If you mean with positive side effects, more speed, forget it, the JVM is pretty fast and up to the task of being faster than a statically compiled executable.
You might gain a boost in loading time, due to the class loader cycly which is bypassed, but dont hope for huge boosts since 90% of the loading time is spent in resource loading (one thing sun never has tackled, they always have doctored at the wrong end of tings loadingwise)
The main benefit is a native executable and no dependency on the jvm, but you will get dependencies into the libgcj...
All you need for decent physics processing (which basically means core mechanics nothing more) is a decent fpu good vector processing for matrices and thats basically it. Are they going to sell, yet another DSP? Or what is the real difference in this new PU? To me the new processor by IBM and Sony sounds like the right step, a good general purpose processor (PowerPC) as normal processing frontend and a powerhouse collections of DSPs in the backend which work parallely.
No... most of them have not been patentet but to realize them you have to rely in existing technologies. Even good ole Newton knew that and that is the deadly game in garage inventions.
You have the idea you realize it bring it to the market and wham you are hit with numerous patent trials before you can say, lets do something else, because you had to rely on something different than the wheel or the fire. (pretty much else already has been sold out by the EPO and USPTO)
The country which will take the technological lead in the future will be the one which will kick patent laws all others will be stiffled by money grabbers and lawyers ad nauseum.
The garage is dead, killed by a sellout USPTO... why do you think there was no invention burst after the bubble exploded...
Guess you can see that inventing is not fun anymore once you try to bring an invention onto the market and instantly have hundreds of patent lawyers on your neck demanding money for things like a progress bar in your application. You are right, the ideas are there but having them realized can cost you your last remnants of money you still have.
Face it in todays climate a new HP, Apple or Microsoft would be impossible.
Well IBM is not like that, at least did not used to be (the recent reports of layouts in germany which should be replaced by support personal from Tzechia and China made me wondering, because those was personal which should have been on the site once problems arise, which is close to impossible)
But besides that you are right, perfect latest example german Siemens where the last two generations of upper management were such crooks, I just wonder how IBM managed to keep them out, or manages depending on the point of view.
But lets push this issue aside, managers were not always like that. Two til three generations ago even managers were attached almost as much to a company as their founders were, I dont know how and why that has changed, I still can remember the era when unprofitable divisions were dragged along and long term efforts were done to push them into the earnings again (which often worked very well, like in the IBM mainframe division) because they didnt want to have the people loose their jobs there. In the end often those divisions only fell victin to a cycle and became the cash cows of the company once the cycle ended.
Nowadays it is, no money maker, not even enough money maker, we sell it off, we close it down, we dump the people who work there.
The companies which buy those sell offs (mostly asians) are the ones which will dominate the market in the long term, because they get the know how.
In the end our economic crisis is basically feed by the greed and managament methods of the west, which are just sellout methods.
Actually they are total failures and excellent examples of US self centered incompetence....
Given their track record, they havent done anything right internationally the last five years, and everbody who gives them a fair amount of deserved constructive critizism is ignored as being unamerican..
Face it Apple always has been much worse. Apple did not invent the GUI, Xerox did, but Apple in the eighties was sueing companies left and right which did guis. Thanks to apple Digital research could not survive with the back then better GUI GEM, Microsoft could and it has become Apples worst nightmare. But it took Microsoft 10 years and a high investement in Apple to get rid of them (although Xerox basically said to the court let them fight over nothing we invented that stuff)
I own an Apple, and they have solid products but they are also one of the fastest in the computer industry to drag people into the courts. If Apple would have been as successful as Microsoft they would be equally bad, they are not, they are sort of the underdog which Microsoft was back in the eighties compared to IBM. But my fears are not to bad regarding this situation Apple never will be as successful as Microsoft.
Actually the ZD of the nineties whas whoring out left and right. I can remember the OS/2 half of an operating system campaign by Microsoft, which tried to badmouth the preemptive multitasking as an unnecessary feature. ZD basically was one of the press whores of this campaign, I can remember articles in various ZD publications where they tried to badmouth the obvious advantages of OS/2 back then. Many ZD articles often only have been copied press releases or rewritten ones.
