My powerbook g4 will need to be pried from my cold, dead fingers on my way out of town (the hardware is as good as the software, even if my crotch gets a burning sensation after a few hours), but do you think this could at least become stable running in a virtual environment that provides some standard hardware from the virtual-os's point of view?
Note that the press release mentioned translation as their method, rather than emulation, so the speeds aren't completely impossible.
Either way, sure would be nice to test websites in safari at work!
SOA is web services, except your entire system is a collection of webservices calling each other, and you expose the services you want others to use. This is pretty slow right now, but in-process webservice calls (oxymoron?) will most-likely be the norm in about two years, especially in.net
SOA is what microsoft will be pushing for the new few years, so this term isn't likely to go away regardless of what we think.
Just last night my buddy down the street said the CEO of their company just showed up in the office and said he had been researching things for awhile and was sold on the SOA architechure, and they're moving all their old VB/COM+ code to C#/.NET
The reason O'Reilly's name was brought up is that he recently called the Daily Show's audience a bunch of "pot smoking slackers", which is the whole point of this post.
This is the problem with politics. Football doesn't matter. Cocaine doesn't matter. War service doesn't REALLY matter, since neither had high-level command roles. Ranching doesn't matter.
I'm not seeing any arguments about security or the economy that's about the intellectual level of 2 grade school kids saying "uh-huh" and "nuh-uh".
Do neither of these guys have a plan? Or is this a high school class president election?
We need to re-instate congress into the war approval process. The reason the executive branch has been able to use this power since WWII is because no president has been punished for its abuse. I'm not saying that we should punish this president for going into war, as we had plenty of precident to use force without a declaration of war, but perhaps this country needs to look into stiffer punishments for presidents who use force without declarations of war.
I believe I remember the argument back in March 2003. The issue was that war was declared during the first gulf war, but no peace treaty was met.
So it didn't matter if the use of force was authorized. The Bush administration legally had the right to invade Iraq, because the United States was technically in a state of war with that country.
I seem to remember reading that the altivec has a vector endian-switcher that will change entire blocks of data from little to big-endian and vise-versa...
back at my parents' house, out in the land where they still haven't wired cable and the phone lines are only good enough to get 28.8k, cell phones are next to worthless. My other family members have them just in case they are going into a city sometime and need to call home.
I have a Powerbook and an airport express unit (the wireless usb wallwart thingy), and while playing video on the laptop would be nice, I would also like to use usb to send svideo to my home entertainment center.
This would let me run dvds and games from my laptop on my TV, without having to leave a computer in the living room.
"It is really a futuristic technology," said Harvard project scientist John M. Myers. "Its applications are going to be a lot like the laser and the transistor, in that early people could not think of all the possible applications and uses of it."
I gotta call bullshit on this... I'm having trouble thinking of ways to not apply this technology!
IBM's charisma +3 in my book, not that I had a problem with them before:)
I'd love to get my house wired star trek style, and now (hopefully) this is one less issue I need worry about... where to find reliable open source voice recognition
I work in an office and talk to almost no one in person. In fact there's been many days when the only conversation I had was over IM with people in the same office, which is exactly what I would be doing at home, only I would know that my employer wasn't reading my conversations.
Next, let's offshore INNOVATION to the third world
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of course I don't mean the buzzword "innovation" either.
Make it easy for big, slow corporations to own all of the ideas in the world, and that's exactly what will happen... innovation will shift to areas of the world that aren't covered by the patents, and unfortunately that's only going to be Russia, the Orient, and Africa soon. (hell, those people do need SOMETHING though)
However, as many others here have pointed out, regulation is a swinging pendulum and it will most likely swing back toward something more fair.
Either way, I tend to follow the advice that my dad, and a lot of my friends parents learned in engineering school in the 60's and 70's: don't worry about people suing you, just do it and see if the lawsuit happens. 99.99% of the time no one will notice you, and if they do, you'll probably have a better life than before you came up with the idea anyway.
if I could get funding, I'd quit my job today and start working on maybe using computers to improve the effeciency of solar panels by pointing at the sun better or something... (top of my head example sorry)
I'd like to thing if others had these kind of opportunities, we'd see some fruits.
but I agree, gov't dole for science isn't required.
How is this diffrent than Microsoft's WMA encryption? Every music label I've worked with that utilizes Microsoft's DRM technology issues PERMANENT LICENSES... that is the authentication only occurs when the content is first purchased, and in fact you can backup and restore the licenses 3 times, which means you only get the play the song on 4 machines.
Once you have a license, there is no need to be online.
I don't think a lot of people know what they're talking about when they talk about Microsoft DRM.
don't you think you're being a little harsh on the format? do you have anything to back this stuff up, or did you hear a 32kbit stream and decide that all WMA's suck?
I'm no big microsoft fan, but iTunes does the same "please wait while we contact the server for your license" stuff, it just doesn't tell you about it.
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You can buy videos on the system right now, today. And I will be providing your porn in the near future.
My powerbook g4 will need to be pried from my cold, dead fingers on my way out of town (the hardware is as good as the software, even if my crotch gets a burning sensation after a few hours), but do you think this could at least become stable running in a virtual environment that provides some standard hardware from the virtual-os's point of view?
Note that the press release mentioned translation as their method, rather than emulation, so the speeds aren't completely impossible.
Either way, sure would be nice to test websites in safari at work!
