Intel must be collectively quivering in their proverbial shoes after this conference. After watching and listening, I am wondering, are we seeing the Next Great Innovation(tm) in processors? The paradigm that Transmeta has created with Crusoe is so different, I have the feeling I was watching a new chapter of the history of computing being written before my very eyes.
What is does under the hood, between it's translation of instructions and its optimization of the actual code (profiling on the fly), is phenomenal.
The only thing Y2K did was cost me a night of sleep, as I had to work (as I'm sure many of you did).
Yes, some things would have failed had people not prepared. No, I don't think the world would have ended, or even close to it. 'Better safe than sorry' is what I'm hearing from those who advocated those huge Y2K budgets today.
The really funny thing is, IT spending is expected to rise AGAIN this year, after all of the (some wasted) dollars spent on the 'Y2K Bug' (it wasn't a bug, it was a feature!).
You missed my point. Where did I say ALL doctors are unethical or ALL doctors play golf 3 days a wekk. I happen to know a few who do. I also know some very hard working doctors (hard working != ethical). I also know some very ethical ones.
My point was that you cannot simply state that doctors as a profession have ethics, any more than most other professions.
At least I log in to make my comments, right or wrong. They are my opinons, nothing more:)
What do you base that on? Doctors are ethical as much as any other group is ethical, i.e. it varies from person to person. Dr Mengele anyone? How about the doctors in the US who participated in programs testing the effects of radiation on unsuspecting citizens?
Just because someone has an MD, that does not make them ethical. In fact, given how much most doctors charge hard working people for necessary services (then take 3 days off a week to golf), I'd say the medical profession isn't a sterling example of ethics.
>1) Software RAID is usually a lot faster than >hardware RAID. And for the money you save on the >HW controller you could buy faster/more >disks.
Since when? I've been working on servers with and without RAID for ten years now, and this is the first time I've EVER seen this claim. Was that a typo? Hardware RAID is much faster usually, as well as more reliable. Yes, it can be harder to set up, but in the end it is well worth it. Remember, you get what you pay for. Any time you use software to do a job that hardware can handle, you are devoting CPU cycles to it. Properly designed RAID controllers offset a ton of processing that would otherwise be done by the host CPU. They don't put RISC processors on RAID controllers just for show:-)
As for SCSI controllers, I'll echo what others here have said. Mylex is one of the best. Not the easiest to config, but by far one of the fastest and most reliable controllers out there.
Palm Computing will license the PalmOS, otherwise we wouldn't have the Visor. I'd look for other companies to start creating devices based on PalmOS, and not just via partnerships. That is, I expect to see third party devices, a la the Visor, soon.
That doesn't make it the kind of monopoly that MS is, and would most definitely spur innovation as hardware vendors compete for the market by adding wonderful new features;-)
I'll wait and see what kind of performance it really delivers, but I'm hopeful. I've been following what little info there is on ATI's up-and-coming, and what I've read looks really promising. Every other frame is rendered by one of two processors, so while one is displaying, the other is already rendering the next frame. Yum:-)
The report does indeed seem to include a lot of speculation, and I have not been able to verify all of the facts. Regardless, the types of things that are alleged are done by many companies, for various, often less-than-ethical reasons.
The bottom line is usually 'what goes around comes around'. -IF- MS is really crossing the line with regards to how they cook the books, it will catch up with them.
'Creative accounting' is used by most major corporations, Billy G didn't invent it.
StarWars is just as old? Interesting take, since it isn't. And taking a tagline that is relatively wise, regardless of where, hardly means I'm a hypocrite:-)
All good things come to an end. Is it really all that bad of a thing? Perhaps it is better to stop, rather than create the same old same old, or other dissapointing material.
If there are 120,000 people who actually bothered to sign up, the real number is probably more like 1,200,000+ (not counting servers/routers,etc.)