Microsoft has to thank a good deal of its success to ZD publications so does Intel. Probably without them Windows never would have been as successful as it is today ( I can remember a windows 3.0 article during the OS/2 is bad for you whoring time where they tested Windows and did not even mention one single of the numerous flaws the program had while at the same time running a bad mouth campaign on preemptive multitasking is unnecessary and OS/2 is overkil.. etc.. ad nauseum)
Actually OO is better than Office 97, I have edited a 160 pages document with everything you can name, inside.
Do that with Office 97-2000 you have to split documents into many small parts because MSO has weird memory problems (probably office XP and 03 also still have, those things never are really fixed - same goes for the weird OLE problems Office has had for almost 10 years nwo)
The so called behemoth VM is not that bad memwise...
But you can forget about such things as long as Swing does not plug itself correctly into GTK2 and Qt with its PLAF mechanism.
Actually the only place where I can see java is the database app and the jdbc bindings (they are optional)
The database app uses java because it bundles hsql
and the jdbc bindings use java because of the very good jdbc drivers, but you can use ODBC and others instead of jdbc.
Besides that there is only a java gateway to the components (as well as there is one for.net) but that one is not started during OO startup, since it uses some kind of corba like tcpip mechanism.
So currently java is mostly optional, you only need it if you need the database app and hsql.
Actually... you fell for Microsofts Marketing propaganda, Longhorn to my knowledge wont have the complete API rewritten in C#, it just will have a thin C# layer on top of all relevant APIs...
This makes things more secure but not secure from a buffer overflow standpoint.
What happens is, that the injected data is delegated over a thin C# layer into the win32 API in various parts and hence buffer overflows and other nastyness still is possible.
Face it we are still 10 years away from being able to run windows in a VM with a vm based language having covered every aspect of 20 year old legacy code which by then is dumped.
Sorry... I own a forest and have to say, that us utter b**** think about that, Forests have survived until thousand years ago in Europe without any human to intervene, and you talk about similar natural forest habitats which never saw the hand of man in the US and pledge for artificial forestation. Yes there are uncontrolled fires and yes there are tree diseases, but those are part of a natural cycle.
If you go for artificial forestation and human intervention, such a system can work, as we have it over here in Europe, and yes you can get healthy trees, but the price is high, contrary to your believes, the wildlife suffers severely, you have a high chance of running into a monocoluture of trees which in the end is catastrophic for the soil and for the results of the occasional catastrophy which still occurs.
From what I could see here, the few spots which did not have human intervention had a much more sane ecosystem and wildlife than the huge spots with constant human forestation (my few acres are unfortunately not a natural spot, since I am bound by law to do artifical forestation)
Well there is not too much reason to refill Canons, since they are the only ones who have fair prices for their ink. Not cheap but fair, compared to the rest.
I am currently refilling but only temporarily, due to the fact that yesterday eve I ran out of original ink and could not buy one...
Well X is not a good remote solution, the main Problem with X is, that its drawing commands are really bad, why do you need brezier curves if you have lines only, see the problem?
My hope really is that somebody in the long run will work on a networking adapter interface in Cairo, thus only high level commands are sent over the net which are then rendered hardware accelerated by your local graphics card.
It should be possible. But until then NX/FreeNX really deserve a big thank you for making remote X usable again.
OSX does X-Windows not really that decently, newer extensions are missing which reduce network overhead (well X.org puts lots of effort into that stuff), there is a handful of really important X Programs which cannot directly be ported.
NX Server for instance is severely missing, NX client exists, but you cannot host an NX server on OSX.
Also with the direction X is moving into we will see if Apple follows.
The main problem Apple has, is that it only really hosts X as a client solution (with a local X server) but Aqua itself has not any good and cheap possibility to do some kind of terminal server hosting (which X gets out of the box unusable, but which FreeNX really makes shine)
With MacOSX it is either, stay at the command line over SSH, or use X streaming for the few apps which are ported or use VNC.
The Apple remote desktop also only uses VNC, but costs major bucks and only has apple clients, and Timbuktu only has MacOS and Windows clients and also is very expensive.
Actually Aqua is currently probably the furthest of all GUIs, but it also has problems.
(Having a Mac myself I know the problems)
Compositing needs lots of video RAM, open a handful of Windows on Aqua (or x.org with xcomposite on) and see the rendering speed go down significantly once, the memory limit is reached and stuff has to be swapped over the agp into the main ram.
