I don't see the problem as lack of CPU power. It's the HCI that's the problem. Unless you have something at least the size of a PDA, it's difficult to do anything serious on it because of the small screen and awkward input, so it doesn't matter that the CPU power isn't there. I suspect that smartphones will die out. Those that really need them will just end up using PDA's with phone capabilities, or just use VOIP.
I'm taking the 80 cores thing with a huge pinch of salt, as I'm sure everyone else is. Many have pointed to the whole "Pentium 4 will scale to 10GHz" debacle as an example of Intel making dubious claims.
However, I've not read anything that would suggest Intel isn't looking at improving memory and bus throughput. They'd be mad to think they can stick 80 cores into an existing system and have it do anything useful. I don't think even Intel are stupid enough to try and get away with that one.
I don't think 80 cores is feasible in the near future, but as long as they keep pushing the envelope and forcing AMD to compete technically, that's just fine by me.
There is a Qt3 support library in Qt4. It does look like some renaming of classes will be required, but I'd imagine any small codebase could be converted reasonably quickly.
Maybe because it's going to be a big change to an OS that millions of people will be using a year from now? Maybe because some of us actually are interested? Given your low slashdot uid, it's disappointing to see you've not learnt much while you've been here.
I'd have to agree there. Several years back I started writing an MUA in GTK. I gave up after a few months and started again using Qt and KDE, since the documentation at the time was far superior. The GTK documentation was absolutely terrible in comparison (they hadn't even finshed documenting GTK v1 before GTK v2 was released), but hopefully it has improved a lot since then. I really have to congratulate Trolltech and the KDE guys though, they've done a fine job.
If it were a straight swap of disk for MRAM, then yes. But MRAM offers considerably more speed, so people will be willing to pay far more for the equivalent disk space, if their situation will benefit from it. It will start off slow, but the price could drop enventually to a point where MRAM becomes a high-end alternative to disks. Then it's only a matter of time...
there are a few exceptional schools in Europe (Oxford and Cambridge coming to mind the most quickly)
Speaking as someone who works in one of the Oxbridge Colleges, I can tell you that what you see from the outside is nothing like what you see on the inside. If I were ever to have kids, I would strongly suggest they avoid either Oxford or Cambridge as a potential place of study.
The place is rife with incompetentence, and absolutely dogged with bureaucracy, politics and backstabbing. I can't understand how the word hasn't got out. It seems to be an extrordinarily well kept secret.
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that'".
Can somebody explain to me why this makes any sense at all? Hey, see that beautiful thing over there? Wouldn't it better if it was dead with holes in it? Insanity.
I mention how bad Microsoft products are for mission critical servers and applications like websites.
On what information are you basing this statement? If you looked at the stats (several comments above have the links) you'll see that IIS 6 compares very well against Apache. When you're making these statements, do you mention these statistics? I'm guessing not. There are plenty of reasons to use Apache over IIS, but security is not top of the list.
I'm all for advocating open source, but if you're going to do it, don't spout bullshit. You come across as nothing more than a MS basher, and frankly, I don't want people like you speaking on my behalf.
Regardless, that is, so I'm told, the reason for the ban, rather than any kind of security fear
I'm a network manager for one of the Cambridge Colleges. It is mostly the reason, although of course the potential bandwidth impact has a bearing on it too. I'm hearing on the grapevine that the Computing Service is just ignoring things like Skype, probably because of it's common use by non students. Personally I think this is a bad idea for several reasons, but mostly because ignoring rules because they're inconvenient sets a bad precedent. Either you have the rule in place for a good reason, or you remove it because you don't.
As an aside, P2P traffic in general has had a dramatic and quite detrimental affect on many of the colleges, some of which are almost unable to cope with the burden that it's putting on their networks. We're somewhat more proactive in managing our traffic though, so it's not been so much of an issue for us.
Students often think we're just being difficult for the hell of it, but fail to see the bigger picture. I certainly never did when I was a student. Kids these days...;)
If you're an American this article is worthless to you.
Welcome to our world. I don't see why it should be worthless though, a review is a review nonetheless. I quite often have to resort to reading US reviews of equipment because decent UK ones are not easy to find, especially on really new equipment. Assuming the models are the same, the reviews can still be useful.