They probably have no idea of what I've seen happen with apple over the last few years in our IT dept
:)
They said I got to choose my OS when I started in 2001... and of course "mac" got me rediculed prety bad, as I expected anyway
Now in 2004, in a deptartment of 12 I know of 5 people that bought powerbooks, and two more with imacs.
I don't think I trust Bill Gates' assessment of the future here....
SOA is web services, except your entire system is a collection of webservices calling each other, and you expose the services you want others to use. This is pretty slow right now, but in-process webservice calls (oxymoron?) will most-likely be the norm in about two years, especially in .net
SOA is what microsoft will be pushing for the new few years, so this term isn't likely to go away regardless of what we think.
Just last night my buddy down the street said the CEO of their company just showed up in the office and said he had been researching things for awhile and was sold on the SOA architechure, and they're moving all their old VB/COM+ code to C#/.NET
I agree with that! No offense. Just saw about 12 comments like that so randomly picked one to say RTFA to. No hard feelings :)
ha! you're funny
RTFA
The reason O'Reilly's name was brought up is that he recently called the Daily Show's audience a bunch of "pot smoking slackers", which is the whole point of this post.
This is the problem with politics. Football doesn't matter. Cocaine doesn't matter. War service doesn't REALLY matter, since neither had high-level command roles. Ranching doesn't matter.
I'm not seeing any arguments about security or the economy that's about the intellectual level of 2 grade school kids saying "uh-huh" and "nuh-uh".
Do neither of these guys have a plan? Or is this a high school class president election?
What I want to know is what we are doing to stop them from continuing their infiltration into our personal lives that we live behind closed doors.
:)
Something tells me it's not voting republican
(disclaimer: joke about marriage amendment... not trying troll)
We need to re-instate congress into the war approval process. The reason the executive branch has been able to use this power since WWII is because no president has been punished for its abuse. I'm not saying that we should punish this president for going into war, as we had plenty of precident to use force without a declaration of war, but perhaps this country needs to look into stiffer punishments for presidents who use force without declarations of war.
I believe I remember the argument back in March 2003. The issue was that war was declared during the first gulf war, but no peace treaty was met.
So it didn't matter if the use of force was authorized. The Bush administration legally had the right to invade Iraq, because the United States was technically in a state of war with that country.
I seem to remember reading that the altivec has a vector endian-switcher that will change entire blocks of data from little to big-endian and vise-versa...
back at my parents' house, out in the land where they still haven't wired cable and the phone lines are only good enough to get 28.8k, cell phones are next to worthless. My other family members have them just in case they are going into a city sometime and need to call home.
I have a Powerbook and an airport express unit (the wireless usb wallwart thingy), and while playing video on the laptop would be nice, I would also like to use usb to send svideo to my home entertainment center.
This would let me run dvds and games from my laptop on my TV, without having to leave a computer in the living room.
"It is really a futuristic technology," said Harvard project scientist John M. Myers. "Its applications are going to be a lot like the laser and the transistor, in that early people could not think of all the possible applications and uses of it."
I gotta call bullshit on this... I'm having trouble thinking of ways to not apply this technology!
IBM's charisma +3 in my book, not that I had a problem with them before :)
I'd love to get my house wired star trek style, and now (hopefully) this is one less issue I need worry about... where to find reliable open source voice recognition
I work in an office and talk to almost no one in person. In fact there's been many days when the only conversation I had was over IM with people in the same office, which is exactly what I would be doing at home, only I would know that my employer wasn't reading my conversations.
your company still has managers? ;)
of course I don't mean the buzzword "innovation" either.
Make it easy for big, slow corporations to own all of the ideas in the world, and that's exactly what will happen... innovation will shift to areas of the world that aren't covered by the patents, and unfortunately that's only going to be Russia, the Orient, and Africa soon. (hell, those people do need SOMETHING though)
However, as many others here have pointed out, regulation is a swinging pendulum and it will most likely swing back toward something more fair.
Either way, I tend to follow the advice that my dad, and a lot of my friends parents learned in engineering school in the 60's and 70's: don't worry about people suing you, just do it and see if the lawsuit happens. 99.99% of the time no one will notice you, and if they do, you'll probably have a better life than before you came up with the idea anyway.
if I could get funding, I'd quit my job today and start working on maybe using computers to improve the effeciency of solar panels by pointing at the sun better or something... (top of my head example sorry)
I'd like to thing if others had these kind of opportunities, we'd see some fruits.
but I agree, gov't dole for science isn't required.
but anyone else ever been at a concert with such low rumbling rediculous bass that you can feel your heart beating a little off?
this only happened to me with dead voices on air, which uses a rediculous about of computer processing, but this was beyond nautious.
How is this diffrent than Microsoft's WMA encryption? Every music label I've worked with that utilizes Microsoft's DRM technology issues PERMANENT LICENSES... that is the authentication only occurs when the content is first purchased, and in fact you can backup and restore the licenses 3 times, which means you only get the play the song on 4 machines.
Once you have a license, there is no need to be online.
I don't think a lot of people know what they're talking about when they talk about Microsoft DRM.
don't you think you're being a little harsh on the format? do you have anything to back this stuff up, or did you hear a 32kbit stream and decide that all WMA's suck?
I'm no big microsoft fan, but iTunes does the same "please wait while we contact the server for your license" stuff, it just doesn't tell you about it.