Just to add to my sibling comment, here is a comment from another poster on another article:
First of all, I, and many others before me, have been writing multithreaded applications for years in the likes of Linux and UNIX. I have had to maintain multithreaded applications created by others. My collective experience tells me:
It is not trivial.
Let me repeat: It is not a trivial task. Even if you have libraries and an API which abstracts out the ugly stuff, you still have the problem of concurrency, proper locking, deadlocks, etc....snip...
In short, unless your system/application design cannot do without multithreaded programming, it is best not to use it. Even with a glossy API, you still cannot escape the fact that debugging a multithreaded application is an order of magnitude more difficult than a single threaded one. In any case, you shouldn't be using threads just because you can.
This is what the industry does not want! Why? Digital is forever.
Digital may be forever however that doesn't mean there are no chances to resell the same product. You just need to make it worth it to the consumer. Eg higher bitrates (although that hits a cap pretty fast) or possibly surround sound.
i HAVE heard the same sorts of arguments about the ps2, and things seem to have worked out fine in the end
The PS2 had some major things going for it. For one thing it was cheaper than the PS3. For another it was launched at just the right time. The third thing going for it was that it shipped with a DVD player, which people wanted. Finally Sony negociated some good exclusive agreements, meaning some good games had to come out for the PS2.
The PS2 worked despite being hard to program for.
In addition from what I have heard the PS3 will be harder than the PS2 to program for. That will not help the PS2.
i think the cell is VERY neccessary. as developers get ahold of new tools and middleware
You aren't a programmer. Programming multithreaded code (which is a requirement to use the multiple cores properly) is a factor of ten times harder than single threaded code. At their core games most games are single threaded.
who are YOU to say we dont need the size
The size might be used but we don't need it.
Oh and I'm David Cameron and I know how to use the shift key.
/nitpick And even if air resistance is negligible, that depends on the co-efficients of friction for movement and stationary. There are some materials that have a higher co-efficient for movement.
That is easy, I can answer that. Cell and Blu Ray.
Cell - Harder for people to program for -> more development time -> less people likely to build for it
- cost of development is growing -> more development houses interested in cross platform -> Cell's power not used
- Cell is a good chip for HPC but not for a console.
- adds significantly to the price
Blu Ray - We don't need the size
- adds significantly to the price
I read an interesting account of what it was like to experience waterboarding. It was written by a US prisoner captured in Korea. There was no question in his mind that it was torture.
But I'm sure the US president would have no problems with captured US soldiers undergoing waterboarding.
Violence is always about being nasty to someone - you can't have violence without hurting someone, which provides a moral dilemma about when violence is suitable. Sex however, is normally about being nice to someone. This isn't so much a dilemma, as an education issue - providing both (or more) parties understand what they are doing. The chances of hurting anyone are minimal.
People can be just as hurt by sex, it just isn't as immediately apparent.
I'm sure they'll survive this time, but the business model they're running with is showing cracks. I'll wager the other AV guys like Symantec are rolling around on the floor laughing at this, while MS's reputation at being able to manage the viruses that are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities largely of their its own creation is going down the tubes.
I don't think you totally understand Microsoft's business model. Their first release of a product is often quite bad (particularly when compared to other products) but they catch up fast. The products that don't suck in first releases are the ones they buy in.
Bad MS only products (early releases) - windows - Live - Windows - Office - IE
Products bought in - MSSQL
Microsoft's bigger problem is they can't attract good people any more, and the way they run their business means they burn out good people, so they need a constant stream.
Before throwing your hat in with this guy, you might want to research his motivations. Also, he is a geographer, not a climatologist. Has written zero papers on climatology, has no experience in climatology.
You're making a classic ad hominem attack, just as the parent poster was claiming. There's no valid logical argument, scientific or otherwise, in your retort. You've just proved the parent poster's claims.
How is that an ad hominem attack? It is not an insult, it is a reasonable statement of fact.
It is because in America there are two parties: the right and the far right. Their political spectrum is significantly smaller and far further to the right than most of the rest of the world. Most things look left wing to the US.
Uhh, it's either a full computer or not. A full computer without a keyboard and mouse is NOT a full computer.
It depends on what you are using it for. I have to computers plugged in under my desk that have no mouse and keyboard and are definitely computers (webserver and fileserver).
Just think: if you were working on a big software or documentation project, would you want your QA process to involve nothing but some guy standing up and reading the source code out loud? No way -- everyone would be asleep or bored to tears (well, unless it was Perl, then they'd probably be waiting for his face to just fall off).
There would also be the danger that a gate to hell would open and demons would come pouring out.
This is an interesting problem and after thinking about it for some time I've come up with a solution I think will work.
Kill all of the Bush family, put stakes in their hearts and bury them at crossroads. Burn down all their businesses and spread salt on their farms. Ditto for the Cheney family. You'd probably want to do the same for Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz too just to be safe.
Wait, what was the question again?
(note for the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, Police, Secret Service and President Bush: this is a joke)
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Break your application into separate pieces that, *don't need to communicate very often.*
The problem is knowing where to create the breaks.
