We've been calling and giving Congress an earful. The pro-net-neutrality side is the most bizarre coalition ever to form in my lifetime, including groups from the Christian Coalition to the Gun Owners of America and the NRA to MoveOn.org at the other end of the spectrum, Google and Microsoft (chair-throwing truce). It doesn't get more across the board than that. The problem is that the Republicans are bought, lock stock and barrel, by the telecoms industry. Also, they talk about free markets, but most of them are just political hacks good at raising money *cough*delay*cough* with no real education or understanding of the issue. They believe that government intervention is the only thing that can quash a free market, without considering that monopolies and natural monopolies can as well. They're all fools, and I dearly hope we've given them enough rope to hang themselves.
No, there's also IBM. Also, the telecom market is different than the software market - a more capital intensive natural monopoly with higher barriers to entry.
FLPR. There are also some interesting Python frameworks that have recently adopted the Rails team's marketing savy:
Turbogears. Turbogears may become the choice for webapps with more complicated database requirements, eg apps that require a relational algebra engine rather than a simple object store, given their ongoing work to integrate the SQLAlchemy DB layer.
Given the Rails-led boom in opensource RAD web frameworks, there are plenty of combinations still left for anyone wanting to make a framework out of their favorite components - Linux/BSD/etc | Apache/LightTPD/etc | PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite/HSQL/etc | Ruby/Python/Lisp/etc.
I was living in Manhattan when Bloomberg decided to run for Mayor of NYC, and the reason is simply so he could bypass a crowded a Democratic primary field, and ride the coattails of the GOP (who were riding Guiliani's) to a successful election. Which he did, with no competition at all in the primaries, and a Democratic challenger damaged from a harsh Democratic primary competition in the general election. Also, Republicans in NYC are generally more centrist than Republicans elsewhere in the country, as both Guiliani and Bloomberg exemplify.
As for Sullivan, he's a true believer of most core Reaganesque, Libertarian, and fiscal Conservative principles, hence his association with the GOP. Although now that the balance of power in the GOP has shifted to the theocratic, statist, corporatist wing, that may change...
I second all the Subversion recommendations, and add to that the web-based Trac frontend. Trac incorporates a web-based interface to your SVN repository, along with authentication & access levels, wiki, and several project-management features (timeline tracking, milestone tracking, ticket system, etc.) Nice interface to SVN, though you should still install Tortoise on everyone's desktop for additional client functionality. Here's an interesting writeup on one sysadmin's use of SVN, Trac, and RapidSVN client.
...the logic is done with ECMAScript (yes, that's what JavaScript became).
Of course we're all aware of that, but nobody actually calls it ECMAScript. If the ECMA wants to change JavaScript's name, they'll have to get over their tendancy toward stupid self-aggrandizement and come up with something with a better ring to it.
Business Software Alliance says 35% of packaged software installed on PCs globally is pirated,
Solution: Web-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS & SOA). Negate the need for packaged software (and MS, and the BSA). BSA is jousting at windmills as their Rome burns, to mix metaphors...
It's a good start, a good platform upon which to expand. I would bet IBM would be willing to make Cell+, given their traditional involvement in scientific computing. But you left a key part out of your quote, that even in its current form, Cell appears to be 8x faster and more power efficient than current Opterons and Itaniums in double-precision calculations. Doubling that by making a few modifications to the silicon is probably not out of the question, though whether this would allow Cell+ the price reductions of Cell's economy of scale is another question.
"Overall results demonstrate the tremendous potential of the Cell architecture for scientific computations in terms of both raw performance and power efficiency," the authors wrote. While their current analysis uses hand-optimized code on a set of small scientific kernels, the results are striking. On average, Cell is eight times faster and at least eight times more power efficient than current Opteron and Itanium processors, despite the fact that Cell's peak double precision performance is fourteen times slower than its peak single precision performance. If Cell were to include at least one fully utilizable pipelined double precision floating point unit, as proposed in their Cell+ implementation, these speedups would easily double."
If everyone technology adhered to the same standard, be it ODF, ECMAscript (javascript), tcp/ip, etc., would that constitute an equally vulnerable, just not proprietary, monoculture too?
Embedded: If you want something faster and easy to write (but not as scalable)
How is it easier to write if its embedded? When I think of embedded, I think of all the html and page content embedded in a servlet, aggregated in a var using String.Append or something similar, and then written to the output stream. It's a lot more difficult to maintain the HTML code in that form than it is if you keep the non-dynamic HTML in file.html and only embed the dynamic stuff in your server-side code. Although it does give you more options for dynamically changing any part of your html, which can be nice...
I think a bigger question has been raised - is the Internet really that fragile?
No, the Internet is robust and redundant. What is fragile are the tens of thousands of pwn3d Windows PC's that are being used without their owners' knowledge to perpetrate these massive DDOS attacks. If I were a lawyer for Blue Security, Yahoo, or anyone else who has been hit recently, I would be seriously looking in to the merits of a lawsuit against MS for gross negligence or something similar.