The next problem Aqua has, is that only a few functions really are hardware accelerated, Fonts for instance still are a problem with no acceleration, overall the rendering speed could be faster.
Where Aqua in its current incarnation really can shine, is in effects where the full hardware acceleration can kick in, which is transparency and shadows. Resizsing windows with shadowing however brings Aqua to a crawl (same goes for x.org xcomposite with shadows)
Dont know if those problems are resolvable with the current crop of graphics cards, but I assume once some rendering stuff, like brezier curves (which is used for font rendering) is moved into the shader level, things will become really interesting.
The biggest gripe I have with Aqua is the missing remote functionality, theoretically it would be possible to stream the PDF drawing functions over the net. That would give a much better solution than plain X directives (which are far too talkative) but Apple does not seem to use it.
If you want to start at ISP level to look for fingerprints...
sharing programs will move towards traffic encryption.
Good luck with the outlawing of encryption, others tried it before.
Actually there is an error regarding the R9200 it has T&L and it has pixel shaders in their first generation incarnation....
Have to know that, have been using exact the same card due to its low heat footprint for years now in my PC.
actually it is small, but not fanless, and it makes a noise... not very much but if you are in a room which is silent you can hear the fans...
But besides that the power management is excellent,
I leave it running 24/7 and have it going into hibernation mode from 2AM to 9-15AM to save additional energy.
The whole box is a no brainer, it simply works.
It currently is hosting Subversion, SSH, Apache, and Cyrus for me, with probably another handful of tasks soon.
Because, a mac mini is about the same price but calmer and sucks less energy...
There are lots of things, the average why dont you buy a pc instead cryer simply does not see.
On the PC side it is either you have the same performance and a calm PC using a Centrino but pay significantly more, or you have to go the Via route and pay pretty much the same with much less performance, or you put a desktop processor into the system and end up with a machine loud as hell and energy draining...
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If you mean with positive side effects, more speed, forget it, the JVM is pretty fast and up to the task of being faster than a statically compiled executable.
You might gain a boost in loading time, due to the class loader cycly which is bypassed, but dont hope for huge boosts since 90% of the loading time is spent in resource loading (one thing sun never has tackled, they always have doctored at the wrong end of tings loadingwise)
The main benefit is a native executable and no dependency on the jvm, but you will get dependencies into the libgcj...
All you need for decent physics processing (which basically means core mechanics nothing more)
is a decent fpu good vector processing for matrices and thats basically it.
Are they going to sell, yet another DSP?
Or what is the real difference in this new PU?
To me the new processor by IBM and Sony sounds like the right step, a good general purpose processor (PowerPC) as normal processing frontend and a powerhouse collections of DSPs in the backend which work parallely.
No... most of them have not been patentet but to realize them you have to rely in existing technologies. Even good ole Newton knew that and that is the deadly game in garage inventions. You have the idea you realize it bring it to the market and wham you are hit with numerous patent trials before you can say, lets do something else, because you had to rely on something different than the wheel or the fire. (pretty much else already has been sold out by the EPO and USPTO)
The country which will take the technological lead in the future will be the one which will kick patent laws all others will be stiffled by money grabbers and lawyers ad nauseum.
Dude... learn to photograph... I had the joy of having to do nudie pics twice this year, just by being a hobby photographer.
The garage is dead, killed by a sellout USPTO... why do you think there was no invention burst after the bubble exploded...
Guess you can see that inventing is not fun anymore once you try to bring an invention onto the market and instantly have hundreds of patent lawyers on your neck demanding money for things like a progress bar in your application. You are right, the ideas are there but having them realized can cost you your last remnants of money you still have.
Face it in todays climate a new HP, Apple or Microsoft would be impossible.
Well IBM is not like that, at least did not used to be (the recent reports of layouts in germany which should be replaced by support personal from Tzechia and China made me wondering, because those was personal which should have been on the site once problems arise, which is close to impossible)
But besides that you are right, perfect latest example german Siemens where the last two generations of upper management were such crooks, I just wonder how IBM managed to keep them out, or manages depending on the point of view.
