Uh, I don't see why this is considered revolutionary. More's law states that chip density doubles every 18-24 months.
Well, 2009 is in 8 years, or 4 doublings if you're going by the 24 month rule. Top of the line chips now are minted at 130 nanometers. Double once, and you get 65, double again and you get 32.5, and double the final time and you get 16 nanometers... and the AMD transistor is 15. Going by the 18 month rule and you get a bit more then 5 doublings.
In other words, while its great that they haven't hit the wall yet, this is really all they're telling us. CPU speed has been improving predictably for decades and this is no exception.
If they'd announced that these transistors were going to be used q1 2002 in new Athlons it might actually have been news:P
I have no idea why they keep posting articals like this to slashdot. Chip design has always been about slow improvement, by the time this actualy hits the streets, it just won't be that impressive.
I'll take a karma bath for this, but who cares. I'm so close to the cap now anyway...
Scheme, you'll note does not have such an obnoxious name, I wouldn't be surprised if it's used more then LISP eventually. Why do you think so many collages and universities jumped on the Scheme bandwagon in the early 90s, when LISP was right there?
Because 'Scheme' sounds better then 'LISP'
Its the same principle that's keeping GNU HURD (rhymes with turd!) from ever amounting to anything. If RMS had called it GNU Concura, or GNU KernalCloud or GNU Multitude it would have been a hit. (ok, there's a little sarcasm in there.)
the GNU system ran for half a decade on commercial UNIXs. It was designed on commercial UNIXs, this is really nothing new, other then the fact that its got a different interface
Of course, who knows how Stallman would actually feel. He opposed GNU work on the original Macintosh, and he clearly isn't the most rational man...
VNC If your nokia has a web browser, you can control your windows desktop from anywhere.
Actually, windows 2000 has a telnet server if you choose to enable it. The problem is that all files are basically a+rwx in windows and you have to setup ACLs on file access for the whole system if you have any other people with log-on rights to the system if you want to have any kind of security. I'm not talking about share security, if any users telnets in they can "DIR" their way anywhere on the system and do whatever they want with the files. If you don't have anyone else using the machine it's not a problem though.
The other problem, of course, is that you just can't really do that many on windows with just the command line:(
Should we be porting software from Windows to Linux(e.g., WINE) instead of from Linux to Windows?
Really, who do you mean by 'we'? This may be a shock to you, but there are some people who actually *ghasp* like windows, myself included. The fact of the matter is, for me, A lot of things are just easier for me to deal with in windows then in Linux, even setting up and running Apache, because I'm more used to it. I have a little Linux box for playing around with, but for the most part I like windows.
I mean, the driving force of Open source software is people doing stuff because they feel like doing it. people doing stuff because they want to. You can't just say "we should work on WINE for accomplishing our political objectives" and then have Everybody magically want to spend their time reimplementing Microsoft skank-nasty APIs
This may bother you, but everything on Debian is Open Source. And that means that you can take it and do whatever you want to with it, including porting it to windows.
If this is a success, there's a good chance I'll be running it.
I think what the above poster wanted would be a mechanism where, if he didn't like a kernel, he'd be able to completely swap it out and replace it with a totally different one with out any significant problems.
Having different kernels with the exact same user space could be pretty convenient. Why deal with more complexity then you have to?
Why is it that so much code has to be wasted on these "we're doing it because WE CAN" projects?
Um, why do you think Linux development was started in the first place? This has a potential to be very useful to a lot of people who actually like windows (or OSX or BSD or GNU HURD even) and don't want to deal with dual booting.
You're not paying these people to work, they aren't doing it for you, they are doing it for themselves. If they didn't want to "waste time" then they wouldn't be working on Debian at all.
What would be the point of switching? you could have everything you want right in front of you (windows apps, linux apps). If anything, It might bring Linux users back to windows. And with win2k the stablity thing isn't so much of a factor anymore.
