Ahem, parallelism is the norm not the exception, I have had no program with less than at least three threads written in the last 5 years.
Not SIMD parallelism or active agents, but multithreading has become a standard technique everyone has to use.
Multithreading basically is one of those things you cannot avoid anymore once your programs are a little bit bigger than hello world or the average small shell script.
The main difference is, that the US basically always wanted to be a flagship of the human rights. And kaboom once a serious incident happens on their own soil they basically dump all morale and follow the root of violence and killing off the human rights as some of the worst nations there are currently. (Speaking of north korea etc...)
The armed combatants was a lame excuse for not having to follow the Geneva convention. Ok lets look a little bit deeper, the Geneva convention was signed for a reason, to avoid an endless violence spiral like it happened in the two world wars. If the us dumps it, do you expect that the enemies of the US will uphold the geneva convention?
Do you see the picture. The armed combatants excuse was never part of the Geneva convention, POWs are not only soldiers, armed combatants not having to be part of the convention was just made up as a lame excuse so that Bush and his gang could open a concentration camp. Face it what you guys have in Guantanamo is just a mere concentration camp with people being imprisoned without trial and any rights, and that basically is what is the main difference between a prison and a concentration camp.
Well KWord is not really suitable for big docs, either use OpenOffice (believe me it scales really well with docs of a few hundred pages)
or a DTP program, those are very good at doc sizes like that as well, or good ole LaTeX, proven stable, but somewhat unsexy, but it works.
Dell thinks it is irreplacable, in fact, if they would go down it would not make a huge impact, others instantly would fill the shoes of Dell, within minutes probably.
They have no real assets which are missed except for their brand name.
because suddenly they have noticed that they are replacable. (they always had been, but now that Apple also is on the Intel boat, they are replacable in their eyes.
This is totally bullshit, Intel was cought cold with AMD64 amd made huge inroads into the server market with their 64 bit extensions. Intel had no choice with or without Dell than to copy the instruction set.
Dell just was caught cold either, they did not dare to sell AMD becaus they are Intels bitch so they were screaming for it while Intel already was working on the extension set.
Typical case of vendor trying to claim anything inventionwise, while they just were screaming because their greed was not plastered with money.
the x86 64 bit extensions were an AMD invention, this claim is as hilarious as the one that Microsoft invented the internet.
Dell was not even selling AMD back then!
They could have forked it, but then they could not have gotten the developers (which are kickass, some of the most well known guys in the j2ee world work there) and the customer base.
I used to be such a gamer a few years ago. Nowadays I do not play anymore due to real life taking its toll. But I need a good replacement which will replace my well aged PC and I want my old games from time to time to be playable.
So here Mac Mini or IMac I come.
Maybe because they stole it from IBM extended it embraced it and closed it. SMB once was an open well documented protocol, and now IBM has to pay the samba guy s to keep the documentation and implementations intact to something which once was their baby.
Actually Microsoft was one of the big parties, lobbying for the patent system as is, and it still does in Europe together with a bunch of others.
What they currently do here, is to eat their own dogfood as is.
And they did not do that out of not knowing, Bill Gates ca 1990 gave a good analysis on the problems of patent law, but only with his usual greed in mind, his grade basically let him overlook that what he wanted could rip his company apart as well.
I wonder if all this will affect the Microsoft pro swpat patent lobbying on EU level.
Two reasons why Sony took away the market from Nintendo.
The console had everything which was needed to combine Multimedia with 3d (3d was the latest craze then)
The console was the easiest to pirate for of all 3d enabled gaming consoles. The N64 back then was really hard to pirate due to the modules, while everyone had a CD burner in their PC.
So basically excessive Warezing helped Sony into the seat. One fact that Sony does not dare to admit up until now (not even internally given the whole we screw outselfs over and over again with enforced DRM scheme, Sony seems to follow in their self shootout of the market strategy, it has followed the recent years in their electronics division)
As much as it was groundbreaking about 10-15 years ago, nowadays Eiffel is pretty much dead, same goes for Oberon (which was not even groundbreaking, sorry Nicolas Wirth, but I think it is the truth that a language is not groundbreaking if you just rehash the language = os concepts of the early smalltalks but not the geniality behind of having its minimalism, and only going oo the half way, and then nail the Pascal syntax on top of it.