...full of studies that invariably show Linux to be expensive, hard to maintain, and less than totally secure
I suspect the first two are potentially true, but that would depend entirely on the situation. Bad choices can always be made, regardless of the systems involved, that turn out to be expensive and costly to maintain. Just because it's open source doesn't make it immune to bad management.
The third is most definately true. As far as I know there is no OS that is totally secure. It's a lauable goal to be sure, but not one that I ever expect to be reached.
It's free!!! What other piece of software, that is not Microsoft's, makes you verify the OS on which you are running it?
Yes, but Windows isn't, and Microsoft are taking the opportunity to check that your version of Windows isn't ripped off. The reason that I have no issue with it is that I'm happy to accept the terms and conditions under which I can run my copy of Windows, which doesn't include not paying for it.
In much the same vein, I would expect people using the free software I create to comply with the license it's issued under too. It's funny how some people can get all worked up about companies breaking the GPL, but have no problem running software that they should have paid for but didn't.
innovative has lost all meaning.
I wouldn't disagree at all. I don't think for a minute that there is much that is innovative in IE7. Like I said, its marketing. Don't think for a minute that some free software developers don't do the same thing.
I personally don't see why this is a problem, but then I'm one of those strange people that happens to agree with the notion of paying for commercial software.
b) Requires a reboot,
Well, it's the usual tight integration with Windows, so I expected as much. Yeah, it's a bit of a pain, but if you're prepared to install a piece of beta software on your machine, rebooting it is hardly an issue, is it?
c) Actually attempts to pass off things like tabbed browsing and a search bar as innovative
Well, it is, for Explorer. That's just marketing anyway, it's nothing to do with the quality of the product, which is what most of us devlopers are interested in.
Huh? If the headers are longer it's slower. Not faster.
Not exactly. Slightly slower to send, yes, but not process. As I understand it the main difference with IPV6 headers is that they are word-aligned, so require less processing than IPV4 headers which use chunks of bits, therefore requiring bit shifting and extra processing in order to use the information.
So yes, they are longer, but you can use the values in the headers without any additional processing. Okay, the processing is minimal, but when you're dealing with 1gbps or 10gbps interfaces, that processing is done an awful lot.
Well, we all make mistakes. Seriously, do yourself a favour and get away from McAfee as soon as you possibly can. It's a terrible piece of software, letting through numerous viruses that our other software picks up. I'd recommend using Panda personally.
Take a walk round Cambridge and you'll see the evidence. We have the highest count of sub-clinical autism in the country. Obviously the area does have a high concentration of "smart" people, and unfortunately they tend to breed. Geek love eh?
...and used it's monopolistic position - combined with some rather unethical tactics - to grab users away from Netscape.
While there is an element of truth in that, Netscape was more responsible for its downfall than Microsoft was. They made a lot of poor decisions, and failed to make the browser experience better, instead preferring to get into a feature war with IE, one they were ultimately to lose.
A good example of this was Netscape not working with roaming profiles. At my place of work (before my time, but I've discussed it at length with my colleague) they were unable to use Netscape because of this. Numerous discussions with the company resulted in nothing productive - they just weren't interested. That was responsible for a good number of enterprises switching to IE.
The Mozilla foundation have so far done a good job on focusing on making the browser better, adhering to standards (yes, they still have some way to go) and making the user the focus. Lets hope they continue this way, esepcially when IE 7 is released. I'd hate to see another feature war break out.
Ebuyer (UK) currently have 18 of the 270's in stock. Generally they're good on price, although I don't buy server cpu's so I can't say if its true for these or not.
It's a shame they didn't take a look at Europe and see just what a complete waste of time it all was. It's just dumb and retarded. These are programs that people want to use. If they're bothered enough about using something else, it's not difficult to do so. Pointless, just fucking pointless.
Yeah, that's just what Cambridge needs, another bunch of socially incapable "intelligent" people. Sometimes it amazes me that these people manage to get past their teenage years without killing themselves in some pointlessly stupid way. They may be shit hot in their chosen field, but they have the common sense of cheese sandwiches.
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I don't see the problem as lack of CPU power. It's the HCI that's the problem. Unless you have something at least the size of a PDA, it's difficult to do anything serious on it because of the small screen and awkward input, so it doesn't matter that the CPU power isn't there. I suspect that smartphones will die out. Those that really need them will just end up using PDA's with phone capabilities, or just use VOIP.