If you want a video-> flash converter, just write one to do that, I don't see why a Nancy encoder would be able output flash. I don't see why you would want to convert a Nancy file to flash anyway, I don't think it works the way you think it does.. it splits up the image into blocks and then encodes the blocks separately (kind of like lots of little JPGs).
And secondly Joe blow already has a bunch of options for viewing 56k video over his 56k modem... ever heard of Realmedia or mpeg4 (windows media?) You could even do a java applet to decode Nancy video in real time (remember, it doesn't take much CPU power to do)
And finally, you seem really confused about flash. It isn't a streaming format at all, flash files ".swf" are downloaded to your computer and then viewed (sometimes in parts, so you get a nice 'loading' screen). It doesn't matter what kind of connection you have, just what kind of CPU you have.
One of the problems with DivX that I have noticed is that it does not handle low light secenes very well
Well like anything it depends a lot on what encoder is used. It sounds more like a problem with the encoder, or perhaps the person encoding decided to use a quicker integer algorithem rather then using floating point.
Debian actually sounds cool. I'd bet anything that if the distro were just called "Deborah" it wouldn't have much marketshare. Names really do affect people. Why do you think no one uses LISP even though it kicks ass?
Actually what I think happened is that the people picked a cool sounding 'foreign' name, like if it had been developed here they might have called it "Ritsko", or "Miho", or "Daikatana", or something, which might sound cool to American ears but retarded to Japanese (at least for a video codec)
Well, we never had the bandwidth for real videophones.. they were all choppy as fuck when they came out, but now that we do have the bandwidth people are doing video conferencing with webcams and such all the time. It just isn't exciting anymore.
A cell phone with a cam and enough bandwidth (read 3g networks) might actually be popular since you'll actually be able to get a decent video feed.
The benefit of this codec is it's ease of computation, not necessarily it's image quality/bandwidth ratio.
Anyway, since it's so quick to encode (you can do it real-time on a 50mips machine... so cell phone, pda, whatever) You'll probably be able to convert the files as fast as you can copy them to the device, or if you want to stream the videos to a cell phone you can have your computer decode them and then reencode them for broadcast.
Unfortunately this thing seems to be a lot more tied up legaly then MPEG:( It could be a cool way to put videos on my iPaq (Mpeg is still a little choppy)
"Nancy"? Was it named after some coders girlfriend or something?
From a CPU (and therefore an electrical) standpoint the algorithm is better because it uses much simpler mathematics. But I wonder what the video quality would look like. Is it comparable to Mpeg4 based codecs like DivX? This is great for handheld devices, but I doubt it'll make much of a dent on the desktop unless the image quality is a lot better. We already have way more CPU power then we know what to do with:P
So I click the link and I get this huge graphic, advertising the movie "A beautiful mind" I guess. I couldn't figure out what was going on for a while. Weird.
Did salon just start doing this? Is it just on deep linked articles?
What kind of computer is he going to convince mom and dad to buy, so it's compatible with the files he brings home from school?
A PC. I had Macs growing up in school forever, but all I wanted was a PC. I may have been an exception though, after being a Mac zealot for a few years I took a programming class where we used DOS and I loved it. I just thought the command line kicked ass.
But anyway, it's really a moot point these days, most people already have computers, and families are going to buy machines that will work with the files that mommy and daddy bring home from work, not the one junior brings home from school...
But beyond the name 3G and 3GIO both share the 2.5ghz number, so it's possible that someone, somewhere might have thought they interfered with each other.
The above poster meant that the computers were not facing the blackboard, so they did not block anyone's vision.
Still doesn't solve the desk-space issue though. I'd actually say Laptops with wi-fi could be better then desktops though, especially if you give them to the students individually, rather then handing them out at class time.
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Uh, I don't see why this is considered revolutionary. More's law states that chip density doubles every 18-24 months.
:P
Well, 2009 is in 8 years, or 4 doublings if you're going by the 24 month rule. Top of the line chips now are minted at 130 nanometers. Double once, and you get 65, double again and you get 32.5, and double the final time and you get 16 nanometers... and the AMD transistor is 15. Going by the 18 month rule and you get a bit more then 5 doublings.
