With XPL (Extensible Programming Language), you cannot say anymore that I know C++, or I know C#.
This would be no different from the current situation. It's not a matter of knowing an OS (Linux/Solaris/Windows) and programming language (C/C++/C#/Java) to get a job now. In many cases, you also need to be to demonstrate experience with the various API's (STL, COM, ATL, OpenGL, SQL, whatever...). Sometimes the particular skills are so exclusive (licensed by very few companies) that only someone who has been in the industry from the very beginning would be considered for a position.
At 1Gbps the limiting factor in most transactions becomes the disk subsystem of one of the hosts, and there isn't a non-multimillion dollar computer that could saturate 10Gbps for any length of time.
Several years ago, a prediction was made, that it would soon be quicker to use the network as a secondary memory store for swap space, rather than using local disk space. I guess this time is coming very soon. Unless of course, disk drive manufacturers start finding ways of making their products faster.
I had this idea of using spare bands in the electromagnetic spectrum to broadcast new tunes and videos, thus allowing people to record them onto magnetic tape, but it seems the broadcasting companies got there first.
I dunno what gym your looking at, but, they can be had for MUCH less than that. I'm currently paying $365/yr, and that's the most I've paid in a long time..last one was an older gym, but, clean and good equipment...about $260/yr with fees and all...
I'm in the UK. Over here, a gym at $35/month would be considered cheap. Mainly because customers are attracted to the few but large multi-purpose centres (swimming pools/restaurant/weight room/cardiovascular equipment). When these first open, the rates are cheap (25 pounds), although once they achieve full membership, the prices are jacked up (75 pounds). They do offer Bronze/Silver/Gold membership, which allow members to use the centre during office-hours/+evenings/+weekends) respectively. As local cities are keen to redevelop brownfield sites, they do "regeneration deals" in which the companies are granted a monopoly in exchange for helping to regenerate that area. So it's more profitable all-around to have one fully used gym, that two nearly full gyms.
So this thing can route 2300 40Gbps interfaces when used in a cluster, that's more capacity than any organization can use at this time, so there is TONS of room to grow.
Multiple point-to-point video conferencing between offices in a company could certainly benefit from thos capacity. How long will it be before PC's come equipped with 1 or 10 Gigabit network cards?
Actually, the standard used is "one of ordinary skill in the art".
My mistake. Although the patents that I have seen defended successfully, are those that have been written by experts.
And it looks like the patent is specific to recording events (in this case, sound events) to a file that's parsed into tracks on the fly
There is a brief mention of video recording in the patent.
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to the field of producing digital audio and video recordings of live performances.
This patent could easily be bypassed by someone else using DVD's instead of CD's. But, as the goal is simply to defeat bootleggers, they only need to produce something that has higher quality than a bootleg tape, rather than something with the quality of a DVD. Compiling a DVD in real-time wouldn't be that difficult; the menus could be prepared beforehand; only the multimedia files would have to be compressed and added before the end of the concert.
If anyone were really serious about finding out about what was in these places, they'd probably use solar-powered "Predator" type drones with video cameras, rather than risk setting off any motion sensors by moving on the ground.
The chief drawback fans cite is that DDR can be addictive, and therefore expensive. In the arcade, it costs from $1 to $1.50 to dance for about six minutes.
Natalie spent $150 the first four months she played.
Which works out to around just under $35/month, which is probably cheaper than a membership at a fitness centre or buying a work-out centre at home. If you were to go out jogging, you'd need to buy sneakers/shorts/workout gear which would probably be just as much.
Buying a console system plus game would probably be about the same but cheaper in the long term.
A patent is supposed to be [1] Not immediately obvious to an expert in the field, and [2] provide some new and original technology.
However, this concept is rather obvious - record a concert from various audio and video sources then compress the data onto a CD. If they have a patent on this process, then it might be defendable. But I can't see how they can defend the concept of recording a live concert onto a CD.
The wind at the bottom will act more like a violin bow, and the harmonics of the primary mode of vibration (i.e., all the multiples of f=1/(7*3600) cycles/second) will be induced into the cable in the stable state.
These vibrations won't be simply transverse, but helical as well (take a long jump rope tied to a doorknob and swing the free end in circles about the rope's axis)
Not forgetting that the atmosphere has different wind velocities at different heights. Assuming the space elevator is aerodynamically shaped, this won't be a problem. Certainly, skyscraper architects have to deal with similar problems when designing a new office block.