Offtopic: What is this pathological need people seem to have to post first? Judging from the number of people who always send their 'I'm first', off topic posts, I'd say parents need to monitor their kids better;-)
Back on topic: Does it really matter how many people are running Linux? I can see -some- value in it, but people seem far too concerned with 'market share'. A free OS shouldn't care about market share, as long as developers are coding for the OS (which they are).
Ok, back to some more mudane activities, like brewing beer (homebrew beer for homebrewed OS'es!).
Think about an OS/Hardware combination that could run multiple native binaries from vastly different CPU architectures, all on one (meta)processor...No need for software emulation or add on processor boards.
Yes...I can imagine how hairy this could be to design and implement, but having a (meta)cpu that can handle much of the work -in hardware- would make it approachable.
I -really- like the Babelcpu name that someone posted here:-)
It already can be a major problem with regards to private WAN links. I've seen more than one occaision when a location on a WAN loses connectivity due to a fibre cut. It isn't pretty, and it makes my life interesting at times;-)
The important thing to remember is that most Win9x users don't have to install their OS; it comes preloaded on their PC. I agree that, by and large, Linux is usally easier to install from scratch these days. I would submit, however, that Linux -needs- to be much easier to install than Windows (of any flavor), if it is to become anything approaching a mainstream desktop OS.
Capturing server-space isn't hard when you have tech folks who can install just about any OS. Getting your average, 'i think I know enough about PC's' Joe to install it on his family PC is another matter, for just about any existing OS.
The important thing to remember is that most Win9x users don't have to install their OS; it comes preloaded on their PC. I agree that, by and large, Linux is usally easier to install from scratch these days. I would submit, however, that Linux -needs- to be much easier to install than Windows (of any flavor), if it is to become anything approaching a mainstream desktop OS.
Capturing server-space isn't hard when you have tech folks who can install just about any OS. Getting your average, 'i think I know enough about PC's' Joe to install it on his family PC is another matter, for just about any existing OS.
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Intel must be collectively quivering in their proverbial shoes after this conference. After watching and listening, I am wondering, are we seeing the Next Great Innovation(tm) in processors? The paradigm that Transmeta has created with Crusoe is so different, I have the feeling I was watching a new chapter of the history of computing being written before my very eyes.
What is does under the hood, between it's translation of instructions and its optimization of the actual code (profiling on the fly), is phenomenal.
The only thing Y2K did was cost me a night of sleep, as I had to work (as I'm sure many of you did).
Yes, some things would have failed had people not prepared. No, I don't think the world would have ended, or even close to it. 'Better safe than sorry' is what I'm hearing from those who advocated those huge Y2K budgets today.
The really funny thing is, IT spending is expected to rise AGAIN this year, after all of the (some wasted) dollars spent on the 'Y2K Bug' (it wasn't a bug, it was a feature!).
I just want to catch up on my sleep now...
You missed my point. Where did I say ALL doctors are unethical or ALL doctors play golf 3 days a wekk. I happen to know a few who do. I also know some very hard working doctors (hard working != ethical). I also know some very ethical ones.
:)
My point was that you cannot simply state that doctors as a profession have ethics, any more than most other professions.
At least I log in to make my comments, right or wrong. They are my opinons, nothing more
What do you base that on? Doctors are ethical as much as any other group is ethical, i.e. it varies from person to person. Dr Mengele anyone? How about the doctors in the US who participated in programs testing the effects of radiation on unsuspecting citizens?
Just because someone has an MD, that does not make them ethical. In fact, given how much most doctors charge hard working people for necessary services (then take 3 days off a week to golf), I'd say the medical profession isn't a sterling example of ethics.
>1) Software RAID is usually a lot faster than >hardware RAID. And for the money you save on the >HW controller you could buy faster/more
:-)
>disks.