In other words, while its great that they haven't hit the wall yet, this is really all they're telling us. CPU speed has been improving predictably for decades and this is no exception.
If they'd announced that these transistors were going to be used q1 2002 in new Athlons it might actually have been news
I have no idea why they keep posting articals like this to slashdot. Chip design has always been about slow improvement, by the time this actualy hits the streets, it just won't be that impressive.
What kind moderation is that?
Did they miss the whole second paragraph? And I directly replied to the above poster's point!
Normally I don't complain about moderation but...
I'll take a karma bath for this, but who cares. I'm so close to the cap now anyway...
Scheme, you'll note does not have such an obnoxious name, I wouldn't be surprised if it's used more then LISP eventually. Why do you think so many collages and universities jumped on the Scheme bandwagon in the early 90s, when LISP was right there?
Because 'Scheme' sounds better then 'LISP'
Its the same principle that's keeping GNU HURD (rhymes with turd!) from ever amounting to anything. If RMS had called it GNU Concura, or GNU KernalCloud or GNU Multitude it would have been a hit. (ok, there's a little sarcasm in there.)
the GNU system ran for half a decade on commercial UNIXs. It was designed on commercial UNIXs, this is really nothing new, other then the fact that its got a different interface
Of course, who knows how Stallman would actually feel. He opposed GNU work on the original Macintosh, and he clearly isn't the most rational man...
VNC If your nokia has a web browser, you can control your windows desktop from anywhere.
:(
Actually, windows 2000 has a telnet server if you choose to enable it. The problem is that all files are basically a+rwx in windows and you have to setup ACLs on file access for the whole system if you have any other people with log-on rights to the system if you want to have any kind of security. I'm not talking about share security, if any users telnets in they can "DIR" their way anywhere on the system and do whatever they want with the files. If you don't have anyone else using the machine it's not a problem though.
The other problem, of course, is that you just can't really do that many on windows with just the command line
Should we be porting software from Windows to Linux(e.g., WINE) instead of from Linux to Windows?
Really, who do you mean by 'we'? This may be a shock to you, but there are some people who actually *ghasp* like windows, myself included. The fact of the matter is, for me, A lot of things are just easier for me to deal with in windows then in Linux, even setting up and running Apache, because I'm more used to it. I have a little Linux box for playing around with, but for the most part I like windows.
I mean, the driving force of Open source software is people doing stuff because they feel like doing it. people doing stuff because they want to. You can't just say "we should work on WINE for accomplishing our political objectives" and then have Everybody magically want to spend their time reimplementing Microsoft skank-nasty APIs
This may bother you, but everything on Debian is Open Source. And that means that you can take it and do whatever you want to with it, including porting it to windows.
If this is a success, there's a good chance I'll be running it.
I think what the above poster wanted would be a mechanism where, if he didn't like a kernel, he'd be able to completely swap it out and replace it with a totally different one with out any significant problems.
Having different kernels with the exact same user space could be pretty convenient. Why deal with more complexity then you have to?
Why is it that so much code has to be wasted on these "we're doing it because WE CAN" projects?
Um, why do you think Linux development was started in the first place? This has a potential to be very useful to a lot of people who actually like windows (or OSX or BSD or GNU HURD even) and don't want to deal with dual booting.
You're not paying these people to work, they aren't doing it for you, they are doing it for themselves. If they didn't want to "waste time" then they wouldn't be working on Debian at all.
What would be the point of switching? you could have everything you want right in front of you (windows apps, linux apps). If anything, It might bring Linux users back to windows. And with win2k the stablity thing isn't so much of a factor anymore.
What the hell crack you smokin' boy? When you buy a CD you own it, the disk anyway.
Its actualy the same with software in most states, 'click-wrap' licenses have never been enforcable in court.
If you want a video-> flash converter, just write one to do that, I don't see why a Nancy encoder would be able output flash. I don't see why you would want to convert a Nancy file to flash anyway, I don't think it works the way you think it does.. it splits up the image into blocks and then encodes the blocks separately (kind of like lots of little JPGs).
