I don't think we will would even have to go that far 2400dpi is only necessary for good color reproduction most text is probably in the 300dpi-600dpi since digital photocopies get pretty close to the original and those machines aren't much more than a decent scnner and laserprinter. So I'll be happy with a A4 sized screen in that league (probably same size like you said but im to lazy to figure out how large it is in the metric system;)
Not just that. Good, acid free paper (not the 19th/early 20th stuff) last a long time while this electronic paper probably will loose its content in a lot shorter time. And in the worst case we can't read it because of some copyright protection shit.
Well that might well be but the Transrapid has been in development for a long time and construction for the first comercial track will start soon (Shanghai airport -> innercity) and China might well decide that Shanghai -> Peking might be a good for the Olympics.
Well Europe is once again already planing one check this out!
O.K. maybe not supersonic but evacuated none the less. Btw. you dont need superconductors for Maglev at least the German Transrapid does not need it, makes it cheaper, too.
From my experience HPs support is pretty good so I would not worry to much. What worries me more is that HP might chose to pull the plug on OpenVMS and ditch Ultrix(whatever they called it lately) in favor of HP-UX.
Looking over their website I found out that the founder of Sistina used to be an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota, and if I recall correctly I also read about it first on some.edu website when I was pissed off about NFS;). So it looks to me that some people decided yet again to get rich with a codebase payed in parts by tax money (although not mine since I'm German).
This IMHO is bad style although the comunity might be able to persuade them to something like like the duallicensing with Qt.
I really don't know, though my guess is that it has to do a lot with WindRiver's buyout of BSDi because the SMP stuff really only got rolling because of BSDi's involvement with FreeBSD.
Maybe somebody knows how well WindRiver is doing at this moment.
Actually although I do not like SuSE much they have done a lot more for Linux on big iron lately than Redhat or Mandrake (S/390, AS/400) and they also have support for most workstations (Alpha, Sparc, PPC) which can't be said for Redhat let alone Mandrake.
Besides that, Suse did not go IPO and they still made money not so long ago. This means they did not burn OSS enthusiasts money which can not be said about Redhat and Mandrake. I would guess you just hope to get some return on your investment, but I am sure that if Suse goes down the drain Linux stocks will follow right behind.
So think again, its not always those distros you hear the most from which are the most important.
On a sidenote the parentpost is moded a 5 - are all moderators on crack or what?
Well at least the German DOJ is currently looking into the copyprotection schemes since those prevent the consumer to make personal copies to which you have a right in Europe.
They are not selling hardware they are selling integrated systems - which means a hardware platform with an OS especially made for it. So if they manage to roll their own linux kernel and keep it reasonably up to date this might work. But installing stock SuSE or Redhat on their machines will not cut it.
I actually do not have any hope left for SGI. Here is why:
-Their workstations do not cover enough markets to sustain themseves let alone generate enough revenue to set them back ahead of the pack.
-Their single image clusters are not cost effective enough for the scientific comunity and their use for Visualisation, where people would be willing to pay the insane price, isn't large enough.
-Anybody can build UNIX servers.
-Anybody can build MPI clusters.
So I think they are reduced to niche markets which will not cover their cost in R&D which means they will have to license technology or buy components from others (CPUs, bussystems etc.). However they might run out of breath in the time they redesign their gear to take advantage of the new tech, and reduce the production cost.
So my guess is they will be consumed slowly by their competitors - lets only hope some of their tech remains.
Since you asked who Windriver are they bought BSDi's OS operations and along with it aquired the "comercial side" of FreeBSD. It might actually make some sense for them even if it was only to get their hands on BFS (be's journaling filesystem).
Though you are right it is far fetched.
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"Frankly, I myself wish that Microsoft would buy Be, scrap the Dos based crap they currently use, build a compatibility API to allow Be to run older apps, and use BeOS as the next generation of Windows. At least then we might not have such stability problems with Windows releases."
I case you did not notice Microsoft had this chap from DEC develop a Bastard VMS for them which has nothing from DOS left at its core guess what they call it WindowsXP.
I would rather like to see some OSS company snap it up though I guess those don't have any $$$ left from the IPO craze.
Our lawyers have only learned about the arrest in the evening, when all the offices were closed. When I was informed about the arrest, I called the Russian consulate immediately (...) Then the consulate started to prepare an official inquiry to the American authorities. They were dragging their feet until 2pm with the paperwork, when check-in counters have closed and it was already clear that Dmitry wasn't on the flight. We didn't even know where he is. At about 2pm the consulate sent the inquiry, but we didn't get any response that day. So, on Monday we didn't have any information. On Tuesday, when the Moscow office opened, Dmitry's wife called there. She said that she was called and an interpreter told her that her husband is arrested. It was at about 4am Moscow time (or about 3pm on Monday local time). So, they didn't inform the consulate that day.
