Work can get boring. That's why over the summer I work on a personal project. Sometimes a new technology that looks interesting just for kicks, sometimes even an idea from work that was shot down by management.
I both work and go to grad school. I find this keeps them both interesting too. It's exciting when you can apply grad tech to a project in development.
In case you're interested, I fell in love with OS X and Java. OS X has a wonderful programming environment called Cocoa, and my personal project is to better learn the Java API through writing apps. Find a cool technology and fall in love with programming again!
At some point, international aid agencies are going to start distributing simple inexpensive computers to thirdworld villages.
Actually, at some point, third-world villages will be first-world towns. There was a time not too long ago when Americans thought Japan, Korea and Singapore would do nothing but grow rice and subsist on aid. That's already changed for lots of South America, and is rapidly changing in South and South East Asia.
Sure, for example, we don't have an Office killer *currently*, but where exactly does he explain why we can never have one? Nobody can seriously be so conned by Microsoft as to believe that we'll always be playing catch-up.
I think the author is saying that because most Linux On The Desktop efforts are copies of MS products, they will always be behind because as we copy one feature, MS makes another.
The more interesting statement to me is the Drucker quote to the effect that no one defeats a market leader at his own game. I have been reading The Innovator's Dilemma and Christensen provides compelling evidence of this. Instead, market leaders were defeated when the market changed under them. "Web appliances", embedded, and yes server may make more sense.
It doesn't support the original PowerBook G3 at allApple's new OS doesn't support hardware they were shipping only 18 months ago. Now that's service with a smile!
You are correct that OS X does not support the original PowerBook G3. You are incorrect in understanding which model this refers to. The original PowerBook G3 was a PowerBook 3400 fitted with a G3 chip, released sometime around 1996. I own the first PowerBook G3 Series to which you refer; I bought it in May 1998, and it runs OS X very well, thank you. It is my main dev platform.
So OX X supports hardware at least three and a half years old.
Actually, if you did CPR on pygmy rhinos, it would be useful for you learn CPR on South American pygmy rhinos. It would be especially useful for you to learn how South Americans did CPR on pygmy rhinos, because they might do something better that you could learn from.
Linus should try to learn instead of pretending others have nothing interesting to teach him.
Amazingly, it seems standards-based free wireless access is spreading in independent cafes, if this article is to be believed. Anyone in the bay area try this?
Amazing that Macintosh is now synonymous with standards-based.
Actually, competition is the best (and ultimately the only) way of making things better. See also "Natural selection" and "Free enterprise". Living under a rock only results in getting passed by.
Linus seems to recognise this by stating the diversity in distros is good. But then he doesn't care and doesn't learn about diversity in OSes.
He seems as unbiased as Gates. At least Bill doesn't have his head in the sand.
Agreed. The article holds mainstream news journalism up in high regard, but I would argue it is even worse than tech journalism. If you've spent any time at all abroad you'll understand.
All of our news coverage is horribly American-centric. A cat getting rescued from a tree in some suburb always beats out global conflicts, civil wars, or humanitarian disasters. When a foriegn story is aired, loaded terms such as "terrorist" or "gunman" are used without much reason or explanation. Reporters are always live at photo-op places at inopportune times when investigative reporting would be better done elsewhere. Sound-bites are the order of the day.
Yes, tech journalism could be better. But all journalism should be better. Journalism is biased sound-bites because that's what consumers want. We should constantly demand and reward higher standards. Yes, I have been disappointed with/. especially recently. Until someone starts a better service, lets do what we can and moderate this one better.
The patent rights granted in Brasil are actually granted by the Brasilian Government. Since they grant the rights, it stands to reason they can also take these away. In fact, Brasilian law says these rights can be taken away in case of war or national emergency. The US has such eminent domain laws too. By saying that Brasil can not choose to override patents that they have granted you are saying that a soverign democracy can not choose the laws they make or change.
As for research being affected, the company knew the law before it invested in research, and that didnt seem to stop them. In fact, if someone can't pay, the company doesn't get money whether the patient lives or dies. You can't squeeze blood from a stone. Instead, companies expect to make money from the people that can pay.
Patents are granted for the benefit of society. Democracies are allowed to choose the laws they believe benefit them the most. By saying corporations should be granted absolute unchangable rights you are taking away from democracy and supporting a corporation-dominated world. It's a frightening trend seen even here on/.
if you've got a small device that you want to conserve power on, and only communicate small distances, Bluetooth's ideal. If you've got a lot of power, a la a notebook computer, and want to communicate 150 ft., then 802.11 is what you want. Imagine that: Different uses! Different standards! Amazing!
