I always say the exact same thing about Crossroads. When you get exactly what you expect, and you think about it in that regard, it's actually a pretty good movie.
I imagine (hope) it will get to the point where you just walk around with your entire computer on a flash drive. Where ever you go, you can just plug it into (or use wireless) the existing computer that's sitting on the desk at work, school, or coffee shop. Kind of like a laptop, but in this case, you would only need to carry the data, and just start up the computer with your personal drive in the computer. I see the net being used more as a backup service, to sync your drive to in case it breaks, but I don't see everything moving 100% to the web. I personally don't trust my internet connection enough to house all my documents solely online.
That's not the point. The point is, is that using this RNG may actually be unavoidable in any number of instances. It may not be used in the instances I pointed out, but there could be many uses of this RNG in the OS, and it would be hard to avoid it. Who's to say they didn't update the previously used RNG to just call this one?
because no one is forcing you to use that particular random number generator
That's hard to say. What does Vista use this RNG for internally. Does it use it for generating keys for use in SSL communications in Internet Explorer? Does it use this RNG to generate random keys for connecting to a VPN? Does it use this RNG to create a salt when storing your passwords? Does it use this RNG to generate the keys for BitLocker? There's many places where one may be using this RNG without even knowing it.
I don't think that multicore processors will help me once the antivirus starts scanning my hard disk, or the system does a disk defrag. Most of the slowdowns in those situations are due to waiting for access to the hard drive. I think the same thing is true in about 99% of cases where I'm waiting on my computer. I frequently transcode video and don't notice any problems when trying to run my word processor. That's because the transcoding is run in low priority mode. It doesn't take much longer because most of the time my PC is idle, even when I'm using it, but the rest of the computer is much more responsive because it has priority for the processor available for that.25 seconds when it actually needs it.
Here's the reason that I don't think that is the case. The Wii has been selling out since November 2006. It sold out last Christmas, all the way through the year, and right on through until this Christmas.
That's the way it works in criminal justice. Why not have it work the same way in the classroom? The courts will often hand down harsher punishments to those who have a history of repeatedly breaking the law.
I've had the same problem on single processor machines running Linux for years. I don't know if it's a problem of the keyboard repeat rate being set too low, or something else to that effect, but I notice that a lot of the time on my Linux machines it seems to double/triple type a lot of letters.
It's not just making your app multithreaded, it's completely changing your algorithms so they they take advantage of multiple processors. I took a parallel programming course in University, so I'm by no means an expert, but I'll give what insight I have. You can't just take a standard sort algorithm and run in multithreaded. You have to change the entire algorithm. In the end, you end up with something that sorts faster than n log (n). However, doing this type of programming where you break up the dataset, sort each set, and then gather the results can be very difficult. Many debuggers don't deal well with multiple threads, so that adds an extra layer of difficulty to the whole problem. Granted, I don't think that we really need this level of multithreadedness, but I think that's what the article is referring to. I think that 10+ core CPUs will only really help for those of us who like to do multiple things at the same time. I think it would even be beneficial to keep most apps tied to a single CPU so that a run-away app wouldn't take over the entire computer.
Exactly. They've been going since November 2006 without anybody being able to find one anywhere. If they can keep that momentum up for a year, why not until March, April, or even next Christmas. The only point at which any of this will be hurting Nintendo is when they aren't able to see every single unit within days of it hitting store shelves.
There were rumours that Microsoft did the same thing with the XBox 360 when it first came out. Seems like it didn't work out all that well for them, as their system has been out for twice as long, and has less units sold.
For the record, my Wii seems to have problems with the wireless. If I leave the WiiConnect24 on, after a couple days the wireless router stops responding, and it doesn't kick back on until I turn off the WiiConnect24 , even after I reboot the router.
If people decide to buy something else instead, and never end up buying a Wii, then it is money lost. However, I think that a high percentage of people will just end up buying it later, once units become available. Also, if the buy it later, the cost to produce a Wii might have come down, and Nintendo may end up making more profit per unit. That could yield them even more money in the end.
