Companies like Nokia, Intel etc have a fairly independent investment (or venture capital) fund that makes investments in a very broad portfolio of companies. They spread their bets so that whichever horse wins, they win. Its called the spray and pray strategy. As a result, they will frequently make competing investments.
The interesting thing is that just because they invest in a company does not mean that the business units interact with those startups.
It seems Stretch is not the only company that announced such a product today:
EE Times article.
Also, keep in mind, customizable ISAs have been around for a while -- in Tensilica and ARC processors. These guys do it dynamically.
This a power hungry chip and it is not clear what market it targets.
Both Tensilica and ARC Tech, offer processors with customizable ISAs. Since most embedded system designers know what the range of applications that will run on the system are, they statically profile these applications and customize the ISA for Tensilica.
However, it is not clear when one would want to dynamically reconfigure/customize the ISA - why do it dynamically -- especially since it makes the chip much larger (in area), much more power hungry, and more expensive.
Conceptually very interesting, but are there going to be any big buyers ??
What you have described for ASICs is infact Structured ASICs. ASICs are fully hardwired implementation that are synthesized from scratch - no pre-fabrication etc.
None of these websites worked for me. I am a very well qualified Phd in computer science and was able to find better opportunities through contacts than through any of these websites.
I don't understand why everytime India advances technologically, people immediately think "oh they have nuclear weapons". The United States has Nuclear weapons and continues to develop and is the *only* country to ever have used them in war - and it is very debatable whether they needed to - definitely, not the second bomb.
Anyway, I digress - the point I am trying to make, why don't we see this as it is - other countries (besides the US, Germany, UK, France) are also trying to develop advanced avaition and technological capabilities. This is going to happen more often now.
Of all the countries in the world, the last one we have to worry in as far as using nuclear weapons is India. It is so completely against the basic pysche of the country. Clearly, nukes are a deterrant to all the hostile neighbors India has. India lives in a very tough neighborhood bordering Pakistan and China, with Afghanistan only a hundred miles from the border. They have to develop nukes to keep the enemies at bay.
Again, I digress - bottom line: please don't think nukes everytime India develops new space, missile etc technology.
First few lines are:
Visas vs. jobs
While many U.S. tech workers hate the H-1B program, studies suggest its impact is limited.
September 11, 2003: 12:14 PM EDT
By Mark Gongloff, CNN/Money Staff Writer
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A U.S. visa program that allows aliens to temporarily work in technology and other high-paying industries is often blamed for taking American jobs and pushing wages lower. But two recent studies suggest this program might not be as awful as some critics think.
What you have described sounds like bad training - it has no bearing on the capability of the call centers in other countries. Obviously, in this case , DELL did not train these guys well.
I think its important to point out that avifile was first to get the windows media player 9 codecs to work. Its another great multimedia project. Check it out at: http://avifile.sourceforge.net/
About 5 years ago, a research group in my CS department moved from unix to Windows because they were sick of maintaining Makefiles and because the project leader liked the environment of Microsoft Visual C++.
Now, to get them back, kdevelop (or some equivalent project) will have to create a utility that reads MVC++.dsp/.dsw project Makefiles and converts them to Unix makefiles.
And ofcourse the inertia to do this is very high within the group - there seems to be no compelling reason for them to move.
The only reason I ever boot to Windows is for my wife to use Yahoo Messenger so that she can Voice chat and use the webcam. I tried using Gnomemeeting but it was spotty at best. Yahoo Messenger is far ahead of everyone else (it just works !).
The last reason I logon to a Windows 2000 server (via rdesktop) is to make Powerpoint presentations and Excel charts. Both of these tools are far better than their current Unix (StarOffice, KDE) equivalents. Also, most conferences only have PCs running Windows - so you have to use powerpoint (if you want to use the awesome animation that comes with it).
This is the price we pay for commericalization. We cannot expect a commercial company to not Nullify KDE and Gnome. They have to make a uniform interface so that their corporate (and home) users get used to their interface. Its definitely a step in the right direction as far as increasing linux's acceptibility and penetration in the corporate market.
Most courses at most univerisities have online web pages on which faculty frequently post their lecture notes (ppt or pdf slides), their assignments, the syllabus etc.
MIT has done the simple (administratively complex) task of putting all this together and putting it online at one central place.
UC Irvine has a similar effort; all UCI courses *have* to have a website with most of the course material online. I hope they see this MIT effort and take it to the next level of making it completely open and useful for the whole world.
Quote from previous message: >> I don't understand why people keep attributing motives and emotions to an organization like the FSF.
Because the decisions of this "organization" are made by individuals who are obviously petty and fell that they need a pat on their back for everything that is feel open source.
Linux comes from the kernel that Linus wrote - which did not have any GNU software in it !!
Why are they so desperate for taking some of the fame and credit for Linux ? Its like a someone with an inferiority complex trying to say, oh, I had some thing to do this with - as a matter of fact, this should be named after me.
