you bluescreen!)
And Microsoft would still lose. The only thing Windows really has going for it is the existing library of PC software. That's the network effect that keeps Windows out front, otherwise the market would have dumped Windows ages ago. Windows on ARM runs existing Windows x86 software about as well as Linux does: not at all.
In fact, ARM netbooks running Windows might actually be at a disadvantage relative to Linux. People would see the Windows logo on the box and take it home, assuming that they could run PC-Windows software. When that software fails to load, the netbook gets returned to the store.
Netbooks running Linux on an ARM processor with insanely long battery life and a true dedicated mobile operating system may be what it takes to get people to realize that netbooks were not intended to be merely smaller laptops.
Wow! Only on Slashdot do we see "First Post" getting upgraded! :)
In our data center we've moved a lot of the Windows workloads to virtual servers. That gives you "the console" and "the hardware" even when you're remote, so it's very nice.
:)
Of course, Microsoft will want to run its virtualization on Windows so that could pose a problem for them.
It's called a "Cost/Benefit Analysis" and every PHB in the world knows how (and when!) to do one.
Geez, hasn't everyone heard about Stealther (pr0n mode extension for Firefox) at this point?
You must live in the US, where the cost of a mobile phone is heavily subsidized by multi year contracts for wireless plans. If and when Nokia's new model makes it to the US, expect to see it for $199 when purchased with a two year contract from your wireless carrier.
You don't need IPv6 for that -- a SIP address looks very similar to an email address, and if you have the right software you can "dial" them right now.
TFA misses an important point -- what we're seeing is the decline of POTS, not landlines in general. Broadband penetration is increasing; it's long since passed its critical mass and will soon be at a point where we can safely call it pervasive. "Triple play" type services are fast becoming the norm, and we will eventually get to a point where there are two providers in almost every locality: one former "phone company" and one former "cable company" -- although the differences between the two are rapidly becoming irrelevant.
The days of having "a phone line" are indeed drawing to a close. We are now entering the era where you simply buy a big digital pipe from one of the carriers in your area, delivered as a piece of coaxial cable, fiber optic cable (if you're lucky), or twisted-pair (if you're unlucky), and telephony is simply one of the services delivered over that pipe.
The true endgame, which I hope we see soon, is the dismantling of the PSTN as we know it -- where central offices become little more than colocation centers for telecom gear; telephone numbers will represent nothing more than an address on the network.