Try to order an "Americano". Funny name right? It's an espresso with hot water. It tastes like espresso, just a tad bit sweeter and not as strong. But correctly made it is not sour or bitter, just good, strong coffee. Every cafe with a real barista can make this.
Remember when the x86 workstations began to eat into SGIs bottom line? They responded with building x86 workstations. The same thing is happening to Sun. Their SPARC servers are not keeping up with x86 servers, just as SGI IRIX/MIPS workstations began to lag in performance.
Now before the slashdot crowd begins to scream "But hey! The Sun Fire V480 is really fast!", remember that it is $19,995.00 in the base configuration. You'll get 10 IBM rack servers for the same price. In a clustered enterprise situation 20 3GHz Xeon will perform better than 2 900MHz UltraSPARC. Especially if we are talking Java.
Just as SGI was faster in the absolute high-end, so is Sun. The E15k is a monster. For some very specialized applications, this may be the only way to go. But for the very large majority of systems being purchased, a simple x86 server will do, especially if you can cluster it. This is where Sun is loosing the grip. Earlier you had to have a SPARC machine for advanced enterprise computing. These days are over, just as you had to have a SGI to run 3D software.
Now they are competing head to head with Dell in the x86 arena. This is a bold move. Wonder how long they will last.
I'm looking into buying a server for running an EJB container. What options do I have? 1) Sun SPARC. Buy a Fire 280R for 7999$ 2) IBM x86. Netfinity XSERIES 305 for about 1500$ with 2.67GHz P4. Ok, the IBM one don't have Fibre Channel hard disks, but so what? I don't need them. For running Java, x86 is THE choice. Sun will still be the choice for running Oracle, but for how long?
Haven't you tried the wonderful flipper that was bundled with Windows 95? Space Cadet, a game devoid of all similarities compared to a regular pinball game.
Moving a renderfarm to a Linux cluster isn't surprising. Since rendering is an "Embarrassingly parallel" computation and AMD/Intel has more FLOPS/$ compared to the MIPS processors, this is expected. When you need to pass a lot of data between processors, you'll need one of those Origin 3000 servers with 1000 processors. Linux can't do this yet.
What is interesting though, is that they moved the workstation applications from SGI to Linux. I didn't know that the SGI hardware was lagging behind that much.
This installer has been available to the Debian developers for how long? 2 years? It's unbelievable that they haven't been using it earlier. No, they had to write it from scratch, and it is still not finished.
I have been using WebLogic since 6.0, and I am under heavy pressure to make the switch to JBoss. The problem is just that THE DOCUMENTATION SUCKS.
If you are working for free and have the time to look into the JBoss code, it might be ok. But for everyone who loves great documentation and standards compliance, there is no need to look back from WebLogic. I need SOAP access to my system, and there is no documentation whatsoever from JBOss. Guess if there is an entire book devoted to this in WebLogic?
When JBoss gets proper documentation, I'll be the first one to make the switch.
A windowmanager that involves X, what's next? An text editor that opens (gasp!) text-files?
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> EJB is respectable if you're a CORBA or RMI shop.
Mind you, I'm developing a system for distributed learning, and as the back-end I've got EJBs and I expose the interfaces trough SOAP. I think it's sweet to expose the power of EJB with SOAP.
Remember when SGI tried to get into the NT-workstation market? This is exactly the same thing! Sun will be making overpriced x86-boxes with proprietary crap on them, just like SGI. This just won't work.
I don't want to buy a product made for stopping criminals that is called "SmoothWall". This is like calling a Rottweiler "Sugar". Gimme a better name, like "Brickwall", "Barbed wire" or "Minefield.
In Europe, you can theoretically get 2Mbit/s up and downlink per cell. This won't be the case in real life, because you'd be using the entire cells capacity! Probably the highest speeds you'll see will be 512kbit/s raw bandwidth (w/o header overhead). But you'll be guaranteed that bandwidth, which is not the case with 802.11.
But with 3G the cells can be much smaller than compared with GSM. They can also "breathe" in order to reduce/expand in size to provide the best possible service. The smallest cells are called "hot spots" and can accomodate, say, a mall.
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With XPL (Extensible Programming Language), you cannot say anymore that I know C++, or I know C#.
This would be no different from the current situation. It's not a matter of knowing an OS (Linux/Solaris/Windows) and programming language (C/C++/C#/Java) to get a job now. In many cases, you also need to be to demonstrate experience with the various API's (STL, COM, ATL, OpenGL, SQL, whatever...). Sometimes the particular skills are so exclusive (licensed by very few companies) that only someone who has been in the industry from the very beginning would be considered for a position.