If the people who work on Linux want to, they will rename it to GNU/Linux - the FSF can't just impose a name on them and expect everyone to accept it.
Diamonds are a jewel that have always been sought after and have adorned crown jewels for ages (for example the Kohinoor Diamond that the British stole from India is in the British Royal Crown).
Diamonds are beautiful; hence, they do naturally make a good present to your loved one. The fact that they have been made engagement rings by a marketing campaign is no different from the fact that Christmas and Santa Claus have been commodotized by various marketing campaigns.
The fact of the matter is that the clothese we wear, our attitudes towards things etc, etc, etc are all shaped by media around us.
So, this is what is in now - diamonds are appreciated by women, so, naturally guys will buy them for girls...
Its still the only portable media that can easily (and cheaply) be written to and read that is available on all PCs.
Floppies will die when we can transfer files easily from one PC to another using another media.
For example: sometimes, to make a presentation using a standalone laptop, its easier to just copy the file to a floppy and put it in the laptop and use it.
The same applies if you are going to make a presentation at another location (and not taking your own laptop).
Its a good backup for these kind of situations also (since the network config may fail or something).
I use floppies about 3-5 times a year (not including linux boot floppies).
Its curious that the reviewer used the latest version of all the software except Konqueror. He used Konqueror from KDE 2.2.2 which is about 6 months old.
The latest from KDE 3.0 has been out for a while now (atleast a month); so he cannot even say its brand new, so he couldn't review it.
We have had one for about 2 years in my research building and we used it about 2 or 3 times. The thing is that for teaching classes, if a professor scribbles something on the board, usually the students like to make their own notes anyway.
For meetings, even if you save all this info, nobody ever looks at it again anyway - people like to make their own info.
IMHO, this will take off, when everyone in the class/meeting has a laptop, and the board beams the info to all the people, so that it appears on their screen and they can add their notes and diagrams to it. That would be like taking notes but without having to redraw, rewrite whats on the board.
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Companies like Nokia, Intel etc have a fairly independent investment (or venture capital) fund that makes investments in a very broad portfolio of companies. They spread their bets so that whichever horse wins, they win. Its called the spray and pray strategy. As a result, they will frequently make competing investments.
The interesting thing is that just because they invest in a company does not mean that the business units interact with those startups.
It seems Stretch is not the only company that announced such a product today: EE Times article.
Also, keep in mind, customizable ISAs have been around for a while -- in Tensilica and ARC processors. These guys do it dynamically.
This a power hungry chip and it is not clear what market it targets.
Both Tensilica and ARC Tech, offer processors with customizable ISAs. Since most embedded system designers know what the range of applications that will run on the system are, they statically profile these applications and customize the ISA for Tensilica.
However, it is not clear when one would want to dynamically reconfigure/customize the ISA - why do it dynamically -- especially since it makes the chip much larger (in area), much more power hungry, and more expensive.
Conceptually very interesting, but are there going to be any big buyers ??
What you have described for ASICs is infact Structured ASICs. ASICs are fully hardwired implementation that are synthesized from scratch - no pre-fabrication etc.
None of these websites worked for me. I am a very well qualified Phd in computer science and was able to find better opportunities through contacts than through any of these websites.
I don't understand why everytime India advances technologically, people immediately think "oh they have nuclear weapons". The United States has Nuclear weapons and continues to develop and is the *only* country to ever have used them in war - and it is very debatable whether they needed to - definitely, not the second bomb.
Anyway, I digress - the point I am trying to make, why don't we see this as it is - other countries (besides the US, Germany, UK, France) are also trying to develop advanced avaition and technological capabilities. This is going to happen more often now.
Of all the countries in the world, the last one we have to worry in as far as using nuclear weapons is India. It is so completely against the basic pysche of the country. Clearly, nukes are a deterrant to all the hostile neighbors India has. India lives in a very tough neighborhood bordering Pakistan and China, with Afghanistan only a hundred miles from the border. They have to develop nukes to keep the enemies at bay.
Again, I digress - bottom line: please don't think nukes everytime India develops new space, missile etc technology.
There was no/little displacement of american workers. The H1-B program (ostensibly) is to get people whose skills cannot be found in the US.
So, the H1-B program helped the American economy and was one of the factors for the Internet boom.
http://money.cnn.com/2003/09/11/news/economy/visa
First few lines are:
Visas vs. jobs
While many U.S. tech workers hate the H-1B program, studies suggest its impact is limited.
September 11, 2003: 12:14 PM EDT
By Mark Gongloff, CNN/Money Staff Writer
NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - A U.S. visa program that allows aliens to temporarily work in technology and other high-paying industries is often blamed for taking American jobs and pushing wages lower. But two recent studies suggest this program might not be as awful as some critics think.
What you have described sounds like bad training - it has no bearing on the capability of the call centers in other countries. Obviously, in this case , DELL did not train these guys well.
