funny this topic has popped up again after I saw it featured in Scientific American over 10 years ago....the real problem is that no one wants to halve the number of useful gates on a chp in order to bulid all the extra circuitry required to reduce (of course, not eliminate, entropy still will increase though at lessened rate) the thermodynamic cost of "forgetting" data.
I attack instead the basic premise, that there is a shortage of energy, or that we must accept lower standard of life or lower capability in our machinery. What we DO need to do is get smarter about where we get our energy - instead of adding to net heat budget and pollution budget of earth getting really serious about solar energy (which might just mean making hydrocarbon fuel out of plant & suitable waste materials)
Sure Debian is stable compared to others, but too OLD and STALE.....old gcc, old kernel, old etc.... my partners & I found we couldn't use it in my startup business (using RedHat 8 for now, but trying to figure out what's next). Fedora has the problem of the other extreme, too bleeding edge with unknown stability. So, to find a business-class distro, that has free ISO's available for testing technology of next release, I'm wondering if Mandrake might fit the bill. Anyway, if Debian moved just a little faster, would be a great thing.
that's ok, that's about the length of time it takes for a RedHat distro to become obsolete. I'm trying out Mandrake now, RedHat isn't the same company it was from 5 years ago to 6 months ago.
Slashdot is proud to announce it has raised the bar for dupe periodicity, now breaking the 5 year mark. When interviewed, CmdrTaco said "our eventual goal is 25 years. We believe this is a sufficiently long period of time that the dupe will pass under the radars of over 99% of our moderators and readers, especially as most grammar and high school history programs start with events circa 3000bc and invariably the school year ends around or about the time WW II is being covered. Thus for the vast majority of our readers it is impossible for them to have an accurate conceptual framework of recent history. We can monetize this." Darl McBride commented, "this is a good business plan, we here at SCO are pursuing a similar model based on a confusion regarding the history of Unix and Linux".
just fine. MicroFocus is available on Linux and your Unix of choice (I've actually done healthcare adjudication app porting & integration on Linux, AIX, and HP/UX). It has a C API so you can go back and forth between any langauge that supports that (I did Java via JNI). Fujitsu also makes a kick-butt enterprise grade COBOL compiler for Linux & your Unix of choice, and I'm sure there's plenty others out there.
That being said, for 1,000's of users, the mainframe is still the cheapest for price/user. In the 10's to 100's of users, Unix or Linux on server grade machine is dandy.
haha, I used to program a dialect of LISP professionally.....if you want to talk about the least lines of code to get a general job done, probably OCAML would be #1, Ruby #2....LISP in the top 10 anyway. COBOL at the near bottom next to most RISC assembly langauges.
With a 1 to 3 or 1 to 4 price difference, and the big enterprise apps being ported to Linux, and the 2.6 kernel having the hooks to eat into at least the mid range server level when perfected, and the heavy-duty filesystem vendors making enterprise-grade Linux products, I'd say Sun will be mostly dead in 3 years. They're screwed. They're going to lay off all their hardware talent when they hook up with Fujitsu, and Fujitsu doesn't need Sun.
yup, the author wasn't thinking too hard or clearly. How many of us can program in the assembly langauge of the chip that's in our cell phone, microwave oven or car (I don't even know nor care what CPU is in those!) Even those of us that are in front of an Intel or AMD box, how useful is it to most of us to know x86 assembler? Some C/C++/Objective C programmers might find that useful, but for those of use who write Visual Basic or Java or Perl or Python or P/SQL it's.....utterly useless!
Kodak and other companies claim 100+ years for some of their CD-R, but it costs alot more.
Good paper with the right ink or the proper photographic film can last more than 100 years. Heck, with the right type of vellum and ink books can last more than 1,000 years. Books printed on acid-containing paper are disintegrating, but my 20+ year old engineering & science college textbooks will outlast me. Just think if you had taken real photos on real film with a $50 camera you could be showing those pictures to your grandkids someday......
yes, Caldera sued Microsoft about some compatibility problems on anti-trust basis. DEC developed DR-DOS, then Novell bought it, and then Caldera. Caldera then sold it too!
