If by very well you mean "I've never heard of or seen someone use it", then yes i-mode is doing great here in the UK.
In all fairness it's only been available for about 3 months now, but I've not seen anyone with an i-mode enabled phone, and most of the phones O2 sell have either WAP or HTML browsers instead of i-mode ones. I've also not seen any marketing for i-mode from O2, so I'm not sure what the future holds for it.
Your logic is based around the concept that every task is highly parallel - they're simply not.
Even Sun don't claim that a T1 is comparable to an Itanium/Power/Sparc for tasks which need a few fast cores, which is why they use examples like Java application servers as the primary benchmark.
The Ultrasparc T1 is not a high-end machine, it's a low end one designed to compete against cheap x86 machines, I think the main surprise for me is that it's not available in a blade form-factor.
On 90% or more of workloads out there, a 32 thread core would have about 28 cores sat idle and 4 cores working flat out.
The reason is pretty simple, though equally it's pretty rubbish.
Movie studios sell the distribution rights for a film to multiple companies, including CD soundtrack producers, toy companies, and DVD distributors, giving each one limited rights in what they can do, including what parts of the world they can sell the finished product.
The DVD distribution company then decides on things like the price they'll sell it to wholesalers at, what extras to include, the packaging design, does all the retail hand-holding, local marketing (if it's a major film the studio will still play a part in all this), and is responsible for the DVD manufacture and shipping out to the wholesalers.
The theory goes that if there wasn't region encoding, the distribution companies wouldn't be willing to pay as much for their monopoly rights to distribute a film in a region, as everyone would buy the version with the extras and packaging they wanted at the cheapest price they could find wherever it came from in the world, rather than pay full retail price in their local country for the version their distributor has decided to produce.
It's only a problem if you're on the Level 3 or Cogent backbones, noone else is affected. If you're a level3 user, you can't get to cogent sites, and vice-versa.
The reason people are asking for change is that they do consider there to be a number of problems with the current system and with ICANN, creation of new top-level domains, the seemingly arbitrary handing over of.com to verisign, and other issues. The EU and other countries would like a bigger say in the resolution of these problems.
It's not a case of wanting the physical relocation of the root servers, as many of them already reside out of the USA. There are a nominal 13 root servers, of which 1 is officially European and 1 is Asian, but there are really 13 clusters of root servers, of which about half have nodes outside the USA.
While the Internet was (obviously) the most successful attempt at building a global network, it wasn't the only one - for example fidonet started in about 1984 (a few years after the IP rfcs were written), and peaked at about 20,000 nodes, and minicom is another example. Most of these other network ended up being gateways onto the Internet, and that's when the Internet stopped being Arpanet and became the Internet of today.
I don't think handing the administrative controll of the Internet from ICANN to the UN would be wonderful, but it's not like ICANN is doing a particularly good job either.
It's been a long time since any internet traffic has gone over government owned cables, these days it's internation communications companies like worldcom, at&t, bt, ntt, and a hundred over companies that lay and own the cabling.
In secure establishments any portable device capable of being used for removing or adding new data bypassing the security is a liability, whether it's done using irda, bluetooth, cable, or pen and paper - i don't think the poor encryption of bluetooth is the issue.
I've used jessops' online service and was very happy - first 10 photos are free if you want to try it out, then it's 20p a photo + £1.50 delivery. They also do mugs, t-shirts, coasters, etc.
I can't find a link, but there's a thumb-print actived usb dongle that does exactly this. you store passwords onto the dongle, then if you want to enter one, you simply plug it in and put your thumb on the dongle. It detects the application being used (e.g. Internet explorer, Windows login), then the form being filled in, then enters the stored details.
Our PBX provider did go out of business, they were called SDX and were huge, now they're part of Avaya who don't support our product.
Being a business based on open-source or closed-source doesn't make a difference to our problem, now noone can support our old SDX system properly and there's no upgrade path for it.
I can't see any obvious reason for sticking to amd or intel here? Unix hardware has been doing this for years, and the open power servers from ibm are pretty cheap, and extremely reliable.
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Certainly not by the original creator, he's repeatedly stated he's not touching it again. It's a shame, but it's true.
If by very well you mean "I've never heard of or seen someone use it", then yes i-mode is doing great here in the UK.
In all fairness it's only been available for about 3 months now, but I've not seen anyone with an i-mode enabled phone, and most of the phones O2 sell have either WAP or HTML browsers instead of i-mode ones. I've also not seen any marketing for i-mode from O2, so I'm not sure what the future holds for it.
Ewan
Nintendogs sold 250,000 copies in the first week, and 1.5 million since launch in the USA alone, that's a seriously huge hit..
http://www.gamershell.com/news/24482.html
http://www.gamespot.com/news/6141751.html
Your logic is based around the concept that every task is highly parallel - they're simply not.