But lets push this issue aside, managers were not always like that. Two til three generations ago even managers were attached almost as much to a company as their founders were, I dont know how and why that has changed, I still can remember the era when unprofitable divisions were dragged along and long term efforts were done to push them into the earnings again (which often worked very well, like in the IBM mainframe division) because they didnt want to have the people loose their jobs there. In the end often those divisions only fell victin to a cycle and became the cash cows of the company once the cycle ended.
Nowadays it is, no money maker, not even enough money maker, we sell it off, we close it down, we dump the people who work there. The companies which buy those sell offs (mostly asians) are the ones which will dominate the market in the long term, because they get the know how. In the end our economic crisis is basically feed by the greed and managament methods of the west, which are just sellout methods.
Actually they are total failures and excellent examples of US self centered incompetence.... Given their track record, they havent done anything right internationally the last five years, and everbody who gives them a fair amount of deserved constructive critizism is ignored as being unamerican..
Face it Apple always has been much worse. Apple did not invent the GUI, Xerox did, but Apple in the eighties was sueing companies left and right which did guis. Thanks to apple Digital research could not survive with the back then better GUI GEM, Microsoft could and it has become Apples worst nightmare. But it took Microsoft 10 years and a high investement in Apple to get rid of them (although Xerox basically said to the court let them fight over nothing we invented that stuff)
I own an Apple, and they have solid products but they are also one of the fastest in the computer industry to drag people into the courts. If Apple would have been as successful as Microsoft they would be equally bad, they are not, they are sort of the underdog which Microsoft was back in the eighties compared to IBM. But my fears are not to bad regarding this situation Apple never will be as successful as Microsoft.
Actually the ZD of the nineties whas whoring out left and right. I can remember the OS/2 half of an operating system campaign by Microsoft, which tried to badmouth the preemptive multitasking as an unnecessary feature. ZD basically was one of the press whores of this campaign, I can remember articles in various ZD publications where they tried to badmouth the obvious advantages of OS/2 back then. Many ZD articles often only have been copied press releases or rewritten ones. Microsoft has to thank a good deal of its success to ZD publications so does Intel. Probably without them Windows never would have been as successful as it is today ( I can remember a windows 3.0 article during the OS/2 is bad for you whoring time where they tested Windows and did not even mention one single of the numerous flaws the program had while at the same time running a bad mouth campaign on preemptive multitasking is unnecessary and OS/2 is overkil.. etc.. ad nauseum)
Actually the second ngage incarnation was much better hardwarewise...
Actually OO is better than Office 97, I have edited a 160 pages document with everything you can name, inside. Do that with Office 97-2000 you have to split documents into many small parts because MSO has weird memory problems (probably office XP and 03 also still have, those things never are really fixed - same goes for the weird OLE problems Office has had for almost 10 years nwo)
The so called behemoth VM is not that bad memwise... But you can forget about such things as long as Swing does not plug itself correctly into GTK2 and Qt with its PLAF mechanism.
Actually the only place where I can see java is the database app and the jdbc bindings (they are optional) The database app uses java because it bundles hsql and the jdbc bindings use java because of the very good jdbc drivers, but you can use ODBC and others instead of jdbc. Besides that there is only a java gateway to the components (as well as there is one for .net) but that one is not started during OO startup, since it uses some kind of corba like tcpip mechanism.
So currently java is mostly optional, you only need it if you need the database app and hsql.
Actually... you fell for Microsofts Marketing propaganda, Longhorn to my knowledge wont have the complete API rewritten in C#, it just will have a thin C# layer on top of all relevant APIs... This makes things more secure but not secure from a buffer overflow standpoint. What happens is, that the injected data is delegated over a thin C# layer into the win32 API in various parts and hence buffer overflows and other nastyness still is possible. Face it we are still 10 years away from being able to run windows in a VM with a vm based language having covered every aspect of 20 year old legacy code which by then is dumped.
Sorry... I own a forest and have to say, that us utter b**** think about that, Forests have survived until thousand years ago in Europe without any human to intervene, and you talk about similar natural forest habitats which never saw the hand of man in the US and pledge for artificial forestation. Yes there are uncontrolled fires and yes there are tree diseases, but those are part of a natural cycle.