I was just pointing out there is constant flow of ions with fearsome energies to drive your collection antennae all the time,24x7, if you could design something that could survive say 10 million miles from the sun, no need to wait for flare. Even with ordinary solar conversion of just light into energy, there's like 5x the radiant energy at Mercury's orbit (36m miles) than here at earth. But the PROBLEM is that collected energy sent to earth, regardless of where stored or how transmitted, would in the end become waste heat on earth; it's the worst kind of global warming, to add to the heat budget of the planet.
Bipolar transistors have a very different architecture than field effect ones, so never a question of making a FET version of a bipolar one. A simplified way to explain it is that bipolar transistors are current amplifiers, and FET voltage. The use for this 500GHz device would likely be for analog oscillators. mixers & amplifiers, certainly not CPU or memory or gates. Bipolar generally rule the high frequency and high power realm. Within the realm of frequency that the two types overlap, FET's have higher gain, much higher input impedance, use less silicon to make.
wait for solar flare????? you wouldn't *need* to wait for solar flares, there's HUGE amounts of energy pouring from the sun at all times, and much more per square foot within the orbit of mercury. Actually, more than this poor little planet could ever cope with, as a matter of fact. Better to make use of solar energy that would hit the earth anyway as other posters have pointed out.
The only time I saw auroras near Canada (in the U.P of Michigan), there was a very faint blue flickering , not at all like the rich colors I see in photographs. Maybe someone further north could tell us how it appears to naked eye?
that would be a very foolish thing to do, as things are already starting to go very badly for SCO in the courts...the price could plummet to a much more realistic under-$5 a share very soon. Let the legal system tenderize them a little first....
what's really funny, in the tragic way, is that I've been trying out Fedora for the past month, and it's even closer to being a good no-hassle-for-admins-to-set-up business desktop than anything RedHat's put out before (wow, even my wheel button mouse is working with no configuration tweaks!) But now they've totally stabbed us people in the back, or front, who've championed Red Hat's Linux distribution at work (since version 5.x for me). If I can't put together one of their enterprise packages at home to get the kinks out, do you think I'll reccomend it at work? Or do you think I'll give one of the other "enterprise" Linux a shot? Well, Fedora is coming off this machine very soon, and one of the other "Oracle approved" flavors is going on.
amen, could say the same about Stallman's gcc compiler, which is the Great Thing that gives us various kinds of free/liberated operating systems & software.
more shoreline and more waterways == more places Big Cities can thrive. If you've driven from coast to coast, you know that MOST OF THE US is UNINHABITED. This would make more land USEFUL........bring it on, Sol!
but you've hit the nail on the head with completely wiped out because they had no off-site backups or redundant locations The major banks & markets of the world DO have such. A non-nuclear EMP device might take out some city blocks of equipment (maybe....a big enough pulse may just jump right across the adjacent windings of large transformers/motor-generator rigs, through the dielectrics of balancing capacitors, to say nothing of structural shielding........someone should finance a test)
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it seems the biggest blow to the U.S. economy was a few mega-corporations lying about how well they were doing, and there is also the possibility that the CLinton administration lied about how well certain sectors of the economy were doing (with the Bush administration to take the wrap for both). The data/transactions of the major banks & stock markets are replicated at remote sites....and the federal reserve banks have their major sections as underground forts. Still, it makes one wonder what a coordinated attack by these religious sociopaths & misfits could do. One thing is for certain, if one of their goals is to keep the U.S. out of middle east involvement, well, hahah, now we're all over the middle east like stink on shit.
