Do I *really* need to leap up and learn "Yet Another Markup Language?" (side note...can I patent/copyright/trademark "yet another..."?)
I've been trying to read a bit about WAP at the WAP forum and the W3C but the whole thing strikes me as semi-interim and only half heartedly standard and open.
My basic complaint is the premise. On the one hand we see a whole new type of device with legions of people trying to figure out how to make efficient GUIs while conserving either display space, or storage, or whatnot with WAP...and on the other hand we have multi-zillion dollar companies building infrastructure and vastly powerful processors, that will render the need for "efficiency" as irrelevant as my 2gb hard drive.
My prediction is that we are going to Moore's Law WAP to death in short order ("I'd like 'The Patently Obvious' for $400, Alex")
I know of several online businesses that derive (or plan to) their revenue from banner ads. Talkcity an "online community" recently blocked irc clients that could not display their banner ads. Their stock has dropped from 29 to under 4. I believe that the banner ad business model is a failure, and that many more companies share prices will erode.
I'm sure to get moderated *way* down for this (inflammatory, or whatever) but I'm afraid that for the most part, I agree with these lawsuits. Copying Dr. Dre, Metallica, et al is *clearly* a violation of *current* copyright laws (IANAL). Don't rationalize it, don't say that "the record companies make too much money", don't say its just for your own use, or that "I'm going to delete them in 24 hours, so its legal" (Hint, it's not).
I've seen groups of people in irc chat rooms flaming people unmercifully when they ask questions about hacking/cracking, and these same people have mp3 collections worth *far* more than the commercial software on their systems. This is so hypocritical it drives me crazy.
Yes, I have napster, yes I use it, yes it has opened me up to music that I would not ordinarily listen to and now I'll probably go out and buy some cds that I probably would not have (Nawfel is *really* cool)...but if you don't admit that it's piracy then you are deluding yourself.
I really think that more attention needs to be payed to clustering technologies. I first got started with my cluster about 18 months ago. Beowulf was fairly new, and almost considered to be a black art. After reading and tinkering for a few weeks, I was amazed at how easy it actually is to get things running in parallel. Now, don't get me wrong, like many things its easy to do but hard to do *well*...nevertheless, I'd sure like to see more activity in this area. (IMHO, SMP is going to run out of steam quickly)
All you slashdotters with three or more systems in your basement! Go! Get them networked! Load MPICH or PVM! This should be your mantra:
Apparently its important to AMD, here's a quote from the press release:
"Every schoolchild recognizes Neil Armstrong as the first man to walk on the moon, Roger Bannister as the first to run the four-minute mile, and Edmund Hillary as the first to scale Mt. Everest. Nobody remembers who got there second..."
Right down the hall from me is an 18 node SGI O2K with R12K processors running at (as I recall) 300 mhz...as "supercomputers" go, this one is probably quite average...nothing spectacular. I would be surprised to hear that the pricetag of this system was under $1M.
Of course you can "get a beowulf system going..." and probably cheaper, but IMHO beowulf is more appropriate to attack specific applications that parallelize well and have limited network demands. The O2K, and most successful supercomputers, derive a significant portion of their speedup and scalability through effective node communications. Amdahls law basically...
The coating that is added begins to cloud, degrading the picture. I have faith that there are just as many chemistry "hackers" as their are code slingers....*somebody* will come up with a way to remove the clouded coating.
I believe it was Richard Feynman that said something like "trying to figure out how the universe works by smashing particles into each other is like trying to figure out how a swiss watch works by hurling it against a brick wall and watching the pieces whizz by your head..."
I keep hearing about accelerators with higher and higher energies being proposed for "breakthrough" research. I realise that theory must be confirmed with experimentation, but are there more elegant solutions this problem?
(I recall that the proposed SSC could not be built in Rhode Island because it was too big:))
Obviously, the vast majority of/. readers were unable to attend todays legal proceedings. Are there other ways in which we can participate? Basically, I'd like to write a letter to *someone* saying 1) I am a linux user 2) I want the ability to effectively use the DVD medium on my system 3) I feel that the suit being brought forward is wrong (for all the reasons already put forth here...I won't repeat them)
So, is there a person/congresscritter email/mail address that is appropriate? Ordinarily, I would say that letter writing campaigns are a waste, but in this case I think it could provide a show of force.
adhereing to Moore's law for another decade? I think that translates into about 6 doublings ( doubles every 18 months ) So if you assume that "typical" current capacities are 128MB SDRAMs, 500MHz CPUs, and 20GB drives then we can look forward to 8GB SDRAMS, 32 GHz CPUs (and probably massively parallel SMP ones too:)) and 1.2 TB hard drives (and I'll wager that is on the low end too)
"I'm not a member of an organized political party...I'm a Democrat" - My Brother, and Will Rogers
I'm definitely going to look into these products. I just got a quote from Clariion for their low end network backup device....granted its pretty powerful....multiple cpu/many gig of caching to a DLT autoloader....but its $125,000.00!!!!