I asked a reasonably senior guy at Intel if they were hiring. His reply: "Sure we are hiring ... in China and India."
I think its important to point out that avifile was first to get the windows media player 9 codecs to work. Its another great multimedia project. Check it out at:
http://avifile.sourceforge.net/
About 5 years ago, a research group in my CS department moved from unix to Windows because they were sick of maintaining Makefiles and because the project leader liked the environment of Microsoft Visual C++.
.dsp/.dsw project Makefiles and converts them to Unix makefiles.
Now, to get them back, kdevelop (or some equivalent project) will have to create a utility that reads MVC++
And ofcourse the inertia to do this is very high within the group - there seems to be no compelling reason for them to move.
The only reason I ever boot to Windows is for my wife to use Yahoo Messenger so that she can Voice chat and use the webcam. I tried using Gnomemeeting but it was spotty at best. Yahoo Messenger is far ahead of everyone else (it just works !).
The last reason I logon to a Windows 2000 server (via rdesktop) is to make Powerpoint presentations and Excel charts. Both of these tools are far better than their current Unix (StarOffice, KDE) equivalents. Also, most conferences only have PCs running Windows - so you have to use powerpoint (if you want to use the awesome animation that comes with it).
We boot our home machine to Windows only so that we can use Voice and Video Chat on Yahoo Messenger.
Otherwise, I have my wife using only Linux on our home machine.
This is the price we pay for commericalization. We cannot expect a commercial company to not Nullify KDE and Gnome. They have to make a uniform interface so that their corporate (and home) users get used to their interface. Its definitely a step in the right direction as far as increasing linux's acceptibility and penetration in the corporate market.
MIT has done the simple (administratively complex) task of putting all this together and putting it online at one central place.
UC Irvine has a similar effort; all UCI courses *have* to have a website with most of the course material online. I hope they see this MIT effort and take it to the next level of making it completely open and useful for the whole world.
Quote from previous message:
>> I don't understand why people keep attributing motives and emotions to an organization like the FSF.
Because the decisions of this "organization" are made by individuals who are obviously petty and fell that they need a pat on their back for everything that is feel open source.
Linux comes from the kernel that Linus wrote - which did not have any GNU software in it !!
Why are they so desperate for taking some of the fame and credit for Linux ? Its like a someone with an inferiority complex trying to say, oh, I had some thing to do this with - as a matter of fact, this should be named after me.
If the people who work on Linux want to, they will rename it to GNU/Linux - the FSF can't just impose a name on them and expect everyone to accept it.
For years, white people have screwed over Africa. I guess its payback time !
Its obviously the stupid people who fall for these kind of scams - unfortunately, as is the case here, they even screw over others in the process.
Diamonds are a jewel that have always been sought after and have adorned crown jewels for ages (for example the Kohinoor Diamond that the British stole from India is in the British Royal Crown).
...
Diamonds are beautiful; hence, they do naturally make a good present to your loved one. The fact that they have been made engagement rings by a marketing campaign is no different from the fact that Christmas and Santa Claus have been commodotized by various marketing campaigns.
The fact of the matter is that the clothese we wear, our attitudes towards things etc, etc, etc are all shaped by media around us.
So, this is what is in now - diamonds are appreciated by women, so, naturally guys will buy them for girls
Its still the only portable media that can easily (and cheaply) be written to and read that is available on all PCs.
Floppies will die when we can transfer files easily from one PC to another using another media.
For example: sometimes, to make a presentation using a standalone laptop, its easier to just copy the file to a floppy and put it in the laptop and use it.
The same applies if you are going to make a presentation at another location (and not taking your own laptop).
Its a good backup for these kind of situations also (since the network config may fail or something).
I use floppies about 3-5 times a year (not including linux boot floppies).
SG
Its curious that the reviewer used the latest version of all the software except Konqueror. He used Konqueror from KDE 2.2.2 which is about 6 months old.
The latest from KDE 3.0 has been out for a while now (atleast a month); so he cannot even say its brand new, so he couldn't review it.
Anyone else see some bias ?
UC Irvine's HCI group is called CORPS:
Computers, ORganizations, Policy and Society
its at:
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~corps/
As the name suggests, it is more of social sciences group, than a computer science group (as stated by the author above).
I don't get it - why do they have to "keep up" with openoffice - why not just join them ?
Why not pool resources with other open source projects ?
We have had one for about 2 years in my research building and we used it about 2 or 3 times. The thing is that for teaching classes, if a professor scribbles something on the board, usually the students like to make their own notes anyway.
For meetings, even if you save all this info, nobody ever looks at it again anyway - people like to make their own info.
IMHO, this will take off, when everyone in the class/meeting has a laptop, and the board beams the info to all the people, so that it appears on their screen and they can add their notes and diagrams to it. That would be like taking notes but without having to redraw, rewrite whats on the board.
Here is an article on the same subject in the Times of India: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp ?art_id=2867426