This time, you can be sure that they would stay precisely inside the letter of the law.
Just GPL the source code, and then MS couldn't use it without sharing the Windows source. That'll fix em. Since Sun has already open-sourced Solaris, what do they have to lose?
Leave it to Apple to set the trends again. I bet all the other companies are gonna copy them and come out with black laptops now... ; )
heh, you jest, but the nice thing about the Mac is that it's all black. If I had a nickle for every part black, part silver-coated plastic, unaesthetic POS laptop on the market, well I'd have a lot of nickles. Why is clean design so darn hard for every company but Apple?
"Or is a blood sample like a fingerprint, something that everyone should provide to their government?"
The difference is, it will be a lot easier in a few years to clone him from a blood sample than from a fingerprint, better enabling the government to create a secret, genetically-programmed clone army of brilliant, amoral hackers with which to better spy on the citizenry.
I don't know whether I'm being funny or serious. Mod me as you see fit.
Jason's design exhibits some interesting behavior in Opera 9b. The roundrects that contain each article and its abstract continually, automatically, concentrically increment themselves. Check out a few screengrabs:
"Knowing Intel, who would have ever thought that the successor to the Core Duo would be the Core 2 Duo!?"
Well I was saving my jokes about redundancy for the Pentium 5, and was disappointed I wouldn't get to use them when they discarded the brand. But lo and behold, Intel gives me Core 2 Duo!
So why not just Core 4 instead? Since we're not in the Gigahertz race anymore, how about the naming scheme numbering race? Those lamers at AMD are sooo not with the program that their chips don't even have numbers! Intel has a great chance to leap ahead and get a head start in chip name numbering race, just combine the 2 and Duo (add or multiply, whatevers) and get 4, eg 4 times the awesomeness of stupid Athlon and Opteron.
Or perhaps Intel's marketers are trying to imitate GNU, but just haven't figured out recursion yet. Here's a hint guys, it's not in the arithmetic texts...
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If you don't, you'll see that he can actually be pretty entertaining.
Or you'll realize that time and life are precious, and reading Dvorak is a complete waste of both.
We've been calling and giving Congress an earful. The pro-net-neutrality side is the most bizarre coalition ever to form in my lifetime, including groups from the Christian Coalition to the Gun Owners of America and the NRA to MoveOn.org at the other end of the spectrum, Google and Microsoft (chair-throwing truce). It doesn't get more across the board than that. The problem is that the Republicans are bought, lock stock and barrel, by the telecoms industry. Also, they talk about free markets, but most of them are just political hacks good at raising money *cough*delay*cough* with no real education or understanding of the issue. They believe that government intervention is the only thing that can quash a free market, without considering that monopolies and natural monopolies can as well. They're all fools, and I dearly hope we've given them enough rope to hang themselves.
The states and counties will give out these incentives because the data centres will bring so called "high tech jobs."
But how do you get skilled high-tech people to work in a place where they risk their lives on their daily commute?
There's also Notepad++ and TextPad, both similar to Notepad2.
No, there's also IBM. Also, the telecom market is different than the software market - a more capital intensive natural monopoly with higher barriers to entry.
What about BSD, you insensitive clods?!?!
- Turbogears. Turbogears may become the choice for webapps with more complicated database requirements, eg apps that require a relational algebra engine rather than a simple object store, given their ongoing work to integrate the SQLAlchemy DB layer.
- Django also looks good
- web.py for a lightweight framework.
Given the Rails-led boom in opensource RAD web frameworks, there are plenty of combinations still left for anyone wanting to make a framework out of their favorite components - Linux/BSD/etc | Apache/LightTPD/etc | PostgreSQL/MySQL/SQLite/HSQL/etc | Ruby/Python/Lisp/etc.Ugh, another rehashed debate over communism. Let me just try and nip it in the bud so we can get on to discussing the actual article...
Nazi's!
There, that should do it. Move along now, nothing left to see here. Next thread please!
I was living in Manhattan when Bloomberg decided to run for Mayor of NYC, and the reason is simply so he could bypass a crowded a Democratic primary field, and ride the coattails of the GOP (who were riding Guiliani's) to a successful election. Which he did, with no competition at all in the primaries, and a Democratic challenger damaged from a harsh Democratic primary competition in the general election. Also, Republicans in NYC are generally more centrist than Republicans elsewhere in the country, as both Guiliani and Bloomberg exemplify.
As for Sullivan, he's a true believer of most core Reaganesque, Libertarian, and fiscal Conservative principles, hence his association with the GOP. Although now that the balance of power in the GOP has shifted to the theocratic, statist, corporatist wing, that may change...
I second all the Subversion recommendations, and add to that the web-based Trac frontend. Trac incorporates a web-based interface to your SVN repository, along with authentication & access levels, wiki, and several project-management features (timeline tracking, milestone tracking, ticket system, etc.) Nice interface to SVN, though you should still install Tortoise on everyone's desktop for additional client functionality. Here's an interesting writeup on one sysadmin's use of SVN, Trac, and RapidSVN client.