Anyway back to Eiffel, it really was groundbreaking by introducing design by contract, but it is a dead fish in the water nowadays, like so many languages before it and afterwards, which were declared as the next big thing when they came out.
Maybe it one day will see a revival like Ruby did recently, but for now, forget it:-(
Well there is a saying, Sony media kills Sony Electronics...
And it seems to be true. They lost the MP3 market because they were way too late to the game, they lost over UMD thanks to enforced DRM etc...
Minidisk, Dat whatever you name it. They even lost the DVD market because they sold strongly enforced region coded players which only could play DVDs for the usual Sony High end prices while cheap chinese we play all and give a fuck about this region code stuff players were sold next fpr 50 bucks.
Even the strongest sony home entertainment buyers were put off back then.
The rest of the customers at least here in Europe were driven away by the lousy repair support once Sony took over the vendor support chain they had and replaced it with a centralized send in one.
Sony constantly gets lousy ratings in their support area and people nowadays even recommend not to buy from them anymore. Everyone sees all these problems except for the Sony management, whichs answer to all these problems simply was to lay off people instead of fixing all these issues.
Interesting numbers, I have 2000 users serviced by a single 128MB Tomcat running Jetspeed/Turbine, and has been running that for years now (Uptime can be measured in years)
Thell those to the people who administer exchange, exchange had the huge problem now for years that there is no good way to backup and restore the repos. A server going down and having to restore or relocate an exchange repo is the biggest nightmare of every exchange admin
Dont worry if the us follows the route of IP as it does not, there wont be a market to sell the patent encumbered stuff there, you already can safely ignore the US market, if you want nowadays.
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Ahem, parallelism is the norm not the exception, I have had no program with less than at least three threads written in the last 5 years. Not SIMD parallelism or active agents, but multithreading has become a standard technique everyone has to use. Multithreading basically is one of those things you cannot avoid anymore once your programs are a little bit bigger than hello world or the average small shell script.
As a stockholder you are a partial owner of the company, go figure...
So in one hand the USA wants human rights, at the other hand it basically gets is tutorial on war ethics from Adolf Hitler and Al Quaeda?
The main difference is, that the US basically always wanted to be a flagship of the human rights. And kaboom once a serious incident happens on their own soil they basically dump all morale and follow the root of violence and killing off the human rights as some of the worst nations there are currently. (Speaking of north korea etc...)
The armed combatants was a lame excuse for not having to follow the Geneva convention. Ok lets look a little bit deeper, the Geneva convention was signed for a reason, to avoid an endless violence spiral like it happened in the two world wars. If the us dumps it, do you expect that the enemies of the US will uphold the geneva convention? Do you see the picture. The armed combatants excuse was never part of the Geneva convention, POWs are not only soldiers, armed combatants not having to be part of the convention was just made up as a lame excuse so that Bush and his gang could open a concentration camp. Face it what you guys have in Guantanamo is just a mere concentration camp with people being imprisoned without trial and any rights, and that basically is what is the main difference between a prison and a concentration camp.
Actually Ron Jeremy is an expert in that area, it would be more like making Ron Jeremy the next pope.
Well KWord is not really suitable for big docs, either use OpenOffice (believe me it scales really well with docs of a few hundred pages) or a DTP program, those are very good at doc sizes like that as well, or good ole LaTeX, proven stable, but somewhat unsexy, but it works.
Dell thinks it is irreplacable, in fact, if they would go down it would not make a huge impact, others instantly would fill the shoes of Dell, within minutes probably. They have no real assets which are missed except for their brand name.
because suddenly they have noticed that they are replacable. (they always had been, but now that Apple also is on the Intel boat, they are replacable in their eyes.
This is totally bullshit, Intel was cought cold with AMD64 amd made huge inroads into the server market with their 64 bit extensions. Intel had no choice with or without Dell than to copy the instruction set. Dell just was caught cold either, they did not dare to sell AMD becaus they are Intels bitch so they were screaming for it while Intel already was working on the extension set. Typical case of vendor trying to claim anything inventionwise, while they just were screaming because their greed was not plastered with money.