If you can view it on your screen, through a machine you own, you can make a digital duplicate of it! That's all there is to it, no matter how long the big companies try to struggle to come up with the next best way to cripple/encrypt the content that you have paid for.
People thought that about VCRs and DVDs too. But all they have to do is make it harder than $10 worth of effort, and people will pay.
When everyone is using the latest Sony gamestation-netappliance, it will be easy to build in protections to get the consumer to pay.
If it is really good I'll actually pay to go and watch it when it comes out. They are not good enough quality to replace the real thing and no substitute for the big screen.
Except that the extended version of Moore's Law says "Everything in computing gets mad better shortly".
So in a couple of years an internet download/will/ be a substitute for the big screen, and the only question left will be are people paying for downloads or not?
The original artisans did not leave complete instructions for making their steel, and the few written formulas are less than helpful. Some advise quenching the red-hot blade in the urine of a red-haired boy or of a goat fed nothing but ferns. Another text suggests driving the sword into the belly of a muscular slave.
I've heard of job security code, but this is ridiculous!
Many of these fits can take days, and, since they often have to be repeated many times with slight changes to the fitted function or initial parameters, this is a serious concern.
3. Can I take my software and run it on a Beowulf and have it go faster?
[1999-05-13]
Maybe, if you put some work into it. You need to split it into
parallel tasks that communicate using MPI or PVM or network sockets or
SysV IPC. Then you need to recompile it.
Or, as Greg Lindahl points out, if you just want to run the same
program a few thousand times with different input files, a shell script
will suffice.
The dual processor G4e manages a sustained 11.8 gigaflops. The peak is much higher. More info here.
The PowerPC G4 is a Very Nice Processor. It's too bad enough people don't recognise that. Maybe now with OS X and G4 processor boards for other architectures, development will start.
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Work can get boring. That's why over the summer I work on a personal project. Sometimes a new technology that looks interesting just for kicks, sometimes even an idea from work that was shot down by management.
I both work and go to grad school. I find this keeps them both interesting too. It's exciting when you can apply grad tech to a project in development.
In case you're interested, I fell in love with OS X and Java. OS X has a wonderful programming environment called Cocoa, and my personal project is to better learn the Java API through writing apps. Find a cool technology and fall in love with programming again!
At some point, international aid agencies are going to start distributing simple inexpensive computers to thirdworld villages.
Actually, at some point, third-world villages will be first-world towns. There was a time not too long ago when Americans thought Japan, Korea and Singapore would do nothing but grow rice and subsist on aid. That's already changed for lots of South America, and is rapidly changing in South and South East Asia.
Sure, for example, we don't have an Office killer *currently*, but where exactly does he explain why we can never have one? Nobody can seriously be so conned by Microsoft as to believe that we'll always be playing catch-up.
I think the author is saying that because most Linux On The Desktop efforts are copies of MS products, they will always be behind because as we copy one feature, MS makes another.
The more interesting statement to me is the Drucker quote to the effect that no one defeats a market leader at his own game. I have been reading The Innovator's Dilemma and Christensen provides compelling evidence of this. Instead, market leaders were defeated when the market changed under them. "Web appliances", embedded, and yes server may make more sense.
It doesn't support the original PowerBook G3 at allApple's new OS doesn't support hardware they were shipping only 18 months ago. Now that's service with a smile!
You are correct that OS X does not support the original PowerBook G3. You are incorrect in understanding which model this refers to. The original PowerBook G3 was a PowerBook 3400 fitted with a G3 chip, released sometime around 1996. I own the first PowerBook G3 Series to which you refer; I bought it in May 1998, and it runs OS X very well, thank you. It is my main dev platform.
So OX X supports hardware at least three and a half years old.
Actually, if you did CPR on pygmy rhinos, it would be useful for you learn CPR on South American pygmy rhinos. It would be especially useful for you to learn how South Americans did CPR on pygmy rhinos, because they might do something better that you could learn from.
Linus should try to learn instead of pretending others have nothing interesting to teach him.
Amazingly, it seems standards-based free wireless access is spreading in independent cafes, if this article is to be believed. Anyone in the bay area try this?
Amazing that Macintosh is now synonymous with standards-based.