I'm taking the 80 cores thing with a huge pinch of salt, as I'm sure everyone else is. Many have pointed to the whole "Pentium 4 will scale to 10GHz" debacle as an example of Intel making dubious claims.
However, I've not read anything that would suggest Intel isn't looking at improving memory and bus throughput. They'd be mad to think they can stick 80 cores into an existing system and have it do anything useful. I don't think even Intel are stupid enough to try and get away with that one.
I don't think 80 cores is feasible in the near future, but as long as they keep pushing the envelope and forcing AMD to compete technically, that's just fine by me.
There is a Qt3 support library in Qt4. It does look like some renaming of classes will be required, but I'd imagine any small codebase could be converted reasonably quickly.
Maybe because it's going to be a big change to an OS that millions of people will be using a year from now? Maybe because some of us actually are interested? Given your low slashdot uid, it's disappointing to see you've not learnt much while you've been here.
I'd have to agree there. Several years back I started writing an MUA in GTK. I gave up after a few months and started again using Qt and KDE, since the documentation at the time was far superior. The GTK documentation was absolutely terrible in comparison (they hadn't even finshed documenting GTK v1 before GTK v2 was released), but hopefully it has improved a lot since then. I really have to congratulate Trolltech and the KDE guys though, they've done a fine job.
If it were a straight swap of disk for MRAM, then yes. But MRAM offers considerably more speed, so people will be willing to pay far more for the equivalent disk space, if their situation will benefit from it. It will start off slow, but the price could drop enventually to a point where MRAM becomes a high-end alternative to disks. Then it's only a matter of time...
Speaking as someone who works in one of the Oxbridge Colleges, I can tell you that what you see from the outside is nothing like what you see on the inside. If I were ever to have kids, I would strongly suggest they avoid either Oxford or Cambridge as a potential place of study.
The place is rife with incompetentence, and absolutely dogged with bureaucracy, politics and backstabbing. I can't understand how the word hasn't got out. It seems to be an extrordinarily well kept secret.
"We were looking at a beautiful white-tail buck and my friend said 'If you just had a gun for that'".
Can somebody explain to me why this makes any sense at all? Hey, see that beautiful thing over there? Wouldn't it better if it was dead with holes in it? Insanity.
People who want broadband, and aren't stupid enough to pay NTL?
I mention how bad Microsoft products are for mission critical servers and applications like websites.
On what information are you basing this statement? If you looked at the stats (several comments above have the links) you'll see that IIS 6 compares very well against Apache. When you're making these statements, do you mention these statistics? I'm guessing not. There are plenty of reasons to use Apache over IIS, but security is not top of the list.
I'm all for advocating open source, but if you're going to do it, don't spout bullshit. You come across as nothing more than a MS basher, and frankly, I don't want people like you speaking on my behalf.
Regardless, that is, so I'm told, the reason for the ban, rather than any kind of security fear
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I'm a network manager for one of the Cambridge Colleges. It is mostly the reason, although of course the potential bandwidth impact has a bearing on it too. I'm hearing on the grapevine that the Computing Service is just ignoring things like Skype, probably because of it's common use by non students. Personally I think this is a bad idea for several reasons, but mostly because ignoring rules because they're inconvenient sets a bad precedent. Either you have the rule in place for a good reason, or you remove it because you don't.
As an aside, P2P traffic in general has had a dramatic and quite detrimental affect on many of the colleges, some of which are almost unable to cope with the burden that it's putting on their networks. We're somewhat more proactive in managing our traffic though, so it's not been so much of an issue for us.
Students often think we're just being difficult for the hell of it, but fail to see the bigger picture. I certainly never did when I was a student. Kids these days...
If you're an American this article is worthless to you.
Welcome to our world. I don't see why it should be worthless though, a review is a review nonetheless. I quite often have to resort to reading US reviews of equipment because decent UK ones are not easy to find, especially on really new equipment. Assuming the models are the same, the reviews can still be useful.
...full of studies that invariably show Linux to be expensive, hard to maintain, and less than totally secure
I suspect the first two are potentially true, but that would depend entirely on the situation. Bad choices can always be made, regardless of the systems involved, that turn out to be expensive and costly to maintain. Just because it's open source doesn't make it immune to bad management.