Actually this sounds more like a laptog to me.
the x86 64 bit extensions were an AMD invention, this claim is as hilarious as the one that Microsoft invented the internet. Dell was not even selling AMD back then!
It is not only servers, jboss has much more to offer, I am just saying Hibernate, JBoss embedded and Seam.
They could have forked it, but then they could not have gotten the developers (which are kickass, some of the most well known guys in the j2ee world work there) and the customer base.
I used to be such a gamer a few years ago. Nowadays I do not play anymore due to real life taking its toll. But I need a good replacement which will replace my well aged PC and I want my old games from time to time to be playable. So here Mac Mini or IMac I come.
Maybe because they stole it from IBM extended it embraced it and closed it. SMB once was an open well documented protocol, and now IBM has to pay the samba guy s to keep the documentation and implementations intact to something which once was their baby.
Actually Microsoft was one of the big parties, lobbying for the patent system as is, and it still does in Europe together with a bunch of others. What they currently do here, is to eat their own dogfood as is. And they did not do that out of not knowing, Bill Gates ca 1990 gave a good analysis on the problems of patent law, but only with his usual greed in mind, his grade basically let him overlook that what he wanted could rip his company apart as well. I wonder if all this will affect the Microsoft pro swpat patent lobbying on EU level.
Two reasons why Sony took away the market from Nintendo. The console had everything which was needed to combine Multimedia with 3d (3d was the latest craze then) The console was the easiest to pirate for of all 3d enabled gaming consoles. The N64 back then was really hard to pirate due to the modules, while everyone had a CD burner in their PC.
So basically excessive Warezing helped Sony into the seat. One fact that Sony does not dare to admit up until now (not even internally given the whole we screw outselfs over and over again with enforced DRM scheme, Sony seems to follow in their self shootout of the market strategy, it has followed the recent years in their electronics division)
As much as it was groundbreaking about 10-15 years ago, nowadays Eiffel is pretty much dead, same goes for Oberon (which was not even groundbreaking, sorry Nicolas Wirth, but I think it is the truth that a language is not groundbreaking if you just rehash the language = os concepts of the early smalltalks but not the geniality behind of having its minimalism, and only going oo the half way, and then nail the Pascal syntax on top of it. Anyway back to Eiffel, it really was groundbreaking by introducing design by contract, but it is a dead fish in the water nowadays, like so many languages before it and afterwards, which were declared as the next big thing when they came out. Maybe it one day will see a revival like Ruby did recently, but for now, forget it :-(
IFPI = International Federation of the Pornographic Industry na cant be, those people behave...
Well there is a saying, Sony media kills Sony Electronics... And it seems to be true. They lost the MP3 market because they were way too late to the game, they lost over UMD thanks to enforced DRM etc... Minidisk, Dat whatever you name it. They even lost the DVD market because they sold strongly enforced region coded players which only could play DVDs for the usual Sony High end prices while cheap chinese we play all and give a fuck about this region code stuff players were sold next fpr 50 bucks. Even the strongest sony home entertainment buyers were put off back then. The rest of the customers at least here in Europe were driven away by the lousy repair support once Sony took over the vendor support chain they had and replaced it with a centralized send in one.
Sony constantly gets lousy ratings in their support area and people nowadays even recommend not to buy from them anymore. Everyone sees all these problems except for the Sony management, whichs answer to all these problems simply was to lay off people instead of fixing all these issues.
Useful websites like weather.com, ebay.com, or wallmart.com? They all run on java.
Interesting numbers, I have 2000 users serviced by a single 128MB Tomcat running Jetspeed/Turbine, and has been running that for years now (Uptime can be measured in years)
Thell those to the people who administer exchange, exchange had the huge problem now for years that there is no good way to backup and restore the repos. A server going down and having to restore or relocate an exchange repo is the biggest nightmare of every exchange admin
Dont worry if the us follows the route of IP as it does not, there wont be a market to sell the patent encumbered stuff there, you already can safely ignore the US market, if you want nowadays.