We in the West need to wake up, start thinking more innovatively, and compete with our best tools: our creativity, education, and tremendous freedom to explore new business opportunities.
Well, at least with our creativity and tremendous freedom to explore new business opportunities...
It's not the wealth of the business that makes them effective, it's their contacts with the local city government. If they convince the city government that some piece of development is in the city's best interests, they're in. It doesn't take money to do this, it just takes connections.
Both money and connections are involved. How do you think such businesses get the majority of their political connections if not through campaign donations?
Nothing major is going to be different between this and the RSX, just small tweaks... otherwise the transistor count wouldn't be similar nor the featureset.
If by 'small tweaks' you're referring to the output on your screen, then you're probably right in that both will be so good that they'll be largely indistinguishable. However, if you're referring to the architecture, as it sounds like you are, then I guess you haven't yet heard of the R500's unified shader core, which is more than a small tweak different from RSX's separate shader pipes. Will be interesting to see if it gives the performance edge ATI claims it will...
All you would have to do is bump into your Mom or Dad to delay them for 1 second; that slight change in the timeline would guarantee that it would be a different sperm that won the race to impregnate your mom.
Unless you live in the Terminator world in which every event is predestined and the timing of things is irrelevant.
This is, strictly speaking, terrorism: harming innnocent people as a way to pressure some central authority into doing what you want.
Though calling everything "terrorism" is all the rage these days, it's not actually terrorism, rather it is extortion, blackmail, or something else along those lines. MAPS actions as described by Paul may have been completely reprehensible, but it's a far cry from striking fear into the populace's hearts by murdering some random selection(s) of them. Man, if techies can't limit the rhetoric, who can?
iTunes optionally uses 1-click shopping. So when's the court date, and can I get a seat? Amazon suing Apple for something so trivial should be amusing.
Like any new industry or social phenomena there is always an initial glut, followed by a shakeout and consolidation, followed by a period where the major players are the best and most dedicated ones. It's a recurring phenomena that has happened in autos, aviation, radio, TV, tech, Internet, and perhaps now blogs, if you believe the article. Nothing new here folks, move along...
But, there is always the potential that OS X adoption could slow Linux adoption in the desktop arena.
No it won't. If anything slows Linux's desktop adoption, it's Linux, not OS X. In general, people who buy Macs are not the same ones who install Linux, Jamie Zawinski and/. OS hackers not withstanding. OS X has the easiest most user-friendly interface and driver support and it "just works". Linux is like the Millenium Falcon and requires owners to actually enjoy hacking it. There is not much overlap between markets for these two products, on the desktop.
Personally, I think it would be a mistake that they not include an HDD with the console, but considering the rumoured cost of the PS3, it is probably doubtful that it will include one at launch.
Agreed, all they need is a cheap 7200rpm 5GB hdd (preferably SATA, if price is right) for Linux and little things like persistent world data and game saves, and devise a way to make it swappable with larger versions on sale at retail. Buy an 80GB version from Gamestop, plug it in via USB, run a Linux utility to image the old onto the new, physically swap the new one in, and voila. They'd have to make that process easy enough for the average cretin, but the effort is worth having a standardized hdd as part of the system, imho.
Probably won't take long for some hardware site to find a way to benchmark a PS3 vs. an x86 PC/workstation/server running Linux, despite the extremely different architecture. Should be cool to finally see how much PS3 owns in Media procesing and gets owned in any apps that require out-of-order processing.
The keyboard requires the user to spend more time up front learning commands and shortcuts, but once those are learned the keyboard is faster. Mouse moves all that to the GUI making it easier to learn for the average user, with the tradeoff that commands take longer to execute. While power users may lament this, it has made computing much more accessible to the masses, and is probably therefore a worthy tradeoff, in the great scheme of things.
I don't get how a 4 year old technology becomes new by simply giving it a stupid name.
It's obviously the combination of Google's cool and popular (among geeks) implementation of these technologies, plus the immediate coining of an easy-to-remember acronym for them. Lots of sudden attention, and an easy way to refer to the object of that attention.
"Computer"? "Documents"? "Music"? How dull. How about some more interesting labels, like "Milliard Gargantubrain" for Computer, "Googleplex Starthinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity" for Network, and "Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler of Ciceronicus XII, the Magic and Indefatigable" for Documents. "Multicorticoid Perspicutron Titan Muller", "Pondermatic", and "Deep Thought" are good ones too. Come on Microsoft, stop being so corporate and live a little...
IANAScientist but I think that money could be better spent by funding pure science research programs, like particle physics (supercollider), materials science & nano-tech, nuclear fusion and other energy research, etc. Our real problem with space is that it's just too darn big, and anything beyond near earth orbit is too far away to make it economically feasible for our current means of transport. We need to shrink the universe a bit first by developing more powerful and efficient propulsion, and more advanced manufacturing techniques and materials. If we want sustainable expansion into space and development of it, straining to send a primitive bucket of bolts and a couple of astronauts to Mars isn't going to do as much for us as more funding of advanced research will.
