If it ever happens, yes... but so far it's just a message on a bulletin board. Implementing the JVM itself is no trivial task, and would take years to reach the performance and stability of Sun's JVM even with huge resources. They have chosen their own unique architecture so I don't think code reuse is in their plan.
Then there are the class libraries, which have sprawled to a massive scale, and in comparison make implementing the JVM look easy. Look at Wine, which still isn't an alternative for Win32 (only selected applications are supported), after years and years of work. Or Mono, which cannot and probably never will run arbitrary.Net apps.
Mod it to -1 flamebait again if you wish, but it's factually true. There is no society without mothers and fathers rearing children.
Usually "discrimination" referrs to treating things differently when they are actually the same. But marriage and homosexual union have little in common. Marriage is the bedrock of society in a way that homosexual union can never be. Family - a mother and father creating and raising children - is the basis for the human species. Anything else, isn't.
Usually "discrimination" referrs to treating things differently when they are actually the same. But marriage and homosexual union have little in common. Marriage is the bedrock of society in a way that homosexual union can never be. Family - a mother and father creating and raising children - is the basis for the human species. Anything else, isn't.
What I think WILL happen is a mass consolidation of most of the current small VoIP companies.
Are you so sure? VOIP companies are not like traditional phone or cable companies, because they don't own the infrastructure. VOIP providers don't dig up roads to bury cable or have an army of technicians in every city. Since there is no big capital investment, what is to stop competition?
The reasons, or excuses, or whatever you want to call it, are not really relevant to their threat as a competitor. They are churning out engineers and other educated people in huge numbers, and their economy is growing very fast.
Some aspects of economics are zero-sum. The world has a fixed amount of minerals and fossil fuels, and only needs a small handful of semiconductor companies.
512 Megabytes is enough for about 70 full 1600x1200x32 bpp framebuffers.
I can't imagine the card is fast enough to render 70 layers in real time. Even reading 512 MB of data in 1/30 of a second would take 15 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which I don't think they have.
More is always better in my book, and nobody likes texture thrashing. But now it seems memory may be outstripping currently available display resolutions. 512 MB would be a lot more useful on a 200 dpi screen.
Serious question here. Does production software exist to drive arbitrary computation across a GPU?
No, because graphics hardware cannot do arbitrary computation. At least not at anything like the FLOPS it achieves doing graphics.
I've attended a workshop on using graphics hardware for accelerating other computation and it's mostly hype IMHO. It amounts to rendering images of your problem, then doing feature extraction on the image. So the *effective* FLOPs, i.e. the amount dedicated to *your* task rather than the overhead of reducing from a rendering task, aren't all that impressive.
A more serious challenger to this transmeta-based system, IMHO, is the cell processor.
That's not even a product, it's just a schematic. Talking about building a computer than only has $20K of parts, and running an actual business by selling those computers for $20K each are two very different things.
I've had bad results using different drivers for the same device without a reeboot in between. I believe the first driver left the device in a state which the second driver did not expect.
I also had a case where just compiling support radeonfb for a module I never loaded prevented other drivers for the device from working.
...in order to update a driver, be it 2D or 3D or whatever, you need at least to reboot X....
What we need is to modify xlib to support "server migration"
There is VNC which breaks the fixed association between an X session and an X display. I find this handy for long-running X programs (such as a bittorrent client) I might want to start from home, and pull up from another location (ok... work) later on.
Unfortunately, VNC is useless when you need high performance.
I was a bit jealous upon noticing that XPs remote desktop can migrate a "normal" logged-in session to a remote session. (Then again I was a bit disgusted when I noticed XP pro can only host 1 user session at once - logging in remotely kicks off the terminal user!)
I'm sure this is an obvious question, but how does quantum cryptography protect against man-in-the-middle attacks? Observing the quantum state destroys it. Can I generate new photons whose state matches what I observed? If not, How can the sender encrypt the message with the quantum key, if he can neither observe the key without destroying it, nor generate a particular key at will?
