X-box has extremely short development times (and low costs for the power you get, due to using basically commodity hardware). If Sony waits this long, MS has the capability to release two new boxes in that time (they won't... but they could, theoretically.) The problem is, three years is foreeeever in the world of technological devlopment. Can you imagine if something had been announced in March of 2000? Would you still care about it now?
I guess what I'm saying is, Cell had better be absolutely revolutionary-stunning-fantastic to actually make people care after that long.
Best line: And who else but sweet Rosemarie, the golden-haired darling of our gang, should play the part of the slovenly mother-whore who's constantly giving birth to fist-sized maggots?
I like how in that linked document, they talk how the FSF (represented by Eben Moglen, a law professor) participated, but then later in the article say
They could distribute under GPL, but they would be granting a self-contradicting license. Nothing (to my knowledge, but IANAL)
So who wrote the article? And for something this important, wouldn't it be worth it to get someone, who, um, IAL (is a lawyer) ??
Yes, I realize it's different people posting. Yes, I realize there is no group consensus on Slashdot. But it's so frustrating when every single freaking article that involves something with backwards compatibility has 40 people saying "Companies should just drop the cruft. I mean, these processors have legacy code hanging off them like sludge or something. Go for performance, not backwards compatibility"
And then another 40 people say 'The Itanic (ooh... I bet that name comes from the same school of thought as calling Microsoft 'M$') dropped backwards compatibility, therefore it sucks. Go AMD for doing x86-64.
From everything I've heard, the IA-64 architecture is a bitch to code for, but is really, really fast, and good. Expensive, though. So maybe it's good for a different application than x86-64? Basically, is backwards compatibility good, or not? Performance, or legacy support? Okay, rant over.
The tank treads are apparently modeled after his watch band... as seen here... my question: couldn't he find a better picture than him picking up some like crap or something? Green sand, my ass... (Okay, bad expression).
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On a related note, there used to be a game called Acrophobia. Well, the game still exists, but the online service is gone. Does anyone else remember that game? That thing rocked... Yahoo! word games are okay, but they don't compare to the fun that game was...
Sorry guys, but this is what you get. That's how capitalism works. When it's cheaper to have guys in a cheaper area doing the work (i.e. PROGRAMMERS IN INDIA), then the jobs will move there.
IMO, it's somewhat hypocritical to defend the U.S. as the great bastion of free-market capitalism, and then get extremely protectionistic when the jobs move somewhere cheaper.
That's the problem with a global economy --- it's global. If the standard of living in the U.S. can't be sustained because people elsewhere are willing to work for cheaper, then the standard of living will have to adjust. Of course, you know as well as I do that there's no way any politician will ever let the standard of living ever decrease, so we have protectionistic measures like repeatedly trying to save the steel industry, when market logic dictates that it should be mostly moving to Korea.
To end this comment on a bright note (hey, it's Friday, let's be optimistic about the future.), this could all be obviated by the march of technology. I'm betting on life being good once nanotechnology comes of age. Yeah, it's a while off, but then, today seemed a while off to the people of 1903.
It's not just a move to 64 bit. See Ars Technica's article (posted here, yesterday, I believe) for an explanation of some of the other advantages of x86-64... they've taken the opportunity to add some new features and remove some of the old ones that weren't being used anymore.
Home conversion mopeds rock. I was bored. I was in grade 13 at the time (Ontario, up until this year, had 5 years of high school...). I put a 2-horsepower, 4-stroke motor on my bike. Used a Comet centrifugal clutch. It was quite an experience. First time, the chain seized, BENT the frame I built (looked like one of those newspaper carriers, but stronger), and broke the chain. I completely rebuilt it.
The hardest part was attaching a #35 go-kart sprocket to the rear cassette of the bike. I had to cut little splines into the sprocket to make it attach properly. Anyway, it worked out great. Top speed of 52 km / h (I could get it faster, but then it's too hard to get going from a stop... only one gear, remember...) And oh man, does it ever attract attention around Burlington. I have been offered two jobs (At machine shops) simply based on the home-built moped. Overall, a great project. I'm now building an offroad go-kart and an on-road trike.
Yeah man... that's their MASSIVE software. (That's the name, I'm not calling the software REALLY HUGE.) It's really cool stuff... they talk about it in the article referenced as part of this story, in fact:).
What I find interesting is that they want to convert all those procs over to 64-bit... times must be good to afford that! (Of course they are, what am I talking about...) Still, I like the fact that they're all running linux (well 220 of 300 commodity-grade workstations are anyway... or something like that...), that's pretty cool. To weta: you guys rock. Just do a better job on the blue-screening of the ents next time:):)
I just love it when the sig collides with the message. 40% OF EMAIL IS SPAM! and then: It was me. I did it, and I'll do it again. Should we read something into that?