This paragraph shows that the US still isn't honoring international traeties because they should have informed the Russian consulate right away (if they indicted him which apparently they have) and these violations seem to be a habitual with US law enforcement which is rather worrying for non Americans (like me).
Well who knows if those guys from Compaq will be all to happy to have to work for Intel - at least theInquirer hinted so much.
Besides there are rumors as to Apple buying the desktop PowerPC from Motorola (here) so we might see a CPU which focuses more on speed an less on power consumption from Apple and who knows maybe all those Alpha wizards might take a job with Apple just like their colleags did with AMD.
American superiority complex eh? At least here in Germany the entwork is as advanced if not ahead of the US's networks (quit a lot ISDN connections - at least 1/3 - don't have recent figures).
The drive for wireless phone services is due to the fact that the state monopolies for ground based telephony have been desolved later than in the US (early '90s) and building a mobile network is cheaper than to build a ground based one. --Ulrich
If Apple really feels that they can not compete using Motorolas PowerPC, it is a lot more likely that they will move to the 'Power'(no PC there) line from IBM which is compatible with the PowerPC and 64Bit (Power is to PowerPC like UltraSparc is to Sparc).
And with IBM getting to ship more of them they should get into the pricerange of x86 procs,too. --Ulrich
Though I guess traking down everyone who contibuted code to for example Linux (the kernel) would be a considerable effort, it should certainly be possible. On the other hand a special source license to software only copyrighted to one entity, like the FSF should not be so hard to get as Motorala did for gcc(if my memory doesn't fail me).
...I had taken one of the 2 MicroVAXen we junked 4 years ago and turned it into something like this.
But then they rest in peace, I just hope they don't get piked on by the big VAXen in VAXhaven.
Well I love IBM and all, but they are "just" puting a grat number of power4 on a muli chip module and then put a grat number of those on a board and then put many of these boards on a backplane... Got the point? It is just a really large cluster, nice engeneering but nothing revolutionary.
This chip however is a more like a FPGA (field programmable gate array)then a normal CPU, you just dont reprogramm a few gates but a whole 32-bit ALU. --Ulrich
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Well in that case lets just hope BigBlue bails them out - once again (fast G3)
I don't think we will would even have to go that far 2400dpi is only necessary for good color reproduction most text is probably in the 300dpi-600dpi since digital photocopies get pretty close to the original and those machines aren't much more than a decent scnner and laserprinter. So I'll be happy with a A4 sized screen in that league (probably same size like you said but im to lazy to figure out how large it is in the metric system ;)
Not just that. Good, acid free paper (not the 19th/early 20th stuff) last a long time while this electronic paper probably will loose its content in a lot shorter time. And in the worst case we can't read it because of some copyright protection shit.
There will not be any money in Wintel boxpushing in the near future and the scientific equipment was spun off, its Agilient now.
They might not be fucked but don't expect them to do well for the next 5 years at least.
Well that might well be but the Transrapid has been in development for a long time and construction for the first comercial track will start soon (Shanghai airport -> innercity) and China might well decide that Shanghai -> Peking might be a good for the Olympics.
Well Europe is once again already planing one check this out!
O.K. maybe not supersonic but evacuated none the less. Btw. you dont need superconductors for Maglev at least the German Transrapid does not need it, makes it cheaper, too.
From my experience HPs support is pretty good so I would not worry to much. What worries me more is that HP might chose to pull the plug on OpenVMS and ditch Ultrix(whatever they called it lately) in favor of HP-UX.
Looking over their website I found out that the founder of Sistina used to be an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at the University of Minnesota, and if I recall correctly I also read about it first on some .edu website when I was pissed off about NFS ;). So it looks to me that some people decided yet again to get rich with a codebase payed in parts by tax money (although not mine since I'm German).
This IMHO is bad style although the comunity might be able to persuade them to something like like the duallicensing with Qt.
I really don't know, though my guess is that it has to do a lot with WindRiver's buyout of BSDi because the SMP stuff really only got rolling because of BSDi's involvement with FreeBSD.
Maybe somebody knows how well WindRiver is doing at this moment.
Actually although I do not like SuSE much they have done a lot more for Linux on big iron lately than Redhat or Mandrake (S/390, AS/400) and they also have support for most workstations (Alpha, Sparc, PPC) which can't be said for Redhat let alone Mandrake.