And secondly Joe blow already has a bunch of options for viewing 56k video over his 56k modem... ever heard of Realmedia or mpeg4 (windows media?) You could even do a java applet to decode Nancy video in real time (remember, it doesn't take much CPU power to do)
And finally, you seem really confused about flash. It isn't a streaming format at all, flash files ".swf" are downloaded to your computer and then viewed (sometimes in parts, so you get a nice 'loading' screen). It doesn't matter what kind of connection you have, just what kind of CPU you have.
One of the problems with DivX that I have noticed is that it does not handle low light secenes very well
Well like anything it depends a lot on what encoder is used. It sounds more like a problem with the encoder, or perhaps the person encoding decided to use a quicker integer algorithem rather then using floating point.
Debian actually sounds cool. I'd bet anything that if the distro were just called "Deborah" it wouldn't have much marketshare. Names really do affect people. Why do you think no one uses LISP even though it kicks ass?
Actually what I think happened is that the people picked a cool sounding 'foreign' name, like if it had been developed here they might have called it "Ritsko", or "Miho", or "Daikatana", or something, which might sound cool to American ears but retarded to Japanese (at least for a video codec)
Well, we never had the bandwidth for real videophones.. they were all choppy as fuck when they came out, but now that we do have the bandwidth people are doing video conferencing with webcams and such all the time. It just isn't exciting anymore.
A cell phone with a cam and enough bandwidth (read 3g networks) might actually be popular since you'll actually be able to get a decent video feed.
The benefit of this codec is it's ease of computation, not necessarily it's image quality/bandwidth ratio.
:( It could be a cool way to put videos on my iPaq (Mpeg is still a little choppy)
Anyway, since it's so quick to encode (you can do it real-time on a 50mips machine... so cell phone, pda, whatever) You'll probably be able to convert the files as fast as you can copy them to the device, or if you want to stream the videos to a cell phone you can have your computer decode them and then reencode them for broadcast.
Unfortunately this thing seems to be a lot more tied up legaly then MPEG
"Nancy"? Was it named after some coders girlfriend or something?
:P
From a CPU (and therefore an electrical) standpoint the algorithm is better because it uses much simpler mathematics. But I wonder what the video quality would look like. Is it comparable to Mpeg4 based codecs like DivX? This is great for handheld devices, but I doubt it'll make much of a dent on the desktop unless the image quality is a lot better. We already have way more CPU power then we know what to do with
that won't help if the link is split up by slash's anti-anti-format features.
So I click the link and I get this huge graphic, advertising the movie "A beautiful mind" I guess. I couldn't figure out what was going on for a while. Weird.
Did salon just start doing this? Is it just on deep linked articles?
Anyway, it was weird.
...will be IM'ing each other during classes, ..., and looking up sports scores. That's the usages I put my TI-83 to...
I didn't know that the '83 had wireless networking!
What kind of computer is he going to convince mom and dad to buy, so it's compatible with the files he brings home from school?
A PC. I had Macs growing up in school forever, but all I wanted was a PC. I may have been an exception though, after being a Mac zealot for a few years I took a programming class where we used DOS and I loved it. I just thought the command line kicked ass.
But anyway, it's really a moot point these days, most people already have computers, and families are going to buy machines that will work with the files that mommy and daddy bring home from work, not the one junior brings home from school...
Well according to the on-screen text I read (or maybe it was the manual) the max players supported was 6.
But beyond the name 3G and 3GIO both share the 2.5ghz number, so it's possible that someone, somewhere might have thought they interfered with each other.
one of the most durable plastic alloys
Isn't that a contradiction in terms?
The above poster meant that the computers were not facing the blackboard, so they did not block anyone's vision.
Still doesn't solve the desk-space issue though. I'd actually say Laptops with wi-fi could be better then desktops though, especially if you give them to the students individually, rather then handing them out at class time.