My favourite so far though, a message endorsing the masturbate for Peace campaign with the sig 'I like monkeys' right after. Yikes.
You know what else is cool? The 'BR' and 'P' tags. Let's try that again, formatted properly...
This is what scientists should do. They should figure out interfaces to each part of the brain. By the time all of this is figured out, nanotechnology, biotechnology and quantum computing will have come a long way and become nearly perfected. Utilizing these technologies, implants would be placed in the brain which connect it to the Internet through all the wireless technologies present, satellites, etc.
They'll put satellites out in space, orbiting all over the planet, so that no matter where you are, you'll get high speed internet access directly from your brain. Your conciousness will spread all over the internet, as will everyone else's. Ten years after this process begins, every human being on the planet will have these implants in their brains. Then, scientists will figure out a way to cause a little bit of evolution so that people will eventually be born with the implants already present. When that is complete, we'll be the Borg.
The only thing they'll have to do after that is put big rocket engines sticking out of two opposite sides of the Earth so that Spaceship Earth really will be a spaceship and we can all fly around the universe without ever leaving our planet. That's also a lot safer than taking spaceships which might have hull breaches or get lost in space or whatever. This way, if we do get lost, who cares? We're still at home anyway, kind of like a turtle.
Oh yeah, and since our sun will stay behind, they'll install big huge lights in the lots of satellites that I talked about a moment ago, and these will provide the light that we need. They'll be bright enough that we won't notice.
Did I mention that we'll also control the weather, the tides, the animals and everything else? Yeah. I think all of this will happen in ten years time. (Or only five or six, if Microsoft goes out of business so that we can stop worrying about all the problems they're causing and concentrate on ADVANCING technology instead of stopping it for the purpose of making a quick buck, or 100 billion, whichever is larger.)
General Hydrogen is the company owned by Ballard Power fuel-cell dude Geoff Ballard. They have an Industry News page that allows you to see all the latest developments.
Most interesting for me, as a Canadian (and also, with the current anti-Americanism rampant in Canada) is the fact that Michigan is currently trying to woo all the H2-cell companies out of British Columbia. I know the chair of the Canadian national committee on energy efficiency, and she has informed me that Michigan is currently offering huge tax incentives for the companies around Vancouver (currently the world leaders in fuel cell tech) to all leave and head for the U.S. I of course hope they stay in Canada - this is the field I want to work in eventually, and would rather stay in the Great White North.
Yeah, but as you slice them thinner, information theory tells you you can fit less info. into each channel. So really, think of the whole spectrum as one channel(it's easier to think of this way). You can only have finite information in it.
Well, you can't blame New Line for the LOTR special edition --- from the very beginning, they had said that there was going to be a special FOTR edition in November. I knew about it long before the 'stndard theatrical edition' DVD came out, and subsequently did not buy the theatrical edition. I bought the longer one.
Mystro TV? Excuse me? I assume that's supposed to be pronounced like 'Maestro' but when I see that I think of a superhero or something... I guess what TiVo needs is a supervillain to defeat it...:)
TachyonWare... you know, those theoretical particles that travel back in time. Theoretical, because there is no way that the PS3 is actually comign out in 2003:).
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I guess what I'm saying is, Cell had better be absolutely revolutionary-stunning-fantastic to actually make people care after that long.
Best line: And who else but sweet Rosemarie, the golden-haired darling of our gang, should play the part of the slovenly mother-whore who's constantly giving birth to fist-sized maggots?
Oh, that Jose Padilla :)
Yes, I realize it's different people posting. Yes, I realize there is no group consensus on Slashdot. But it's so frustrating when every single freaking article that involves something with backwards compatibility has 40 people saying "Companies should just drop the cruft. I mean, these processors have legacy code hanging off them like sludge or something. Go for performance, not backwards compatibility"
And then another 40 people say 'The Itanic (ooh... I bet that name comes from the same school of thought as calling Microsoft 'M$') dropped backwards compatibility, therefore it sucks. Go AMD for doing x86-64.
From everything I've heard, the IA-64 architecture is a bitch to code for, but is really, really fast, and good. Expensive, though. So maybe it's good for a different application than x86-64? Basically, is backwards compatibility good, or not? Performance, or legacy support? Okay, rant over.
The tank treads are apparently modeled after his watch band... as seen here... my question: couldn't he find a better picture than him picking up some like crap or something? Green sand, my ass... (Okay, bad expression).
On a related note, there used to be a game called Acrophobia. Well, the game still exists, but the online service is gone. Does anyone else remember that game? That thing rocked... Yahoo! word games are okay, but they don't compare to the fun that game was...
IMO, it's somewhat hypocritical to defend the U.S. as the great bastion of free-market capitalism, and then get extremely protectionistic when the jobs move somewhere cheaper.