At 1Gbps the limiting factor in most transactions becomes the disk subsystem of one of the hosts, and there isn't a non-multimillion dollar computer that could saturate 10Gbps for any length of time.
Several years ago, a prediction was made, that it would soon be quicker to use the network as a secondary memory store for swap space, rather than using local disk space. I guess this time is coming very soon. Unless of course, disk drive manufacturers start finding ways of making their products faster.
I had this idea of using spare bands in the electromagnetic spectrum to broadcast new tunes and videos, thus allowing people to record them onto magnetic tape, but it seems the broadcasting companies got there first.
Yeah, 'cause I'm sure there are no radars or aerial surveillance at Groom Lake.
even a radio-controlled model with a 52" wingspan?
So, would this be the same BBC who force us to load proprietary and intrusive software (RealPlayer) in order to listen to their audio streams?
Don't forget that it was the same BBC who introduced the 'Dirac' compression algorithm as an Open Source project.
At $35/mo, that's $420/yr...
I dunno what gym your looking at, but, they can be had for MUCH less than that. I'm currently paying $365/yr, and that's the most I've paid in a long time..last one was an older gym, but, clean and good equipment...about $260/yr with fees and all...
I'm in the UK. Over here, a gym at $35/month would be considered cheap. Mainly because customers are attracted to the few but large multi-purpose centres (swimming pools/restaurant/weight room/cardiovascular equipment). When these first open, the rates are cheap (25 pounds), although once they achieve full membership, the prices are jacked up (75 pounds). They do offer Bronze/Silver/Gold membership, which allow members to use the centre during office-hours/+evenings/+weekends) respectively. As local cities are keen to redevelop brownfield sites, they do "regeneration deals" in which the companies are granted a monopoly in exchange for helping to regenerate that area. So it's more profitable all-around to have one fully used gym, that two nearly full gyms.
So this thing can route 2300 40Gbps interfaces when used in a cluster, that's more capacity than any organization can use at this time, so there is TONS of room to grow.
Multiple point-to-point video conferencing between offices in a company could certainly benefit from thos capacity. How long will it be before PC's come equipped with 1 or 10 Gigabit network cards?
Actually, the standard used is "one of ordinary skill in the art".
My mistake. Although the patents that I have seen defended successfully, are those that have been written by experts.
And it looks like the patent is specific to recording events (in this case, sound events) to a file that's parsed into tracks on the fly
There is a brief mention of video recording in the patent.
TECHNICAL FIELD OF THE INVENTION
The present invention relates generally to the field of producing digital audio and video recordings of live performances.
This patent could easily be bypassed by someone else using DVD's instead of CD's. But, as the goal is simply to defeat bootleggers, they only need to produce something that has higher quality than a bootleg tape, rather than something with the quality of a DVD. Compiling a DVD in real-time wouldn't be that difficult; the menus could be prepared beforehand; only the multimedia files would have to be compressed and added before the end of the concert.
If anyone were really serious about finding out about what was in these places, they'd probably use solar-powered "Predator" type drones with video cameras, rather than risk setting off any motion sensors by moving on the ground.
One paragraph in the article reads:
The chief drawback fans cite is that DDR can be addictive, and therefore expensive. In the arcade, it costs from $1 to $1.50 to dance for about six minutes.
Natalie spent $150 the first four months she played.
Which works out to around just under $35/month, which is probably cheaper than a membership at a fitness centre or buying a work-out centre at home. If you were to go out jogging, you'd need to buy sneakers/shorts/workout gear which would probably be just as much.
Buying a console system plus game would probably be about the same but cheaper in the long term.
A patent is supposed to be [1] Not immediately obvious to an expert in the field, and [2] provide some new and original technology.
However, this concept is rather obvious - record a concert from various audio and video sources then compress the data onto a CD. If they have a patent on this process, then it might be defendable. But I can't see how they can defend the concept of recording a live concert onto a CD.
The wind at the bottom will act more like a violin bow, and the harmonics of the primary mode of vibration (i.e., all the multiples of f=1/(7*3600) cycles/second) will be induced into the cable in the stable state.
These vibrations won't be simply transverse, but helical as well (take a long jump rope tied to a doorknob and swing the free end in circles about the rope's axis)
Not forgetting that the atmosphere has different wind velocities at different heights. Assuming the space elevator is aerodynamically shaped, this won't be a problem. Certainly, skyscraper architects have to deal with similar problems when designing a new office block.