Some intrepid linux-er should package a turnkey solution to do this!
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I've been trying to read a bit about WAP at the WAP forum and the W3C but the whole thing strikes me as semi-interim and only half heartedly standard and open.
My basic complaint is the premise. On the one hand we see a whole new type of device with legions of people trying to figure out how to make efficient GUIs while conserving either display space, or storage, or whatnot with WAP ...and on the other hand we have multi-zillion dollar companies building infrastructure and vastly powerful processors, that will render the need for "efficiency" as irrelevant as my 2gb hard drive.
My prediction is that we are going to Moore's Law WAP to death in short order ("I'd like 'The Patently Obvious' for $400, Alex")
I know of several online businesses that derive (or plan to) their revenue from banner ads. Talkcity an "online community" recently blocked irc clients that could not display their banner ads. Their stock has dropped from 29 to under 4. I believe that the banner ad business model is a failure, and that many more companies share prices will erode.
I'm sure to get moderated *way* down for this (inflammatory, or whatever) but I'm afraid that for the most part, I agree with these lawsuits. Copying Dr. Dre, Metallica, et al is *clearly* a violation of *current* copyright laws (IANAL). Don't rationalize it, don't say that "the record companies make too much money", don't say its just for your own use, or that "I'm going to delete them in 24 hours, so its legal" (Hint, it's not).
I've seen groups of people in irc chat rooms flaming people unmercifully when they ask questions about hacking/cracking, and these same people have mp3 collections worth *far* more than the commercial software on their systems. This is so hypocritical it drives me crazy.
Yes, I have napster, yes I use it, yes it has opened me up to music that I would not ordinarily listen to and now I'll probably go out and buy some cds that I probably would not have (Nawfel is *really* cool)...but if you don't admit that it's piracy then you are deluding yourself.
I really think that more attention needs to be payed to clustering technologies. I first got started with my cluster about 18 months ago. Beowulf was fairly new, and almost considered to be a black art. After reading and tinkering for a few weeks, I was amazed at how easy it actually is to get things running in parallel. Now, don't get me wrong, like many things its easy to do but hard to do *well*...nevertheless, I'd sure like to see more activity in this area. (IMHO, SMP is going to run out of steam quickly)
All you slashdotters with three or more systems in your basement! Go! Get them networked! Load MPICH or PVM! This should be your mantra:
"If SuperID can do it, then I certainly can"
Apparently its important to AMD, here's a quote from the press release:
"Every schoolchild recognizes Neil Armstrong as the first man to walk on the moon, Roger Bannister as the first to run the four-minute mile, and Edmund Hillary as the first to scale Mt. Everest. Nobody remembers who got there second..."
Right down the hall from me is an 18 node SGI O2K with R12K processors running at (as I recall) 300 mhz...as "supercomputers" go, this one is probably quite average...nothing spectacular. I would be surprised to hear that the pricetag of this system was under $1M.
Of course you can "get a beowulf system going..." and probably cheaper, but IMHO beowulf is more appropriate to attack specific applications that parallelize well and have limited network demands. The O2K, and most successful supercomputers, derive a significant portion of their speedup and scalability through effective node communications. Amdahls law basically...
Is there an organized DeCSS webring? I have a *horrible* website, but I'd be happy to spruce it up with some links.
The coating that is added begins to cloud, degrading the picture. I have faith that there are just as many chemistry "hackers" as their are code slingers....*somebody* will come up with a way to remove the clouded coating.
I believe it was Richard Feynman that said something like "trying to figure out how the universe works by smashing particles into each other is like trying to figure out how a swiss watch works by hurling it against a brick wall and watching the pieces whizz by your head..."
:))
I keep hearing about accelerators with higher and higher energies being proposed for "breakthrough" research. I realise that theory must be confirmed with experimentation, but are there more elegant solutions this problem?
(I recall that the proposed SSC could not be built in Rhode Island because it was too big
Thanks!
Obviously, the vast majority of /. readers were unable to attend todays legal proceedings. Are there other ways in which we can participate? Basically, I'd like to write a letter to *someone* saying 1) I am a linux user 2) I want the ability to effectively use the DVD medium on my system 3) I feel that the suit being brought forward is wrong (for all the reasons already put forth here...I won't repeat them)
So, is there a person/congresscritter email/mail address that is appropriate? Ordinarily, I would say that letter writing campaigns are a waste, but in this case I think it could provide a show of force.
SuperID
I agree with the recent followups....IR is *not* the way to go. I'm much more interested in Bluetooth but I don't see much activity for linux.
I'm definitely going to look into these products. I just got a quote from Clariion for their low end network backup device....granted its pretty powerful....multiple cpu/many gig of caching to a DLT autoloader....but its $125,000.00!!!!
Some intrepid linux-er should package a turnkey solution to do this!