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in the eyes of the U.S. law, he is a "U.S. resident"; he *has* to go to court
err, Linus lives in California....
funny this topic has popped up again after I saw it featured in Scientific American over 10 years ago....the real problem is that no one wants to halve the number of useful gates on a chp in order to bulid all the extra circuitry required to reduce (of course, not eliminate, entropy still will increase though at lessened rate) the thermodynamic cost of "forgetting" data.
I attack instead the basic premise, that there is a shortage of energy, or that we must accept lower standard of life or lower capability in our machinery. What we DO need to do is get smarter about where we get our energy - instead of adding to net heat budget and pollution budget of earth getting really serious about solar energy (which might just mean making hydrocarbon fuel out of plant & suitable waste materials)
Sure Debian is stable compared to others, but too OLD and STALE.....old gcc, old kernel, old etc.... my partners & I found we couldn't use it in my startup business (using RedHat 8 for now, but trying to figure out what's next). Fedora has the problem of the other extreme, too bleeding edge with unknown stability. So, to find a business-class distro, that has free ISO's available for testing technology of next release, I'm wondering if Mandrake might fit the bill. Anyway, if Debian moved just a little faster, would be a great thing.
that's ok, that's about the length of time it takes for a RedHat distro to become obsolete. I'm trying out Mandrake now, RedHat isn't the same company it was from 5 years ago to 6 months ago.
Slashdot is proud to announce it has raised the bar for dupe periodicity, now breaking the 5 year mark. When interviewed, CmdrTaco said "our eventual goal is 25 years. We believe this is a sufficiently long period of time that the dupe will pass under the radars of over 99% of our moderators and readers, especially as most grammar and high school history programs start with events circa 3000bc and invariably the school year ends around or about the time WW II is being covered. Thus for the vast majority of our readers it is impossible for them to have an accurate conceptual framework of recent history. We can monetize this." Darl McBride commented, "this is a good business plan, we here at SCO are pursuing a similar model based on a confusion regarding the history of Unix and Linux".
just fine. MicroFocus is available on Linux and your Unix of choice (I've actually done healthcare adjudication app porting & integration on Linux, AIX, and HP/UX). It has a C API so you can go back and forth between any langauge that supports that (I did Java via JNI). Fujitsu also makes a kick-butt enterprise grade COBOL compiler for Linux & your Unix of choice, and I'm sure there's plenty others out there.
That being said, for 1,000's of users, the mainframe is still the cheapest for price/user. In the 10's to 100's of users, Unix or Linux on server grade machine is dandy.
haha, I used to program a dialect of LISP professionally.....if you want to talk about the least lines of code to get a general job done, probably OCAML would be #1, Ruby #2....LISP in the top 10 anyway. COBOL at the near bottom next to most RISC assembly langauges.
With a 1 to 3 or 1 to 4 price difference, and the big enterprise apps being ported to Linux, and the 2.6 kernel having the hooks to eat into at least the mid range server level when perfected, and the heavy-duty filesystem vendors making enterprise-grade Linux products, I'd say Sun will be mostly dead in 3 years. They're screwed. They're going to lay off all their hardware talent when they hook up with Fujitsu, and Fujitsu doesn't need Sun.
yup, the author wasn't thinking too hard or clearly. How many of us can program in the assembly langauge of the chip that's in our cell phone, microwave oven or car (I don't even know nor care what CPU is in those!) Even those of us that are in front of an Intel or AMD box, how useful is it to most of us to know x86 assembler? Some C/C++/Objective C programmers might find that useful, but for those of use who write Visual Basic or Java or Perl or Python or P/SQL it's .....utterly useless!
Kodak and other companies claim 100+ years for some of their CD-R, but it costs alot more.