Actually, competition is the best (and ultimately the only) way of making things better. See also "Natural selection" and "Free enterprise". Living under a rock only results in getting passed by.
Linus seems to recognise this by stating the diversity in distros is good. But then he doesn't care and doesn't learn about diversity in OSes.
He seems as unbiased as Gates. At least Bill doesn't have his head in the sand.
They'd love to hear from you.
The lameness filter is killing me. The lameness filter is killing me. Hopefully this is enough comment for it.
In other news, 72% of Americans believe handcuffing airline passengers before boarding would be "very" or "somewhat" helpful in reducing hijackings.
Agreed. The article holds mainstream news journalism up in high regard, but I would argue it is even worse than tech journalism. If you've spent any time at all abroad you'll understand.
/. especially recently. Until someone starts a better service, lets do what we can and moderate this one better.
All of our news coverage is horribly American-centric. A cat getting rescued from a tree in some suburb always beats out global conflicts, civil wars, or humanitarian disasters. When a foriegn story is aired, loaded terms such as "terrorist" or "gunman" are used without much reason or explanation. Reporters are always live at photo-op places at inopportune times when investigative reporting would be better done elsewhere. Sound-bites are the order of the day.
Yes, tech journalism could be better. But all journalism should be better. Journalism is biased sound-bites because that's what consumers want. We should constantly demand and reward higher standards. Yes, I have been disappointed with
The patent rights granted in Brasil are actually granted by the Brasilian Government. Since they grant the rights, it stands to reason they can also take these away. In fact, Brasilian law says these rights can be taken away in case of war or national emergency. The US has such eminent domain laws too. By saying that Brasil can not choose to override patents that they have granted you are saying that a soverign democracy can not choose the laws they make or change.
/.
As for research being affected, the company knew the law before it invested in research, and that didnt seem to stop them. In fact, if someone can't pay, the company doesn't get money whether the patient lives or dies. You can't squeeze blood from a stone. Instead, companies expect to make money from the people that can pay.
Patents are granted for the benefit of society. Democracies are allowed to choose the laws they believe benefit them the most. By saying corporations should be granted absolute unchangable rights you are taking away from democracy and supporting a corporation-dominated world. It's a frightening trend seen even here on
if you've got a small device that you want to conserve power on, and only communicate small distances, Bluetooth's ideal. If you've got a lot of power, a la a notebook computer, and want to communicate 150 ft., then 802.11 is what you want. Imagine that: Different uses! Different standards! Amazing!
Or 802.11 could add a low-power mode.
If you can view it on your screen, through a machine you own, you can make a digital duplicate of it! That's all there is to it, no matter how long the big companies try to struggle to come up with the next best way to cripple/encrypt the content that you have paid for.
People thought that about VCRs and DVDs too. But all they have to do is make it harder than $10 worth of effort, and people will pay.
When everyone is using the latest Sony gamestation-netappliance, it will be easy to build in protections to get the consumer to pay.
If it is really good I'll actually pay to go and watch it when it comes out. They are not good enough quality to replace the real thing and no substitute for the big screen.
/will/ be a substitute for the big screen, and the only question left will be are people paying for downloads or not?
Except that the extended version of Moore's Law says "Everything in computing gets mad better shortly".
So in a couple of years an internet download
The original artisans did not leave complete instructions for making their steel, and the few written formulas are less than helpful. Some advise quenching the red-hot blade in the urine of a red-haired boy or of a goat fed nothing but ferns. Another text suggests driving the sword into the belly of a muscular slave.
I've heard of job security code, but this is ridiculous!
Many of these fits can take days, and, since they often have to be repeated many times with slight changes to the fitted function or initial parameters, this is a serious concern.
From the Beowulf FAQ:
3. Can I take my software and run it on a Beowulf and have it go faster?
[1999-05-13]
Maybe, if you put some work into it. You need to split it into
parallel tasks that communicate using MPI or PVM or network sockets or
SysV IPC. Then you need to recompile it.
Or, as Greg Lindahl points out, if you just want to run the same
program a few thousand times with different input files, a shell script
will suffice.
And this is different from SGI or Intel maketing data how?
Actually, better G4 benchmarks are at Black Lab Linux.
The dual processor G4e manages a sustained 11.8 gigaflops. The peak is much higher. More info here.
The PowerPC G4 is a Very Nice Processor. It's too bad enough people don't recognise that. Maybe now with OS X and G4 processor boards for other architectures, development will start.