Point taken, but I don't think the main drive for efficient CPUs is to decrease global energy consumption. But rather, to be able to ramp the clock speed higher, make desktops quieter, and make laptops run longer on battery.
I admire your stoicism, but how about finding better solutions that are less objectionable?
Instead of ugly power lines, let's lay power and telephone lines underground, even if it does cost a few extra bucks. Instead of hundreds of cell towers, how about a high altitude airship?
The government would be waiting with an awesome arsenal of firepower, waiting to forcefully take your tools from you.
As I understand it, there are no tools to take because you can't bring anything with you, not even clothing. For this reason it may be wise to place the convention near a gay bar where a variety of outfits can be stolen.
Because if the meeting happened before they sent out the invites, they wouldn't have bothered to send out the invites, so it never would have happened in the first place.
Before the Iraq war, Iraq had hardly any influence on Americans at all. Since the war, Americans are dying in Iraq every day. How does that equate to "safer"?
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But a standalone DVR is so limited in functionality, at least for now. In a few more generations, I suppose they will catch up with what a livingroom PC can do today - not just VCR functionality, but play (networked) video games, DVDs, huge capacity music jukebox, hold all your photos for a slide show, burn shows (or anything else) to DVD... plus whatever WebTV does.
I'm not saying a livingroom PC is right for everybody, but it probably makes sense for a lot of slashdot readers.
Mine is an 850 mhz computer I was retiring. Simply replacing the power supply with a quiet one, plus setting the hard drives to auto power-down, took the noise level below the heating, and the refrigerator in the next room.
It also hosts VNC desktops for my family members, accessible by laptop and the desktop computer in the study. I can even call up my wife's desktop from work to help her figure things out on occasion when she phones for help. And I run Linux Advanced Routing to prioritize VOIP traffic, which keeps the voice quality fine even when I'm listening to music at work (also streamed from my livingroom PC - no mp3's on work computers!).
Again, not yet for everybody, but it's all very nice and natural once you're accustomed to it.
For the quarter ending March 31, the Redmond, Wash.-based company earned $2.56 billion, or 23 cents per share, up from $1.32 billion, or 12 cents per share, a year ago.
Bah, mere chump change. Let's hear it for Shell Oil, with a profit (not revenue!) of 9.3Bn pounds (not measley US dollars!) In comparison, I can see what a disappointment Microsoft's missed earnings target must be, and why they need to uncap the H1B program to get more cheap labor.
I just find it comforting, with my deflating techie salary and rising energy prices, that at least somebody is having a good time.
All depends on how much they sell. For that price, I wouldn't be buying. That last think I need is yet another $40/month bill. Telephone, cable TV, DSL, netflix, cellphone, newspaper, now wireless... how many different bills will consumers put up with for essentially the same thing?
Geez, the open source community is about as ungrateful as it gets.
Huh? You seem to forget who is riding whose back here. Before massive infusions of free code, Apple failed to develop a badly needed new OS for years and years.
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when they do, they're threatened with litigation if so much as a single source file goes missing or sneered at if detailed instructions outlining the process of merging two complicated code bases together isn't present
Is anybody threatening litigation here, or did you simply pull that factoid out of your rear end? (That's a rhetorical question by the way).
It does seem to me that the PC game industry is dying though. Sure, it will never be entirely extinct, but it will increasingly play second fiddle to the console, which is far cheaper overall and, more importantly, actually functions correctly most of the time.
My past favorite genre, flight simulators, is already pretty much dead. Four years ago people laughed at the idea of it dying, but that's just what happened.
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Then there are the class libraries, which have sprawled to a massive scale, and in comparison make implementing the JVM look easy. Look at Wine, which still isn't an alternative for Win32 (only selected applications are supported), after years and years of work. Or Mono, which cannot and probably never will run arbitrary .Net apps.