What are SSN's doing in unencrypted flat files anyway? At least encrypt them, better yet store them in an encrypted database field. No human should be able to see someone else's SSN (or CC#, or CC verification code, etc.) on a system, not even the admins. All that should be visible is the variable, not its value.
And as for accountability, Sarbanes-Oxley ensures that any public company is financially accountable. My company is going through compliance right now, and documenting every single process, decision, deal, etc. that touches revenue in any way is a biatch. If you want accountability of strategy and business decisions, why don't you at least wait till Brin and Page make some big misjudgements before protesting as you are. Let's not kill the goose that's laying the golden egg, until or unless it's terminally ill at least.
Specifically calculated by Google to cut the lost productivity costs of Google staff leaving the campus everyday for lunch. He said this in his graduation speech at University of Michigan.
3) Investor control. What investor control? The founders still control the majority voting block, and have ensured they will remain in control. One might as well just donate money to Google, because there's no accountability.
Who would you rather have calling the shots at Google, Brin and Page who have so far done a bang-up job, or a bunch of second-guessing, know-nothing, back-seat-driving, kick-back-giving, short-term-only-thinking, racketeering, conniving Wall St. llamas? Having lived in NYC and worked on Wall St., I vote the former anyday. There's no honest endeavor that Wall St. can do that good engineers can't do better and with more integrity.
When Google starts missing Wall St. numbers, expect perqs to vanish and layoffs to ensue. Also expect outsourcing to increase. Google will then be like every other public company.
Doubt it. Google already weathered the.com bust and recession of the early 2000s. They only hire the most highly educated people they can find, and only have about 1500 employees. Google isn't a company of application developers, it's a company of computer scientists. Further, one reason Larry & Sergei retained control of the company is so that they can prevent making short-term Wall St. numbers from ever becoming a priority at Google. They're in it for the long-term, which is good for long-term investors, the kind most companies would give their left nut to attract.
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We in the West need to wake up, start thinking more innovatively, and compete with our best tools: our creativity, education, and tremendous freedom to explore new business opportunities.
Well, at least with our creativity and tremendous freedom to explore new business opportunities...
Humpty-dumpty sat on a wall and had a great fall. Could this open some eyes and increase interest in alternative (Linux, Mac) offerings?
It's not the wealth of the business that makes them effective, it's their contacts with the local city government. If they convince the city government that some piece of development is in the city's best interests, they're in. It doesn't take money to do this, it just takes connections.
Both money and connections are involved. How do you think such businesses get the majority of their political connections if not through campaign donations?
Nothing major is going to be different between this and the RSX, just small tweaks... otherwise the transistor count wouldn't be similar nor the featureset.
If by 'small tweaks' you're referring to the output on your screen, then you're probably right in that both will be so good that they'll be largely indistinguishable. However, if you're referring to the architecture, as it sounds like you are, then I guess you haven't yet heard of the R500's unified shader core, which is more than a small tweak different from RSX's separate shader pipes. Will be interesting to see if it gives the performance edge ATI claims it will...
- play a wicked ass game of pong
correction:
- lose a wicked ass game of pong
All you would have to do is bump into your Mom or Dad to delay them for 1 second; that slight change in the timeline would guarantee that it would be a different sperm that won the race to impregnate your mom.
Unless you live in the Terminator world in which every event is predestined and the timing of things is irrelevant.
This is, strictly speaking, terrorism: harming innnocent people as a way to pressure some central authority into doing what you want.
Though calling everything "terrorism" is all the rage these days, it's not actually terrorism, rather it is extortion, blackmail, or something else along those lines. MAPS actions as described by Paul may have been completely reprehensible, but it's a far cry from striking fear into the populace's hearts by murdering some random selection(s) of them. Man, if techies can't limit the rhetoric, who can?
iTunes optionally uses 1-click shopping. So when's the court date, and can I get a seat? Amazon suing Apple for something so trivial should be amusing.
Like any new industry or social phenomena there is always an initial glut, followed by a shakeout and consolidation, followed by a period where the major players are the best and most dedicated ones. It's a recurring phenomena that has happened in autos, aviation, radio, TV, tech, Internet, and perhaps now blogs, if you believe the article. Nothing new here folks, move along...
But, there is always the potential that OS X adoption could slow Linux adoption in the desktop arena.
/. OS hackers not withstanding. OS X has the easiest most user-friendly interface and driver support and it "just works". Linux is like the Millenium Falcon and requires owners to actually enjoy hacking it. There is not much overlap between markets for these two products, on the desktop.
No it won't. If anything slows Linux's desktop adoption, it's Linux, not OS X. In general, people who buy Macs are not the same ones who install Linux, Jamie Zawinski and
A much more useful and informative caption for the button would be, "Don't Panic".
Most programs don't hyperthread b/c until recently there were no x86 chips that could support it. Now there are, now programs will.