That's the problem with a global economy --- it's global. If the standard of living in the U.S. can't be sustained because people elsewhere are willing to work for cheaper, then the standard of living will have to adjust. Of course, you know as well as I do that there's no way any politician will ever let the standard of living ever decrease, so we have protectionistic measures like repeatedly trying to save the steel industry, when market logic dictates that it should be mostly moving to Korea.
To end this comment on a bright note (hey, it's Friday, let's be optimistic about the future.), this could all be obviated by the march of technology. I'm betting on life being good once nanotechnology comes of age. Yeah, it's a while off, but then, today seemed a while off to the people of 1903.
It's not just a move to 64 bit. See Ars Technica's article (posted here, yesterday, I believe) for an explanation of some of the other advantages of x86-64... they've taken the opportunity to add some new features and remove some of the old ones that weren't being used anymore.
The hardest part was attaching a #35 go-kart sprocket to the rear cassette of the bike. I had to cut little splines into the sprocket to make it attach properly. Anyway, it worked out great. Top speed of 52 km / h (I could get it faster, but then it's too hard to get going from a stop... only one gear, remember...) And oh man, does it ever attract attention around Burlington. I have been offered two jobs (At machine shops) simply based on the home-built moped. Overall, a great project. I'm now building an offroad go-kart and an on-road trike.
Yeah man... that's their MASSIVE software. (That's the name, I'm not calling the software REALLY HUGE.) It's really cool stuff... they talk about it in the article referenced as part of this story, in fact :).
What I find interesting is that they want to convert all those procs over to 64-bit... times must be good to afford that! (Of course they are, what am I talking about...) Still, I like the fact that they're all running linux (well 220 of 300 commodity-grade workstations are anyway... or something like that...), that's pretty cool. To weta: you guys rock. Just do a better job on the blue-screening of the ents next time :) :)
My favourite so far though, a message endorsing the masturbate for Peace campaign with the sig 'I like monkeys' right after. Yikes.
You are eaten by a grue.
This is what scientists should do. They should figure out interfaces to each part of the brain. By the time all of this is figured out, nanotechnology, biotechnology and quantum computing will have come a long way and become nearly perfected. Utilizing these technologies, implants would be placed in the brain which connect it to the Internet through all the wireless technologies present, satellites, etc.
They'll put satellites out in space, orbiting all over the planet, so that no matter where you are, you'll get high speed internet access directly from your brain. Your conciousness will spread all over the internet, as will everyone else's. Ten years after this process begins, every human being on the planet will have these implants in their brains. Then, scientists will figure out a way to cause a little bit of evolution so that people will eventually be born with the implants already present. When that is complete, we'll be the Borg.
The only thing they'll have to do after that is put big rocket engines sticking out of two opposite sides of the Earth so that Spaceship Earth really will be a spaceship and we can all fly around the universe without ever leaving our planet. That's also a lot safer than taking spaceships which might have hull breaches or get lost in space or whatever. This way, if we do get lost, who cares? We're still at home anyway, kind of like a turtle.
Oh yeah, and since our sun will stay behind, they'll install big huge lights in the lots of satellites that I talked about a moment ago, and these will provide the light that we need. They'll be bright enough that we won't notice.
Did I mention that we'll also control the weather, the tides, the animals and everything else? Yeah. I think all of this will happen in ten years time. (Or only five or six, if Microsoft goes out of business so that we can stop worrying about all the problems they're causing and concentrate on ADVANCING technology instead of stopping it for the purpose of making a quick buck, or 100 billion, whichever is larger.)
This post is serious. Don't laugh.
Most interesting for me, as a Canadian (and also, with the current anti-Americanism rampant in Canada) is the fact that Michigan is currently trying to woo all the H2-cell companies out of British Columbia. I know the chair of the Canadian national committee on energy efficiency, and she has informed me that Michigan is currently offering huge tax incentives for the companies around Vancouver (currently the world leaders in fuel cell tech) to all leave and head for the U.S. I of course hope they stay in Canada - this is the field I want to work in eventually, and would rather stay in the Great White North.
Yeah, but as you slice them thinner, information theory tells you you can fit less info. into each channel. So really, think of the whole spectrum as one channel(it's easier to think of this way). You can only have finite information in it.
I love it when people get quoted not using their 'mass media language' :).
Now George Lucas on the other hand...:p
Mystro TV? Excuse me? I assume that's supposed to be pronounced like 'Maestro' but when I see that I think of a superhero or something... I guess what TiVo needs is a supervillain to defeat it... :)
TachyonWare... you know, those theoretical particles that travel back in time. Theoretical, because there is no way that the PS3 is actually comign out in 2003 :).
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