It may be interesting join this approach to the one exposed by Wolfram in his new 1200-page book "A new kind of science", which states that all the systems in the universe are the result of computations based on simple rules (Cellular Automata as a computation model) and that a "computational equivalence rule" exists, so that all these systems (eventually contained one into other, ending up in the whole universe) are the result of "equivalent" computational models.
Check this article on wired, or the whole book:) and, if you have (a lot of) spare time, think about it.
cheers.
This is veryt interesting, but the Open Source in the public administration is still very rare.
The computing systems of the whole EU will probably be standardized or at least some guidelines will be given to individual countries.
This will be the main battlefield among all competitors (MS, Open Source, Sun, & C...)... and it's easy to see that the whole European Union is as important as the US!
Also in Italy some suggestions tu use open source software were defined, but the MS software is still ruling...
I think I will watch and see...
The ability to get more money by holding down SHIFT and typing F-U-N-D-S.
When I read about this in a magazine I thought that my financial problems were finished..... than I realized it was only for the "money" to be used in the game... crap!
...having "premium" TLD is not a bad idea, and is OK also to have TLDs such as.xxx or.sex. This may help to make things clearer in the domain assignation.
In the very beginning the domains were assigned with some kind of control on the owner (if you were an ISP you could have.net otherwise not); now everything goes under ".com", and this is also very bad for DNS efficiency!
This could be a "back to the origin" way of managing names&numbers.
But this question arises: who and how will enforce the rules on which the domains should be assigned? This is not a trivial problem (even if it is not techical at all)....
wow.... if I run my own web server on my laptop during my flight, and something interesting happens on my site, and thi fact is reported to/. ... this could be the first/.ed plane!
fun, cool!
Please check the GotW site (here).
Here you can really check if you are a C++ expert. For instance, from the first Excexptional C++ book (here) you can find one of the deepest thinking about "exception safety".
Beleive me, I know tons of experienced C++ coders who don't know that a method who simply makes if-then-else and cout something on then and else branches can end in more than 20 different execution paths! (the topic is quite big, check the book... trust me, it's worth!)
MS made a smart move hiring one of the most famous C++ guru, and moderator of "Guru of the week" (GotW, here).
(The Exceptional C++ books are selections from the GoW series).
I really think that this will enhance the MS' C++ offer quality, and including the GotW thinkabout in its future design is a kind of "bazaar" approach!... Funny!
Trend in modern computing
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Programming Jabber
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· Score: 2, Informative
machines and programs can use a general purpose communication system like this, with no human middleman required.
This is on of the hottest topic for the near-future computing world.
Anyway the SOAP (+WSDL+UDDI, ie: the Web Services) initiative seems much closer to be the real mover in this environment.
Interesting (but not suprisingly), XML is the basic enabling technology for all these efforts.
One of the most relevant problem of wireless networking, at the moment, is the way you can debug it.
I quote from 'Unix System Administration Handbook' (3rd edition):
Debugging a wireless network is also something of a black art, since a wide range of variables come into play when there are problems. In short, wireless is currently a neat toy for homes, small offices, conferences, or the beach, but it's not going to replace wired corporate backbones anytime soon.
I would like much to know about researchs in this issue of the wireless networking: if you propose a new wireless network model, it's ok, but: how can I debug it...
I have a dream: wireless networks as easy to debug as RJ45-based Ethernet ones.
I guess it is possible to have good games written in java. A good example is Dungeon Master Clone which is a very good clone of the original Amiga game (loved it!).
So actually on a moderate hardware your Java environment is little faster than an Amiga 2000. In a future it could easily become better... even if actually 80% of games (90% of console games) use almost all system resources, but, beware: it is always possible to code in a Java environment and use common APIs which are implemented as native system calls (by the JVM) for high performance tasks as 3D.
If such JVMs are designed on top on exsiting, or future, consolle, you could have a Java environment 80% as fast as native C environment. It could work.... maybe!
Theorem:
1 - 170mm (17 cm) is more or less the average length of a penis.
2 - The designer of this m/board think it is very small
so:
1+2 => all the designers are John Holmes' childrens.
This is the most useful naming convention you can use:
1 - you are the only one who (after 100 randomly named servers) probably owns the complete list of names.
2 - no one can figure out whether asd356m is a web or ftp server and is on the second or first floor, room ???.
After few randomly named server you will became the only source of knowledge for your company; so your value will became veeeeery high. You can then ask a payrise every 3 months ("otherwise you can give to the other guys the management over sj3457ssf and qrio2d3" !).
Make things unanderstandable and YOU will became the most valuable resource of your company.
(Programmers' adaption of the previous rule:
Use a very bad programming style! If it takes a month to add 5 lines of code... you will grant yourself work forever!; check this)
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They have no choice but to unite. This is what must happen in hard drives. It will happen.
:)
If you change you post in this way it's perfect for the article about the IBM & Hitachi....
per-seat licensing
:)
Don't sit down while using it, remove the seats from the pc room, and you're done!
It may be interesting join this approach to the one exposed by Wolfram in his new 1200-page book "A new kind of science", which states that all the systems in the universe are the result of computations based on simple rules (Cellular Automata as a computation model) and that a "computational equivalence rule" exists, so that all these systems (eventually contained one into other, ending up in the whole universe) are the result of "equivalent" computational models. :) and, if you have (a lot of) spare time, think about it.
