You can even read the paper here. Its only 3 1/2 pages and you don't need to be an electrical engineer to get it.
My favorite part is the wild misconception people have that moore's law has anything to do with speed. His real observation was basically "We're gonna have more space on a chip to cram stuff on there than we know what to do with."
Keep in mind this was around the time the concepts of RISC were being advanced, basically advocating a push for simplicity. Moore was saying "you guys are trying to find the most effiecient way to store a dozen small boxes in a 800 square foot room, which by the way will be 1600 sq ft in 18 months."
That being said, from an electrical engineering standpoint RISC techniques were needed for chips to scale to where they are today, but you'll notice they've all left the 'simplicity first' mentality behind with things such as out-of-order execution and branch-prediction units.
Basically RISC said "keep it small simple and efficient" and Moore said "who cares, cram it all in there, there's plenty of room" and the industry said "I'll take both."
A consistant stylesheet in conjunction with consistant organization and markup is always the best way to present information on the web.
However when it comes to the LDP i'm reminded of the phrase "You can't polish a turd." The LDP has glaring issues and faults it needs to address or at least figure out how it plans to address. Part of that can be a new format with CSS, but I don't care how well coded a 3 year old howto with downright sketchy advice is.
Novel really has so much potential here and so much to offer I really can't wait for them to get moving.
How about a cross platform groupwise based mail/groupware platform that can honestly compete with exchange?
Or a active directory competitor based on NDS.
Or a well respected certificate program.
Best of all, a genuine compeitor to redhat, forcing some price and service competition.
Between Novel, RedHat, and IBM the next few years are going to be amazing for linux. It would be nice if Sun would stop pussyfooting around, but they've got some issues to work out first.
There's nothing intuitive about an analog watch. The damn things confuse me every time I look at them. I usualy wind up craning my neck slightly to the side, and counting up the minutes in my head.
an 80386 with i486, pentium, athlon, mmx, PCI, USB, ATA etc... hacks around it... Over the years stuff just kind-of gotten piled on, and on and on - with no sensible strucure.
Sounds like they're trying to emulate the spirit of x86 as well as the letter.
Good. Linux on Power is a way better fit that the linux-on-mainframe stuff that was all the rage a year ago. IBM has always positioned Power as a high-end unix platform, so this is more of a seal of approval on linux being a high end unix than it is an attempt to drive Power down into lower end markets.
When the brainwaves are in the 'right' state, the game proceeds or the patterns get prettier. When the brainwaves are erratic, it all slows down.
Sounds like you're just taking the 'do your homework get to go out and play, don't do your homework sit in the corner and stare at the wall' approach, only with a drastically shorter feedback loop.
""Information Pollution" is one of the newer buzz-phrases, appearing in various media to describe unwanted phone calls, faxes, emails, etc. Jakob Nielsen,...
Did anyone else mistake the "." at the end of "etc" for another comma and still think the sentance made perfect sense?
Everybody remember All Advantage? The pyramid-scheme on-screen-ads company. Man I remember getting everyone in my dorm signed up under me. Then we'd all do wacky things to fake being active. Some of us wrote little VB scripts, my roomate would tilt his vornado upwards and put his mouse on it.
Slashdot Mirror
Uhh... you got that backwards right?
Better go post this to slashdot, its an amazing discovery!
My favorite part is the wild misconception people have that moore's law has anything to do with speed. His real observation was basically "We're gonna have more space on a chip to cram stuff on there than we know what to do with."
Keep in mind this was around the time the concepts of RISC were being advanced, basically advocating a push for simplicity. Moore was saying "you guys are trying to find the most effiecient way to store a dozen small boxes in a 800 square foot room, which by the way will be 1600 sq ft in 18 months."
That being said, from an electrical engineering standpoint RISC techniques were needed for chips to scale to where they are today, but you'll notice they've all left the 'simplicity first' mentality behind with things such as out-of-order execution and branch-prediction units.
Basically RISC said "keep it small simple and efficient" and Moore said "who cares, cram it all in there, there's plenty of room" and the industry said "I'll take both."
However when it comes to the LDP i'm reminded of the phrase "You can't polish a turd." The LDP has glaring issues and faults it needs to address or at least figure out how it plans to address. Part of that can be a new format with CSS, but I don't care how well coded a 3 year old howto with downright sketchy advice is.
planot
Do what we do, skip the documentation and intergration.
http://www.debian.org/security/
Novel really has so much potential here and so much to offer I really can't wait for them to get moving.
How about a cross platform groupwise based mail/groupware platform that can honestly compete with exchange?
Or a active directory competitor based on NDS.
Or a well respected certificate program.
Best of all, a genuine compeitor to redhat, forcing some price and service competition.
Between Novel, RedHat, and IBM the next few years are going to be amazing for linux. It would be nice if Sun would stop pussyfooting around, but they've got some issues to work out first.
hahaha, "We're not those 9th circuit wackos!"
Hurr hurr... does it detect the OS as the worlds biggest virus that it is?
Mark this down as a chilly day in hell, I agree with Wolfowitz.
Wow I had no idea this was even being considered for illigality. I do it just to throw off any spam or junkmail that may come of it.
There's nothing intuitive about an analog watch. The damn things confuse me every time I look at them. I usualy wind up craning my neck slightly to the side, and counting up the minutes in my head.
Sounds like they're trying to emulate the spirit of x86 as well as the letter.
Good. Linux on Power is a way better fit that the linux-on-mainframe stuff that was all the rage a year ago. IBM has always positioned Power as a high-end unix platform, so this is more of a seal of approval on linux being a high end unix than it is an attempt to drive Power down into lower end markets.
Last time we tried this, we wound up with a 50-year cold war.
On the plus side, it spurred a crapload of technology development.
You saying we don't?
Sounds like you're just taking the 'do your homework get to go out and play, don't do your homework sit in the corner and stare at the wall' approach, only with a drastically shorter feedback loop.
Thats just what it takes to get started in gentoo!
Did anyone else mistake the "." at the end of "etc" for another comma and still think the sentance made perfect sense?
I'm assuming they went tits up for a reason ;)
Weren't you using it to download porn back then too?
Oh but you do when you get to throw standards of living and labor laws out the window.
Why not just build this into I2... why make a seperate network for reasearch/whatnot amoung colleges.