The third is most definately true. As far as I know there is no OS that is totally secure. It's a lauable goal to be sure, but not one that I ever expect to be reached.
It's free!!! What other piece of software, that is not Microsoft's, makes you verify the OS on which you are running it?
Yes, but Windows isn't, and Microsoft are taking the opportunity to check that your version of Windows isn't ripped off. The reason that I have no issue with it is that I'm happy to accept the terms and conditions under which I can run my copy of Windows, which doesn't include not paying for it.
In much the same vein, I would expect people using the free software I create to comply with the license it's issued under too. It's funny how some people can get all worked up about companies breaking the GPL, but have no problem running software that they should have paid for but didn't.
innovative has lost all meaning.
I wouldn't disagree at all. I don't think for a minute that there is much that is innovative in IE7. Like I said, its marketing. Don't think for a minute that some free software developers don't do the same thing.
a) Requires you to validate windows to install,
I personally don't see why this is a problem, but then I'm one of those strange people that happens to agree with the notion of paying for commercial software.
b) Requires a reboot,
Well, it's the usual tight integration with Windows, so I expected as much. Yeah, it's a bit of a pain, but if you're prepared to install a piece of beta software on your machine, rebooting it is hardly an issue, is it?
c) Actually attempts to pass off things like tabbed browsing and a search bar as innovative
Well, it is, for Explorer. That's just marketing anyway, it's nothing to do with the quality of the product, which is what most of us devlopers are interested in.
Fairy nuff, I stand corrected! I knew my IPV6 knowledge was lacking, guess I really should do some reading sometime. :)
Huh? If the headers are longer it's slower. Not faster.
Not exactly. Slightly slower to send, yes, but not process. As I understand it the main difference with IPV6 headers is that they are word-aligned, so require less processing than IPV4 headers which use chunks of bits, therefore requiring bit shifting and extra processing in order to use the information.
So yes, they are longer, but you can use the values in the headers without any additional processing. Okay, the processing is minimal, but when you're dealing with 1gbps or 10gbps interfaces, that processing is done an awful lot.
Next day I had McAfee installed.
Well, we all make mistakes. Seriously, do yourself a favour and get away from McAfee as soon as you possibly can. It's a terrible piece of software, letting through numerous viruses that our other software picks up. I'd recommend using Panda personally.
Take a walk round Cambridge and you'll see the evidence. We have the highest count of sub-clinical autism in the country. Obviously the area does have a high concentration of "smart" people, and unfortunately they tend to breed. Geek love eh?
...and used it's monopolistic position - combined with some rather unethical tactics - to grab users away from Netscape.
While there is an element of truth in that, Netscape was more responsible for its downfall than Microsoft was. They made a lot of poor decisions, and failed to make the browser experience better, instead preferring to get into a feature war with IE, one they were ultimately to lose.
A good example of this was Netscape not working with roaming profiles. At my place of work (before my time, but I've discussed it at length with my colleague) they were unable to use Netscape because of this. Numerous discussions with the company resulted in nothing productive - they just weren't interested. That was responsible for a good number of enterprises switching to IE.
The Mozilla foundation have so far done a good job on focusing on making the browser better, adhering to standards (yes, they still have some way to go) and making the user the focus. Lets hope they continue this way, esepcially when IE 7 is released. I'd hate to see another feature war break out.
Couldn't agree with you more. One of my favourite quotes (Robert F. Kennedy I think) is:
Some men see things they way they are and say, "Why?"
I dream things that never were and say, "Why not?"
The universe would fast become a dull place if we all gave up and decided it wasn't worth looking at it anymore.
Ebuyer (UK) currently have 18 of the 270's in stock. Generally they're good on price, although I don't buy server cpu's so I can't say if its true for these or not.
Something wrong with allofmp3.com?
Ask the artists whose music they sell...
It's a shame they didn't take a look at Europe and see just what a complete waste of time it all was. It's just dumb and retarded. These are programs that people want to use. If they're bothered enough about using something else, it's not difficult to do so. Pointless, just fucking pointless.
Yeah, that's just what Cambridge needs, another bunch of socially incapable "intelligent" people. Sometimes it amazes me that these people manage to get past their teenage years without killing themselves in some pointlessly stupid way. They may be shit hot in their chosen field, but they have the common sense of cheese sandwiches.