Good paper with the right ink or the proper photographic film can last more than 100 years. Heck, with the right type of vellum and ink books can last more than 1,000 years. Books printed on acid-containing paper are disintegrating, but my 20+ year old engineering & science college textbooks will outlast me. Just think if you had taken real photos on real film with a $50 camera you could be showing those pictures to your grandkids someday......
yes, Caldera sued Microsoft about some compatibility problems on anti-trust basis. DEC developed DR-DOS, then Novell bought it, and then Caldera. Caldera then sold it too!
except that SCO has *violated* the GPL & invalidated their permission to use the copyright holder's works.
with their $50 million infusion they can't claim bankruptcy for several quarters
I was just pointing out there is constant flow of ions with fearsome energies to drive your collection antennae all the time,24x7, if you could design something that could survive say 10 million miles from the sun, no need to wait for flare. Even with ordinary solar conversion of just light into energy, there's like 5x the radiant energy at Mercury's orbit (36m miles) than here at earth. But the PROBLEM is that collected energy sent to earth, regardless of where stored or how transmitted, would in the end become waste heat on earth; it's the worst kind of global warming, to add to the heat budget of the planet.
Bipolar transistors have a very different architecture than field effect ones, so never a question of making a FET version of a bipolar one. A simplified way to explain it is that bipolar transistors are current amplifiers, and FET voltage. The use for this 500GHz device would likely be for analog oscillators. mixers & amplifiers, certainly not CPU or memory or gates. Bipolar generally rule the high frequency and high power realm. Within the realm of frequency that the two types overlap, FET's have higher gain, much higher input impedance, use less silicon to make.
wait for solar flare????? you wouldn't *need* to wait for solar flares, there's HUGE amounts of energy pouring from the sun at all times, and much more per square foot within the orbit of mercury. Actually, more than this poor little planet could ever cope with, as a matter of fact. Better to make use of solar energy that would hit the earth anyway as other posters have pointed out.
when you throw up in despair from radiation posioning, we're ended
minutes to hours for a solar flare, see here
The only time I saw auroras near Canada (in the U.P of Michigan), there was a very faint blue flickering , not at all like the rich colors I see in photographs. Maybe someone further north could tell us how it appears to naked eye?
that would be a very foolish thing to do, as things are already starting to go very badly for SCO in the courts...the price could plummet to a much more realistic under-$5 a share very soon. Let the legal system tenderize them a little first....
what's really funny, in the tragic way, is that I've been trying out Fedora for the past month, and it's even closer to being a good no-hassle-for-admins-to-set-up business desktop than anything RedHat's put out before (wow, even my wheel button mouse is working with no configuration tweaks!) But now they've totally stabbed us people in the back, or front, who've championed Red Hat's Linux distribution at work (since version 5.x for me). If I can't put together one of their enterprise packages at home to get the kinks out, do you think I'll reccomend it at work? Or do you think I'll give one of the other "enterprise" Linux a shot? Well, Fedora is coming off this machine very soon, and one of the other "Oracle approved" flavors is going on.
amen, could say the same about Stallman's gcc compiler, which is the Great Thing that gives us various kinds of free/liberated operating systems & software.
more shoreline and more waterways == more places Big Cities can thrive. If you've driven from coast to coast, you know that MOST OF THE US is UNINHABITED. This would make more land USEFUL........bring it on, Sol!
but you've hit the nail on the head with completely wiped out because they had no off-site backups or redundant locations The major banks & markets of the world DO have such. A non-nuclear EMP device might take out some city blocks of equipment (maybe....a big enough pulse may just jump right across the adjacent windings of large transformers/motor-generator rigs, through the dielectrics of balancing capacitors, to say nothing of structural shielding........someone should finance a test)
it seems the biggest blow to the U.S. economy was a few mega-corporations lying about how well they were doing, and there is also the possibility that the CLinton administration lied about how well certain sectors of the economy were doing (with the Bush administration to take the wrap for both). The data/transactions of the major banks & stock markets are replicated at remote sites....and the federal reserve banks have their major sections as underground forts. Still, it makes one wonder what a coordinated attack by these religious sociopaths & misfits could do. One thing is for certain, if one of their goals is to keep the U.S. out of middle east involvement, well, hahah, now we're all over the middle east like stink on shit.