If you go for artificial forestation and human intervention, such a system can work, as we have it over here in Europe, and yes you can get healthy trees, but the price is high, contrary to your believes, the wildlife suffers severely, you have a high chance of running into a monocoluture of trees which in the end is catastrophic for the soil and for the results of the occasional catastrophy which still occurs.
From what I could see here, the few spots which did not have human intervention had a much more sane ecosystem and wildlife than the huge spots with constant human forestation (my few acres are unfortunately not a natural spot, since I am bound by law to do artifical forestation)
Well there is not too much reason to refill Canons, since they are the only ones who have fair prices for their ink. Not cheap but fair, compared to the rest. I am currently refilling but only temporarily, due to the fact that yesterday eve I ran out of original ink and could not buy one...
MPAA is too nice indeed, how about Movie And FIlm Assiociation... short MAFIA...
Well X is not a good remote solution, the main Problem with X is, that its drawing commands are really bad, why do you need brezier curves if you have lines only, see the problem? My hope really is that somebody in the long run will work on a networking adapter interface in Cairo, thus only high level commands are sent over the net which are then rendered hardware accelerated by your local graphics card. It should be possible. But until then NX/FreeNX really deserve a big thank you for making remote X usable again.
OSX does X-Windows not really that decently, newer extensions are missing which reduce network overhead (well X.org puts lots of effort into that stuff), there is a handful of really important X Programs which cannot directly be ported. NX Server for instance is severely missing, NX client exists, but you cannot host an NX server on OSX.
Also with the direction X is moving into we will see if Apple follows. The main problem Apple has, is that it only really hosts X as a client solution (with a local X server) but Aqua itself has not any good and cheap possibility to do some kind of terminal server hosting (which X gets out of the box unusable, but which FreeNX really makes shine) With MacOSX it is either, stay at the command line over SSH, or use X streaming for the few apps which are ported or use VNC.
The Apple remote desktop also only uses VNC, but costs major bucks and only has apple clients, and Timbuktu only has MacOS and Windows clients and also is very expensive.
Actually Aqua is currently probably the furthest of all GUIs, but it also has problems. (Having a Mac myself I know the problems) Compositing needs lots of video RAM, open a handful of Windows on Aqua (or x.org with xcomposite on) and see the rendering speed go down significantly once, the memory limit is reached and stuff has to be swapped over the agp into the main ram.
The next problem Aqua has, is that only a few functions really are hardware accelerated, Fonts for instance still are a problem with no acceleration, overall the rendering speed could be faster.
Where Aqua in its current incarnation really can shine, is in effects where the full hardware acceleration can kick in, which is transparency and shadows. Resizsing windows with shadowing however brings Aqua to a crawl (same goes for x.org xcomposite with shadows)
Dont know if those problems are resolvable with the current crop of graphics cards, but I assume once some rendering stuff, like brezier curves (which is used for font rendering) is moved into the shader level, things will become really interesting.
The biggest gripe I have with Aqua is the missing remote functionality, theoretically it would be possible to stream the PDF drawing functions over the net. That would give a much better solution than plain X directives (which are far too talkative) but Apple does not seem to use it.
If you want to start at ISP level to look for fingerprints... sharing programs will move towards traffic encryption. Good luck with the outlawing of encryption, others tried it before.
Actually there is an error regarding the R9200 it has T&L and it has pixel shaders in their first generation incarnation.... Have to know that, have been using exact the same card due to its low heat footprint for years now in my PC.
But not a silent one with good energy saving feature s and decent performance.
actually it is small, but not fanless, and it makes a noise... not very much but if you are in a room which is silent you can hear the fans... But besides that the power management is excellent, I leave it running 24/7 and have it going into hibernation mode from 2AM to 9-15AM to save additional energy. The whole box is a no brainer, it simply works. It currently is hosting Subversion, SSH, Apache, and Cyrus for me, with probably another handful of tasks soon.
Because, a mac mini is about the same price but calmer and sucks less energy... There are lots of things, the average why dont you buy a pc instead cryer simply does not see. On the PC side it is either you have the same performance and a calm PC using a Centrino but pay significantly more, or you have to go the Via route and pay pretty much the same with much less performance, or you put a desktop processor into the system and end up with a machine loud as hell and energy draining...