Even Sun don't claim that a T1 is comparable to an Itanium/Power/Sparc for tasks which need a few fast cores, which is why they use examples like Java application servers as the primary benchmark.
The Ultrasparc T1 is not a high-end machine, it's a low end one designed to compete against cheap x86 machines, I think the main surprise for me is that it's not available in a blade form-factor.
On 90% or more of workloads out there, a 32 thread core would have about 28 cores sat idle and 4 cores working flat out.
The reason is pretty simple, though equally it's pretty rubbish.
Movie studios sell the distribution rights for a film to multiple companies, including CD soundtrack producers, toy companies, and DVD distributors, giving each one limited rights in what they can do, including what parts of the world they can sell the finished product.
The DVD distribution company then decides on things like the price they'll sell it to wholesalers at, what extras to include, the packaging design, does all the retail hand-holding, local marketing (if it's a major film the studio will still play a part in all this), and is responsible for the DVD manufacture and shipping out to the wholesalers.
The theory goes that if there wasn't region encoding, the distribution companies wouldn't be willing to pay as much for their monopoly rights to distribute a film in a region, as everyone would buy the version with the extras and packaging they wanted at the cheapest price they could find wherever it came from in the world, rather than pay full retail price in their local country for the version their distributor has decided to produce.
It's only a problem if you're on the Level 3 or Cogent backbones, noone else is affected. If you're a level3 user, you can't get to cogent sites, and vice-versa.
The reason people are asking for change is that they do consider there to be a number of problems with the current system and with ICANN, creation of new top-level domains, the seemingly arbitrary handing over of .com to verisign, and other issues. The EU and other countries would like a bigger say in the resolution of these problems.
It's not a case of wanting the physical relocation of the root servers, as many of them already reside out of the USA. There are a nominal 13 root servers, of which 1 is officially European and 1 is Asian, but there are really 13 clusters of root servers, of which about half have nodes outside the USA.
While the Internet was (obviously) the most successful attempt at building a global network, it wasn't the only one - for example fidonet started in about 1984 (a few years after the IP rfcs were written), and peaked at about 20,000 nodes, and minicom is another example. Most of these other network ended up being gateways onto the Internet, and that's when the Internet stopped being Arpanet and became the Internet of today.
I don't think handing the administrative controll of the Internet from ICANN to the UN would be wonderful, but it's not like ICANN is doing a particularly good job either.
It's been a long time since any internet traffic has gone over government owned cables, these days it's internation communications companies like worldcom, at&t, bt, ntt, and a hundred over companies that lay and own the cabling.
Surely Sun said the network was the computer?
The xbox 360 just uses normal powerpc procesors, not a Cell..
i suspect after 5 gallons of either, both will taste surprisingly similar...
In secure establishments any portable device capable of being used for removing or adding new data bypassing the security is a liability, whether it's done using irda, bluetooth, cable, or pen and paper - i don't think the poor encryption of bluetooth is the issue.
I believe it's because a "funny" moderation no longer affects karma, but an "insightful" does, so some moderators don't bother with funny anymore.
A Sun Fire V20z is an opteron server, so that's just normal x86 linux
Ewan
It depends on the manufacturer and the deal they have with the publisher, but it's something like $7-10 per disc sold.
Ewan
Check out noscript, firefox extension for whitelisting javascript
Ewan
This is really odd, because i just typed "rename" on a 3yr old redhat linux machine and i got this back:
call: rename from to files...
and "man rename" gave me lots of instructions on how to use it. For what you wanted, "rename 2004 2005 *.txt" would have done the job.
Can i ask what distribution you were using that didn't supply a rename command?
Ewan
I've used jessops' online service and was very happy - first 10 photos are free if you want to try it out, then it's 20p a photo + £1.50 delivery. They also do mugs, t-shirts, coasters, etc.
jessops
I can't find a link, but there's a thumb-print actived usb dongle that does exactly this. you store passwords onto the dongle, then if you want to enter one, you simply plug it in and put your thumb on the dongle. It detects the application being used (e.g. Internet explorer, Windows login), then the form being filled in, then enters the stored details.
Very clever, wasn't cheap though.
Ewan
microsoft.com relies on activex, especially the windowsupdate section, but also the genuine advantage section and others.
Ewan
everyone knows that's why you should always carry your phone with built in calculator :)
nc is just "netcat", i don't think suse install it by default, but there's an rpm package on the cds for it.
Ewan
Our PBX provider did go out of business, they were called SDX and were huge, now they're part of Avaya who don't support our product.
Being a business based on open-source or closed-source doesn't make a difference to our problem, now noone can support our old SDX system properly and there's no upgrade path for it.
I can't see any obvious reason for sticking to amd or intel here? Unix hardware has been doing this for years, and the open power servers from ibm are pretty cheap, and extremely reliable.
IBM open power 710
They show up for me, firefox on windows. i think you can disable javascript to stop them