Usually "discrimination" referrs to treating things differently when they are actually the same. But marriage and homosexual union have little in common. Marriage is the bedrock of society in a way that homosexual union can never be. Family - a mother and father creating and raising children - is the basis for the human species. Anything else, isn't.
Some aspects of economics are zero-sum. The world has a fixed amount of minerals and fossil fuels, and only needs a small handful of semiconductor companies.
I can't imagine the card is fast enough to render 70 layers in real time. Even reading 512 MB of data in 1/30 of a second would take 15 GB/s of memory bandwidth, which I don't think they have.
More is always better in my book, and nobody likes texture thrashing. But now it seems memory may be outstripping currently available display resolutions. 512 MB would be a lot more useful on a 200 dpi screen.
And you didn't even mention the grave threat to National Security posed by WEP.
I've attended a workshop on using graphics hardware for accelerating other computation and it's mostly hype IMHO. It amounts to rendering images of your problem, then doing feature extraction on the image. So the *effective* FLOPs, i.e. the amount dedicated to *your* task rather than the overhead of reducing from a rendering task, aren't all that impressive.
A more serious challenger to this transmeta-based system, IMHO, is the cell processor.
That's not even a product, it's just a schematic. Talking about building a computer than only has $20K of parts, and running an actual business by selling those computers for $20K each are two very different things.
I also had a case where just compiling support radeonfb for a module I never loaded prevented other drivers for the device from working.
Unfortunately, VNC is useless when you need high performance.
I was a bit jealous upon noticing that XPs remote desktop can migrate a "normal" logged-in session to a remote session. (Then again I was a bit disgusted when I noticed XP pro can only host 1 user session at once - logging in remotely kicks off the terminal user!)
I wonder what they use that 10 TB of disk for? I would think every version of the Linux kernel ever released would fit in the 24 GB of RAM.
I'm sure this is an obvious question, but how does quantum cryptography protect against man-in-the-middle attacks? Observing the quantum state destroys it. Can I generate new photons whose state matches what I observed? If not, How can the sender encrypt the message with the quantum key, if he can neither observe the key without destroying it, nor generate a particular key at will?
Point taken, but I don't think the main drive for efficient CPUs is to decrease global energy consumption. But rather, to be able to ramp the clock speed higher, make desktops quieter, and make laptops run longer on battery.
Especially because you not only have to pay for the electricity, but then also for the cooling system to get rid of all that heat.
Instead of ugly power lines, let's lay power and telephone lines underground, even if it does cost a few extra bucks. Instead of hundreds of cell towers, how about a high altitude airship?
I'm not saying a livingroom PC is right for everybody, but it probably makes sense for a lot of slashdot readers.
Mine is an 850 mhz computer I was retiring. Simply replacing the power supply with a quiet one, plus setting the hard drives to auto power-down, took the noise level below the heating, and the refrigerator in the next room.
It also hosts VNC desktops for my family members, accessible by laptop and the desktop computer in the study. I can even call up my wife's desktop from work to help her figure things out on occasion when she phones for help. And I run Linux Advanced Routing to prioritize VOIP traffic, which keeps the voice quality fine even when I'm listening to music at work (also streamed from my livingroom PC - no mp3's on work computers!).
Again, not yet for everybody, but it's all very nice and natural once you're accustomed to it.
I just find it comforting, with my deflating techie salary and rising energy prices, that at least somebody is having a good time.
All depends on how much they sell. For that price, I wouldn't be buying. That last think I need is yet another $40/month bill. Telephone, cable TV, DSL, netflix, cellphone, newspaper, now wireless... how many different bills will consumers put up with for essentially the same thing?
It does seem to me that the PC game industry is dying though. Sure, it will never be entirely extinct, but it will increasingly play second fiddle to the console, which is far cheaper overall and, more importantly, actually functions correctly most of the time.
My past favorite genre, flight simulators, is already pretty much dead. Four years ago people laughed at the idea of it dying, but that's just what happened.