You would be surprise how many applications don't support IPV6. And how hard it would be to upgrade these applications. Most organizations, government or private, are filled with tons of custom software which was developed many years ago. Many of the applications are an every day part of doing business. A large percentage of these applications probably don't even have source code available to the company, and if they do, the people who originally worked on it have long since moved on. It may just be a simple matter of upgrading a library, and hoping that nothing breaks, but even searching through the code to find the stuff that needs to be fixed would take many man hours.
I could see wanting to carry around my entire CD collection, so things like iPod make sense. In 1 hour you could listen to about 15 songs, so if you want a mix from everything you own, instead of just 1 CD, it makes sense to carry your whole collection on you. However, with books I feel it's quite a bit different. You are going to read 4 minutes from 15 different books in a 1 hour trip. Even if you are going on vacation for a couple weeks, you probably wouldn't go through that many different books that it would be a problem to bring a few with you. Unless you like travelling to exotic out of the way places to sit in a hotel and read books all day.
My iPod Nano can decode MPEG-4 + H.264. Granted, it probably has some special chip, specifically designed to decode it, but I'm sure even a 5-6 year old computer could decode it. Now it might have problems with 1080p MPEG4 files, but for some reason I don't think that's the quality level we're talking about in this case. Flash video is extremely CPU hungry, even with it's terrible encoding quality. I can't imagine that MPEG4 would be any harder on a computer than flash video at the same bit rate.
Now that they are using flash, wouldn't it be possible to use one of the many flash movie downloaders so that you could store the video and watch it whenever you want. Mind you, flash doesn't provide the best video quality, but it would be good enough for watching on an iPod.
You can set any browser you want as the default. And in most cases (about 99.9%) of cases, windows will call the default browser when it needs to navigate to some URL. Sure you can't uninstall IE, but that doesn't mean you have to use it.
And MS has decided to go with the MS Word HTML rendering engine for Outlook 2007. What a terrible piece of crap that is. Just when we thought they were making some headway with IE7, they go and pull this stunt. I'm not the biggest fan of HTML email, but making a move like this is just terrible.
I didn't say anything about blockbuster's business practices, just their business model. I don't rent from them personally, I use a smaller local place to rent movies from.
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I always say the exact same thing about Crossroads. When you get exactly what you expect, and you think about it in that regard, it's actually a pretty good movie.
I imagine (hope) it will get to the point where you just walk around with your entire computer on a flash drive. Where ever you go, you can just plug it into (or use wireless) the existing computer that's sitting on the desk at work, school, or coffee shop. Kind of like a laptop, but in this case, you would only need to carry the data, and just start up the computer with your personal drive in the computer. I see the net being used more as a backup service, to sync your drive to in case it breaks, but I don't see everything moving 100% to the web. I personally don't trust my internet connection enough to house all my documents solely online.
That's not the point. The point is, is that using this RNG may actually be unavoidable in any number of instances. It may not be used in the instances I pointed out, but there could be many uses of this RNG in the OS, and it would be hard to avoid it. Who's to say they didn't update the previously used RNG to just call this one?
I don't think that multicore processors will help me once the antivirus starts scanning my hard disk, or the system does a disk defrag. Most of the slowdowns in those situations are due to waiting for access to the hard drive. I think the same thing is true in about 99% of cases where I'm waiting on my computer. I frequently transcode video and don't notice any problems when trying to run my word processor. That's because the transcoding is run in low priority mode. It doesn't take much longer because most of the time my PC is idle, even when I'm using it, but the rest of the computer is much more responsive because it has priority for the processor available for that .25 seconds when it actually needs it.
Here's the reason that I don't think that is the case. The Wii has been selling out since November 2006. It sold out last Christmas, all the way through the year, and right on through until this Christmas.
That's the way it works in criminal justice. Why not have it work the same way in the classroom? The courts will often hand down harsher punishments to those who have a history of repeatedly breaking the law.
I've had the same problem on single processor machines running Linux for years. I don't know if it's a problem of the keyboard repeat rate being set too low, or something else to that effect, but I notice that a lot of the time on my Linux machines it seems to double/triple type a lot of letters.