Since when? I've been working on servers with and without RAID for ten years now, and this is the first time I've EVER seen this claim. Was that a typo? Hardware RAID is much faster usually, as well as more reliable. Yes, it can be harder to set up, but in the end it is well worth it. Remember, you get what you pay for. Any time you use software to do a job that hardware can handle, you are devoting CPU cycles to it. Properly designed RAID controllers offset a ton of processing that would otherwise be done by the host CPU. They don't put RISC processors on RAID controllers just for show
As for SCSI controllers, I'll echo what others here have said. Mylex is one of the best. Not the easiest to config, but by far one of the fastest and most reliable controllers out there.
Palm Computing will license the PalmOS, otherwise we wouldn't have the Visor. I'd look for other companies to start creating devices based on PalmOS, and not just via partnerships. That is, I expect to see third party devices, a la the Visor, soon.
;-)
That doesn't make it the kind of monopoly that MS is, and would most definitely spur innovation as hardware vendors compete for the market by adding wonderful new features
I highly doubt that Motif will be GPL'ed. This is probably just an example of miscommunication.
I'll wait and see what kind of performance it really delivers, but I'm hopeful. I've been following what little info there is on ATI's up-and-coming, and what I've read looks really promising. Every other frame is rendered by one of two processors, so while one is displaying, the other is already rendering the next frame. Yum :-)
The report does indeed seem to include a lot of speculation, and I have not been able to verify all of the facts. Regardless, the types of things that are alleged are done by many companies, for various, often less-than-ethical reasons.
The bottom line is usually 'what goes around comes around'. -IF- MS is really crossing the line with regards to how they cook the books, it will catch up with them.
'Creative accounting' is used by most major corporations, Billy G didn't invent it.
StarWars is just as old? Interesting take, since it isn't. And taking a tagline that is relatively wise, regardless of where, hardly means I'm a hypocrite :-)
All good things come to an end. Is it really all that bad of a thing? Perhaps it is better to stop, rather than create the same old same old, or other dissapointing material.
If there are 120,000 people who actually bothered to sign up, the real number is probably more like 1,200,000+ (not counting servers/routers,etc.)
;-)
Offtopic: What is this pathological need people seem to have to post first? Judging from the number of people who always send their 'I'm first', off topic posts, I'd say parents need to monitor their kids better
Back on topic: Does it really matter how many people are running Linux? I can see -some- value in it, but people seem far too concerned with 'market share'. A free OS shouldn't care about market share, as long as developers are coding for the OS (which they are).
Ok, back to some more mudane activities, like brewing beer (homebrew beer for homebrewed OS'es!).
Think about an OS/Hardware combination that could run multiple native binaries from vastly different CPU architectures, all on one (meta)processor...No need for software emulation or add on processor boards.
:-)
Yes...I can imagine how hairy this could be to design and implement, but having a (meta)cpu that can handle much of the work -in hardware- would make it approachable.
I -really- like the Babelcpu name that someone posted here
It already can be a major problem with regards to private WAN links. I've seen more than one occaision when a location on a WAN loses connectivity due to a fibre cut. It isn't pretty, and it makes my life interesting at times ;-)
The important thing to remember is that most Win9x users don't have to install their OS; it comes preloaded on their PC. I agree that, by and large, Linux is usally easier to install from scratch these days. I would submit, however, that Linux -needs- to be much easier to install than Windows (of any flavor), if it is to become anything approaching a mainstream desktop OS.
Capturing server-space isn't hard when you have tech folks who can install just about any OS. Getting your average, 'i think I know enough about PC's' Joe to install it on his family PC is another matter, for just about any existing OS.
The important thing to remember is that most Win9x users don't have to install their OS; it comes preloaded on their PC. I agree that, by and large, Linux is usally easier to install from scratch these days. I would submit, however, that Linux -needs- to be much easier to install than Windows (of any flavor), if it is to become anything approaching a mainstream desktop OS.
Capturing server-space isn't hard when you have tech folks who can install just about any OS. Getting your average, 'i think I know enough about PC's' Joe to install it on his family PC is another matter, for just about any existing OS.