Check this article on wired, or the whole book
cheers.
This is veryt interesting, but the Open Source in the public administration is still very rare.
The computing systems of the whole EU will probably be standardized or at least some guidelines will be given to individual countries.
This will be the main battlefield among all competitors (MS, Open Source, Sun, & C...)... and it's easy to see that the whole European Union is as important as the US!
Also in Italy some suggestions tu use open source software were defined, but the MS software is still ruling...
I think I will watch and see...
Where were you on April 1, 1972?
I don't remember.
actually, it should be "I know, but I can't tell you"
OMG!!!! I leased the wrong house!!!! I'm offering sacrifices to a bank employee.....!!!!! .sig .... sigh!)
(I've got to change my
The ability to get more money by holding down SHIFT and typing F-U-N-D-S.
... crap!
When I read about this in a magazine I thought that my financial problems were finished..... than I realized it was only for the "money" to be used in the game
'Vovida Open Communications Applications Library' ('VOCAL')
Maybe they started the project only because they had found a cool acronym!...:)
...I'm wondering if I can also kill flies with this, or put it under the shorter leg of my table!
...having "premium" TLD is not a bad idea, and is OK also to have TLDs such as .xxx or .sex. This may help to make things clearer in the domain assignation. .net otherwise not); now everything goes under ".com", and this is also very bad for DNS efficiency!
In the very beginning the domains were assigned with some kind of control on the owner (if you were an ISP you could have
This could be a "back to the origin" way of managing names&numbers.
But this question arises: who and how will enforce the rules on which the domains should be assigned? This is not a trivial problem (even if it is not techical at all)....
We reached a 3-borg limit on the same /. page!!!
(I know it's a little offtopic.... but at least let me scream!)
Catastrophe (Hedging) Program
:)
I though this was the code name of their last OS!
God is making a type cast of sub atomic particles! :)
wow.... if I run my own web server on my laptop during my flight, and something interesting happens on my site, and thi fact is reported to /.
... this could be the first /.ed plane!
fun, cool!
Please check the GotW site (here).
Here you can really check if you are a C++ expert. For instance, from the first Excexptional C++ book (here) you can find one of the deepest thinking about "exception safety".
Beleive me, I know tons of experienced C++ coders who don't know that a method who simply makes if-then-else and cout something on then and else branches can end in more than 20 different execution paths! (the topic is quite big, check the book... trust me, it's worth!)
MS made a smart move hiring one of the most famous C++ guru, and moderator of "Guru of the week" (GotW, here).
(The Exceptional C++ books are selections from the GoW series).
I really think that this will enhance the MS' C++ offer quality, and including the GotW thinkabout in its future design is a kind of "bazaar" approach!... Funny!
machines and programs can use a general purpose communication system like this, with no human middleman required.
This is on of the hottest topic for the near-future computing world.
Anyway the SOAP (+WSDL+UDDI, ie: the Web Services) initiative seems much closer to be the real mover in this environment.
Interesting (but not suprisingly), XML is the basic enabling technology for all these efforts.
....onion.... the problem is onion! :)
whenever somebody around ate onion my spectrum analyzer goes mad!
One of the most relevant problem of wireless networking, at the moment, is the way you can debug it.
I quote from 'Unix System Administration Handbook' (3rd edition):
Debugging a wireless network is also something of a black art, since a wide range of variables come into play when there are problems. In short, wireless is currently a neat toy for homes, small offices, conferences, or the beach, but it's not going to replace wired corporate backbones anytime soon.
I would like much to know about researchs in this issue of the wireless networking: if you propose a new wireless network model, it's ok, but: how can I debug it...
I have a dream: wireless networks as easy to debug as RJ45-based Ethernet ones.
I guess it is possible to have good games written in java. A good example is Dungeon Master Clone which is a very good clone of the original Amiga game (loved it!).
So actually on a moderate hardware your Java environment is little faster than an Amiga 2000.
In a future it could easily become better... even if actually 80% of games (90% of console games) use almost all system resources, but, beware: it is always possible to code in a Java environment and use common APIs which are implemented as native system calls (by the JVM) for high performance tasks as 3D.
If such JVMs are designed on top on exsiting, or future, consolle, you could have a Java environment 80% as fast as native C environment. It could work.... maybe!
the greatest game ever created
...do you mean the greatest videogame, I hope... (you know... I can think to better games to play :) ).
...At least you can't complain about spamming. :)
Maybe they designed an anti-spam filter and went a bit too further.
Theorem: 1 - 170mm (17 cm) is more or less the average length of a penis. 2 - The designer of this m/board think it is very small so: 1+2 => all the designers are John Holmes' childrens.
[random combination of numbers and letters]
This is the most useful naming convention you can use:
1 - you are the only one who (after 100 randomly named servers) probably owns the complete list of names.
2 - no one can figure out whether asd356m is a web or ftp server and is on the second or first floor, room ???.
After few randomly named server you will became the only source of knowledge for your company; so your value will became veeeeery high. You can then ask a payrise every 3 months ("otherwise you can give to the other guys the management over sj3457ssf and qrio2d3" !).
Make things unanderstandable and YOU will became the most valuable resource of your company.
(Programmers' adaption of the previous rule: Use a very bad programming style! If it takes a month to add 5 lines of code... you will grant yourself work forever!; check this)