It's not just making your app multithreaded, it's completely changing your algorithms so they they take advantage of multiple processors. I took a parallel programming course in University, so I'm by no means an expert, but I'll give what insight I have. You can't just take a standard sort algorithm and run in multithreaded. You have to change the entire algorithm. In the end, you end up with something that sorts faster than n log (n). However, doing this type of programming where you break up the dataset, sort each set, and then gather the results can be very difficult. Many debuggers don't deal well with multiple threads, so that adds an extra layer of difficulty to the whole problem. Granted, I don't think that we really need this level of multithreadedness, but I think that's what the article is referring to. I think that 10+ core CPUs will only really help for those of us who like to do multiple things at the same time. I think it would even be beneficial to keep most apps tied to a single CPU so that a run-away app wouldn't take over the entire computer.
Exactly. They've been going since November 2006 without anybody being able to find one anywhere. If they can keep that momentum up for a year, why not until March, April, or even next Christmas. The only point at which any of this will be hurting Nintendo is when they aren't able to see every single unit within days of it hitting store shelves.
There were rumours that Microsoft did the same thing with the XBox 360 when it first came out. Seems like it didn't work out all that well for them, as their system has been out for twice as long, and has less units sold.
For the record, my Wii seems to have problems with the wireless. If I leave the WiiConnect24 on, after a couple days the wireless router stops responding, and it doesn't kick back on until I turn off the WiiConnect24 , even after I reboot the router.
If people decide to buy something else instead, and never end up buying a Wii, then it is money lost. However, I think that a high percentage of people will just end up buying it later, once units become available. Also, if the buy it later, the cost to produce a Wii might have come down, and Nintendo may end up making more profit per unit. That could yield them even more money in the end.
Oh, I know. Is it because they send so many young people to die in wars that they shouldn't be involved in in the first place?
You would be surprise how many applications don't support IPV6. And how hard it would be to upgrade these applications. Most organizations, government or private, are filled with tons of custom software which was developed many years ago. Many of the applications are an every day part of doing business. A large percentage of these applications probably don't even have source code available to the company, and if they do, the people who originally worked on it have long since moved on. It may just be a simple matter of upgrading a library, and hoping that nothing breaks, but even searching through the code to find the stuff that needs to be fixed would take many man hours.
I could see wanting to carry around my entire CD collection, so things like iPod make sense. In 1 hour you could listen to about 15 songs, so if you want a mix from everything you own, instead of just 1 CD, it makes sense to carry your whole collection on you. However, with books I feel it's quite a bit different. You are going to read 4 minutes from 15 different books in a 1 hour trip. Even if you are going on vacation for a couple weeks, you probably wouldn't go through that many different books that it would be a problem to bring a few with you. Unless you like travelling to exotic out of the way places to sit in a hotel and read books all day.
Thanks for posting that. After seeing the kindle I thought that all hopes of having a nice looking, stylish e-book reader had been lost.
Somehow the phrase "simple as sudo apt-get install nspluginwrapper" doesn't have quite the same ring to it as "simple as pie".
My iPod Nano can decode MPEG-4 + H.264. Granted, it probably has some special chip, specifically designed to decode it, but I'm sure even a 5-6 year old computer could decode it. Now it might have problems with 1080p MPEG4 files, but for some reason I don't think that's the quality level we're talking about in this case. Flash video is extremely CPU hungry, even with it's terrible encoding quality. I can't imagine that MPEG4 would be any harder on a computer than flash video at the same bit rate.
Now that they are using flash, wouldn't it be possible to use one of the many flash movie downloaders so that you could store the video and watch it whenever you want. Mind you, flash doesn't provide the best video quality, but it would be good enough for watching on an iPod.
MS was part of the W3C and at one time said they would support CSS. We all know where that has gotten us.
You can set any browser you want as the default. And in most cases (about 99.9%) of cases, windows will call the default browser when it needs to navigate to some URL. Sure you can't uninstall IE, but that doesn't mean you have to use it.
"ftp ftp.mozilla.org". That's how I always download Firefox on my Windows machines. That way I never have to run IE.
And MS has decided to go with the MS Word HTML rendering engine for Outlook 2007. What a terrible piece of crap that is. Just when we thought they were making some headway with IE7, they go and pull this stunt. I'm not the biggest fan of HTML email, but making a move like this is just terrible.
I didn't say anything about blockbuster's business practices, just their business model. I don't rent from them personally, I use a smaller local place to rent movies from.