Just how fast would a virtualized Linux instance running inside of a virtualized Linux instance running on hardware be?
Hey, a new cs field is born - optimization by infinite recursion of paravirtualized Linux instances.
...the logic is done with ECMAScript (yes, that's what JavaScript became).
Of course we're all aware of that, but nobody actually calls it ECMAScript. If the ECMA wants to change JavaScript's name, they'll have to get over their tendancy toward stupid self-aggrandizement and come up with something with a better ring to it.
That really is truly amazing.
...to steal it.
That is so amazingly amazing, I think... I'd like...
Business Software Alliance says 35% of packaged software installed on PCs globally is pirated,
Solution: Web-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS & SOA). Negate the need for packaged software (and MS, and the BSA). BSA is jousting at windmills as their Rome burns, to mix metaphors...
It's a good start, a good platform upon which to expand. I would bet IBM would be willing to make Cell+, given their traditional involvement in scientific computing. But you left a key part out of your quote, that even in its current form, Cell appears to be 8x faster and more power efficient than current Opterons and Itaniums in double-precision calculations. Doubling that by making a few modifications to the silicon is probably not out of the question, though whether this would allow Cell+ the price reductions of Cell's economy of scale is another question.
"Overall results demonstrate the tremendous potential of the Cell architecture for scientific computations in terms of both raw performance and power efficiency," the authors wrote. While their current analysis uses hand-optimized code on a set of small scientific kernels, the results are striking. On average, Cell is eight times faster and at least eight times more power efficient than current Opteron and Itanium processors, despite the fact that Cell's peak double precision performance is fourteen times slower than its peak single precision performance. If Cell were to include at least one fully utilizable pipelined double precision floating point unit, as proposed in their Cell+ implementation, these speedups would easily double."
If everyone technology adhered to the same standard, be it ODF, ECMAscript (javascript), tcp/ip, etc., would that constitute an equally vulnerable, just not proprietary, monoculture too?
Without.
Embedded: If you want something faster and easy to write (but not as scalable)
How is it easier to write if its embedded? When I think of embedded, I think of all the html and page content embedded in a servlet, aggregated in a var using String.Append or something similar, and then written to the output stream. It's a lot more difficult to maintain the HTML code in that form than it is if you keep the non-dynamic HTML in file.html and only embed the dynamic stuff in your server-side code. Although it does give you more options for dynamically changing any part of your html, which can be nice...
I think a bigger question has been raised - is the Internet really that fragile?
No, the Internet is robust and redundant. What is fragile are the tens of thousands of pwn3d Windows PC's that are being used without their owners' knowledge to perpetrate these massive DDOS attacks. If I were a lawyer for Blue Security, Yahoo, or anyone else who has been hit recently, I would be seriously looking in to the merits of a lawsuit against MS for gross negligence or something similar.
This time, you can be sure that they would stay precisely inside the letter of the law.
Just GPL the source code, and then MS couldn't use it without sharing the Windows source. That'll fix em. Since Sun has already open-sourced Solaris, what do they have to lose?
Leave it to Apple to set the trends again. I bet all the other companies are gonna copy them and come out with black laptops now... ; )
heh, you jest, but the nice thing about the Mac is that it's all black. If I had a nickle for every part black, part silver-coated plastic, unaesthetic POS laptop on the market, well I'd have a lot of nickles. Why is clean design so darn hard for every company but Apple?
"Or is a blood sample like a fingerprint, something that everyone should provide to their government?"
The difference is, it will be a lot easier in a few years to clone him from a blood sample than from a fingerprint, better enabling the government to create a secret, genetically-programmed clone army of brilliant, amoral hackers with which to better spy on the citizenry.
I don't know whether I'm being funny or serious. Mod me as you see fit.
it appears that the public values security over privacy.
Then they'll deserve, and get, neither. It's just a damn shame that 63% will drag the rest of us with them into their Orwelian nightmare. Fools.
Jason's design exhibits some interesting behavior in Opera 9b. The roundrects that contain each article and its abstract continually, automatically, concentrically increment themselves. Check out a few screengrabs:
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"Knowing Intel, who would have ever thought that the successor to the Core Duo would be the Core 2 Duo!?"
Well I was saving my jokes about redundancy for the Pentium 5, and was disappointed I wouldn't get to use them when they discarded the brand. But lo and behold, Intel gives me Core 2 Duo!
So why not just Core 4 instead? Since we're not in the Gigahertz race anymore, how about the naming scheme numbering race? Those lamers at AMD are sooo not with the program that their chips don't even have numbers! Intel has a great chance to leap ahead and get a head start in chip name numbering race, just combine the 2 and Duo (add or multiply, whatevers) and get 4, eg 4 times the awesomeness of stupid Athlon and Opteron.
Or perhaps Intel's marketers are trying to imitate GNU, but just haven't figured out recursion yet. Here's a hint guys, it's not in the arithmetic texts...