Try to order an "Americano". Funny name right? It's an espresso with hot water. It tastes like espresso, just a tad bit sweeter and not as strong. But correctly made it is not sour or bitter, just good, strong coffee. Every cafe with a real barista can make this.
Remember when the x86 workstations began to eat into SGIs bottom line? They responded with building x86 workstations. The same thing is happening to Sun. Their SPARC servers are not keeping up with x86 servers, just as SGI IRIX/MIPS workstations began to lag in performance.
Now before the slashdot crowd begins to scream "But hey! The Sun Fire V480 is really fast!", remember that it is $19,995.00 in the base configuration. You'll get 10 IBM rack servers for the same price. In a clustered enterprise situation 20 3GHz Xeon will perform better than 2 900MHz UltraSPARC. Especially if we are talking Java.
Just as SGI was faster in the absolute high-end, so is Sun. The E15k is a monster. For some very specialized applications, this may be the only way to go. But for the very large majority of systems being purchased, a simple x86 server will do, especially if you can cluster it. This is where Sun is loosing the grip. Earlier you had to have a SPARC machine for advanced enterprise computing. These days are over, just as you had to have a SGI to run 3D software.
Now they are competing head to head with Dell in the x86 arena. This is a bold move. Wonder how long they will last.
I'm looking into buying a server for running an EJB container. What options do I have?
1) Sun SPARC. Buy a Fire 280R for 7999$
2) IBM x86. Netfinity XSERIES 305 for about 1500$ with 2.67GHz P4.
Ok, the IBM one don't have Fibre Channel hard disks, but so what? I don't need them. For running Java, x86 is THE choice. Sun will still be the choice for running Oracle, but for how long?
Hello?
Haven't you tried the wonderful flipper that was bundled with Windows 95? Space Cadet, a game devoid of all similarities compared to a regular pinball game.
Moving a renderfarm to a Linux cluster isn't surprising. Since rendering is an "Embarrassingly parallel" computation and AMD/Intel has more FLOPS/$ compared to the MIPS processors, this is expected. When you need to pass a lot of data between processors, you'll need one of those Origin 3000 servers with 1000 processors. Linux can't do this yet.
What is interesting though, is that they moved the workstation applications from SGI to Linux. I didn't know that the SGI hardware was lagging behind that much.
Why? Is it written in 386 assembly or what?
This installer has been available to the Debian developers for how long? 2 years? It's unbelievable that they haven't been using it earlier. No, they had to write it from scratch, and it is still not finished.
I have been using WebLogic since 6.0, and I am under heavy pressure to make the switch to JBoss. The problem is just that THE DOCUMENTATION SUCKS.
If you are working for free and have the time to look into the JBoss code, it might be ok. But for everyone who loves great documentation and standards compliance, there is no need to look back from WebLogic. I need SOAP access to my system, and there is no documentation whatsoever from JBOss. Guess if there is an entire book devoted to this in WebLogic?
When JBoss gets proper documentation, I'll be the first one to make the switch.
> niche codebase involving fairly obscure stuff (X)
Oh My God!
A windowmanager that involves X, what's next? An text editor that opens (gasp!) text-files?
> EJB is respectable if you're a CORBA or RMI shop.
Mind you, I'm developing a system for distributed learning, and as the back-end I've got EJBs and I expose the interfaces trough SOAP. I think it's sweet to expose the power of EJB with SOAP.
Mikael
Remember when SGI tried to get into the NT-workstation market? This is exactly the same thing! Sun will be making overpriced x86-boxes with proprietary crap on them, just like SGI. This just won't work.
Mikael
I don't want to buy a product made for stopping criminals that is called "SmoothWall". This is like calling a Rottweiler "Sugar". Gimme a better name, like "Brickwall", "Barbed wire" or "Minefield.
Mikael
In Europe, you can theoretically get 2Mbit/s up and downlink per cell. This won't be the case in real life, because you'd be using the entire cells capacity! Probably the highest speeds you'll see will be 512kbit/s raw bandwidth (w/o header overhead). But you'll be guaranteed that bandwidth, which is not the case with 802.11.
But with 3G the cells can be much smaller than compared with GSM. They can also "breathe" in order to reduce/expand in size to provide the best possible service. The smallest cells are called "hot spots" and can accomodate, say, a mall.
Mikael