Then this is the same kind of problem scalable websites like Google, MySpace, Hotmail and so on, have already
Serving pages scales well with multiple cores/processors/machines. Games don't because there is just one user not millions.
This is what the industry does not want! Why? Digital is forever.
Digital may be forever however that doesn't mean there are no chances to resell the same product. You just need to make it worth it to the consumer. Eg higher bitrates (although that hits a cap pretty fast) or possibly surround sound.
Sorry, my mother was an English teacher.
i HAVE heard the same sorts of arguments about the ps2, and things seem to have worked out fine in the end
The PS2 had some major things going for it. For one thing it was cheaper than the PS3. For another it was launched at just the right time. The third thing going for it was that it shipped with a DVD player, which people wanted. Finally Sony negociated some good exclusive agreements, meaning some good games had to come out for the PS2.
The PS2 worked despite being hard to program for.
In addition from what I have heard the PS3 will be harder than the PS2 to program for. That will not help the PS2.
i think the cell is VERY neccessary. as developers get ahold of new tools and middleware
You aren't a programmer. Programming multithreaded code (which is a requirement to use the multiple cores properly) is a factor of ten times harder than single threaded code. At their core games most games are single threaded.
who are YOU to say we dont need the size
The size might be used but we don't need it.
Oh and I'm David Cameron and I know how to use the shift key.
/nitpick
And even if air resistance is negligible, that depends on the co-efficients of friction for movement and stationary. There are some materials that have a higher co-efficient for movement.
That is easy, I can answer that. Cell and Blu Ray.
Cell - Harder for people to program for -> more development time -> less people likely to build for it
- cost of development is growing -> more development houses interested in cross platform -> Cell's power not used
- Cell is a good chip for HPC but not for a console.
- adds significantly to the price
Blu Ray - We don't need the size
- adds significantly to the price
Now they just redefine what torture is.
I read an interesting account of what it was like to experience waterboarding. It was written by a US prisoner captured in Korea. There was no question in his mind that it was torture.
But I'm sure the US president would have no problems with captured US soldiers undergoing waterboarding.
Just be aware that there are people on both sides who won't compromise.
Violence is always about being nasty to someone - you can't have violence without hurting someone, which provides a moral dilemma about when violence is suitable. Sex however, is normally about being nice to someone. This isn't so much a dilemma, as an education issue - providing both (or more) parties understand what they are doing. The chances of hurting anyone are minimal.
People can be just as hurt by sex, it just isn't as immediately apparent.
What is worse it is a P4 laptop. You can also use it is a toasted sandwich maker, but not on battery.
This makes a mockery of their "new" stance on security.
Yeah it's interesting. We have a customer who rolled out 2k5. Same hardware. One long running report took double the time it took on 2000.
Microsoft adds features, not performance. The one exception was Win2K3.
I'm sure they'll survive this time, but the business model they're running with is showing cracks. I'll wager the other AV guys like Symantec are rolling around on the floor laughing at this, while MS's reputation at being able to manage the viruses that are taking advantage of the vulnerabilities largely of their its own creation is going down the tubes.
I don't think you totally understand Microsoft's business model. Their first release of a product is often quite bad (particularly when compared to other products) but they catch up fast. The products that don't suck in first releases are the ones they buy in.
Bad MS only products (early releases)
- windows
- Live
- Windows
- Office
- IE
Products bought in
- MSSQL
Microsoft's bigger problem is they can't attract good people any more, and the way they run their business means they burn out good people, so they need a constant stream.
He happens to be right.
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All that does is create US based shell companies that contract out to Non-US firms.
How is that an ad hominem attack? It is not an insult, it is a reasonable statement of fact.
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It seems to me America seems to have a very short collective memory and a correspondingly short-term plans.
It is because in America there are two parties: the right and the far right. Their political spectrum is significantly smaller and far further to the right than most of the rest of the world. Most things look left wing to the US.
Uhh, it's either a full computer or not. A full computer without a keyboard and mouse is NOT a full computer.
It depends on what you are using it for. I have to computers plugged in under my desk that have no mouse and keyboard and are definitely computers (webserver and fileserver).
That is one difference. Another is their methods. We should judge groups like this on their methods, not their aims.
I don't know what you'd say about your current government then. It is more inefficient and more oppressive, when compared to earlier ones.
Historically inefficient governments have been very capable of repression, often because of their inefficiency.
Just think: if you were working on a big software or documentation project, would you want your QA process to involve nothing but some guy standing up and reading the source code out loud? No way -- everyone would be asleep or bored to tears (well, unless it was Perl, then they'd probably be waiting for his face to just fall off).
There would also be the danger that a gate to hell would open and demons would come pouring out.
This is an interesting problem and after thinking about it for some time I've come up with a solution I think will work.
Kill all of the Bush family, put stakes in their hearts and bury them at crossroads. Burn down all their businesses and spread salt on their farms. Ditto for the Cheney family. You'd probably want to do the same for Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz too just to be safe.
Wait, what was the question again?
(note for the FBI, CIA, Homeland Security, Police, Secret Service and President Bush: this is a joke)