Personally, I think it would be a mistake that they not include an HDD with the console, but considering the rumoured cost of the PS3, it is probably doubtful that it will include one at launch.
Agreed, all they need is a cheap 7200rpm 5GB hdd (preferably SATA, if price is right) for Linux and little things like persistent world data and game saves, and devise a way to make it swappable with larger versions on sale at retail. Buy an 80GB version from Gamestop, plug it in via USB, run a Linux utility to image the old onto the new, physically swap the new one in, and voila. They'd have to make that process easy enough for the average cretin, but the effort is worth having a standardized hdd as part of the system, imho.
Probably won't take long for some hardware site to find a way to benchmark a PS3 vs. an x86 PC/workstation/server running Linux, despite the extremely different architecture. Should be cool to finally see how much PS3 owns in Media procesing and gets owned in any apps that require out-of-order processing.
How is this funny?
;)
/. Lore = Funny.
You must be new here...
FYI: Austin Powers +
... being a rich and/or successful and/or famous nerd is now in.
The keyboard requires the user to spend more time up front learning commands and shortcuts, but once those are learned the keyboard is faster. Mouse moves all that to the GUI making it easier to learn for the average user, with the tradeoff that commands take longer to execute. While power users may lament this, it has made computing much more accessible to the masses, and is probably therefore a worthy tradeoff, in the great scheme of things.
They've just discovered the holy grail of inkjet industry revenue.
/. masquerading as an engineering piece.
/., meet Paul Graham. Paul Graham, /.
Yep - astroturfing on
How does the playstation 3 manage 2.2 teraflops without being the size of a house then?
Marketing.
That would be "Marchitecture".
- Ken Kutaragi.
I don't get how a 4 year old technology becomes new by simply giving it a stupid name.
It's obviously the combination of Google's cool and popular (among geeks) implementation of these technologies, plus the immediate coining of an easy-to-remember acronym for them. Lots of sudden attention, and an easy way to refer to the object of that attention.
"Computer"? "Documents"? "Music"? How dull. How about some more interesting labels, like "Milliard Gargantubrain" for Computer, "Googleplex Starthinker in the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity" for Network, and "Great Hyperlobic Omni-Cognate Neutron Wrangler of Ciceronicus XII, the Magic and Indefatigable" for Documents. "Multicorticoid Perspicutron Titan Muller", "Pondermatic", and "Deep Thought" are good ones too. Come on Microsoft, stop being so corporate and live a little...
IANAScientist but I think that money could be better spent by funding pure science research programs, like particle physics (supercollider), materials science & nano-tech, nuclear fusion and other energy research, etc. Our real problem with space is that it's just too darn big, and anything beyond near earth orbit is too far away to make it economically feasible for our current means of transport. We need to shrink the universe a bit first by developing more powerful and efficient propulsion, and more advanced manufacturing techniques and materials. If we want sustainable expansion into space and development of it, straining to send a primitive bucket of bolts and a couple of astronauts to Mars isn't going to do as much for us as more funding of advanced research will.
What are SSN's doing in unencrypted flat files anyway? At least encrypt them, better yet store them in an encrypted database field. No human should be able to see someone else's SSN (or CC#, or CC verification code, etc.) on a system, not even the admins. All that should be visible is the variable, not its value.
And as for accountability, Sarbanes-Oxley ensures that any public company is financially accountable. My company is going through compliance right now, and documenting every single process, decision, deal, etc. that touches revenue in any way is a biatch. If you want accountability of strategy and business decisions, why don't you at least wait till Brin and Page make some big misjudgements before protesting as you are. Let's not kill the goose that's laying the golden egg, until or unless it's terminally ill at least.
There's also the free (large) cafeteria.
.com bust and recession of the early 2000s. They only hire the most highly educated people they can find, and only have about 1500 employees. Google isn't a company of application developers, it's a company of computer scientists. Further, one reason Larry & Sergei retained control of the company is so that they can prevent making short-term Wall St. numbers from ever becoming a priority at Google. They're in it for the long-term, which is good for long-term investors, the kind most companies would give their left nut to attract.
Specifically calculated by Google to cut the lost productivity costs of Google staff leaving the campus everyday for lunch. He said this in his graduation speech at University of Michigan.
3) Investor control. What investor control? The founders still control the majority voting block, and have ensured they will remain in control. One might as well just donate money to Google, because there's no accountability.
Who would you rather have calling the shots at Google, Brin and Page who have so far done a bang-up job, or a bunch of second-guessing, know-nothing, back-seat-driving, kick-back-giving, short-term-only-thinking, racketeering, conniving Wall St. llamas? Having lived in NYC and worked on Wall St., I vote the former anyday. There's no honest endeavor that Wall St. can do that good engineers can't do better and with more integrity.
When Google starts missing Wall St. numbers, expect perqs to vanish and layoffs to ensue. Also expect outsourcing to increase. Google will then be like every other public company.
Doubt it. Google already weathered the