Besides that, Suse did not go IPO and they still made money not so long ago. This means they did not burn OSS enthusiasts money which can not be said about Redhat and Mandrake. I would guess you just hope to get some return on your investment, but I am sure that if Suse goes down the drain Linux stocks will follow right behind.
So think again, its not always those distros you hear the most from which are the most important.
On a sidenote the parentpost is moded a 5 - are all moderators on crack or what?
Well at least the German DOJ is currently looking into the copyprotection schemes since those prevent the consumer to make personal copies to which you have a right in Europe.
Unfortunatly the European Commision can only impose fines or deny companies to buy eachother.
This of course does not mean that Microsoft has nothing to fear from them.
They are not selling hardware they are selling integrated systems - which means a hardware platform with an OS especially made for it. So if they manage to roll their own linux kernel and keep it reasonably up to date this might work. But installing stock SuSE or Redhat on their machines will not cut it.
Well sadly enough i can only agree with you.
I actually do not have any hope left for SGI. Here is why:
-Their workstations do not cover enough markets to sustain themseves let alone generate enough revenue to set them back ahead of the pack.
-Their single image clusters are not cost effective enough for the scientific comunity and their use for Visualisation, where people would be willing to pay the insane price, isn't large enough.
-Anybody can build UNIX servers.
-Anybody can build MPI clusters.
So I think they are reduced to niche markets which will not cover their cost in R&D which means they will have to license technology or buy components from others (CPUs, bussystems etc.). However they might run out of breath in the time they redesign their gear to take advantage of the new tech, and reduce the production cost.
So my guess is they will be consumed slowly by their competitors - lets only hope some of their tech remains.
Since you asked who Windriver are they bought BSDi's OS operations and along with it aquired the "comercial side" of FreeBSD. It might actually make some sense for them even if it was only to get their hands on BFS (be's journaling filesystem).
Though you are right it is far fetched.
I case you did not notice Microsoft had this chap from DEC develop a Bastard VMS for them which has nothing from DOS left at its core guess what they call it WindowsXP.
I would rather like to see some OSS company snap it up though I guess those don't have any $$$ left from the IPO craze.
Thanks you for your work translating it.
As another interesting note.
What do your lawyers say?
Our lawyers have only learned about the arrest in the evening, when all the offices were closed. When I was informed about the arrest, I called the Russian consulate immediately (...) Then the consulate started to prepare an official inquiry to the American authorities. They were dragging their feet until 2pm with the paperwork, when check-in counters have closed and it was already clear that Dmitry wasn't on the flight. We didn't even know where he is. At about 2pm the consulate sent the inquiry, but we didn't get any response that day. So, on Monday we didn't have any information. On Tuesday, when the Moscow office opened, Dmitry's wife called there. She said that she was called and an interpreter told her that her husband is arrested. It was at about 4am Moscow time (or about 3pm on Monday local time). So, they didn't inform the consulate that day.
This paragraph shows that the US still isn't honoring international traeties because they should have informed the Russian consulate right away (if they indicted him which apparently they have) and these violations seem to be a habitual with US law enforcement which is rather worrying for non Americans (like me).
--Ulrich
Well who knows if those guys from Compaq will be all to happy to have to work for Intel - at least theInquirer hinted so much.
Besides there are rumors as to Apple buying the desktop PowerPC from Motorola (here) so we might see a CPU which focuses more on speed an less on power consumption from Apple and who knows maybe all those Alpha wizards might take a job with Apple just like their colleags did with AMD.
--Ulrich
American superiority complex eh? At least here in Germany the entwork is as advanced if not ahead of the US's networks (quit a lot ISDN connections - at least 1/3 - don't have recent figures).
The drive for wireless phone services is due to the fact that the state monopolies for ground based telephony have been desolved later than in the US (early '90s) and building a mobile network is cheaper than to build a ground based one.
--Ulrich
If Apple really feels that they can not compete using Motorolas PowerPC, it is a lot more likely that they will move to the 'Power'(no PC there) line from IBM which is compatible with the PowerPC and 64Bit (Power is to PowerPC like UltraSparc is to Sparc).
And with IBM getting to ship more of them they should get into the pricerange of x86 procs,too.
--Ulrich
Very true!
Though I guess traking down everyone who contibuted code to for example Linux (the kernel) would be a considerable effort, it should certainly be possible. On the other hand a special source license to software only copyrighted to one entity, like the FSF should not be so hard to get as Motorala did for gcc(if my memory doesn't fail me).
--Ulrich
...I had taken one of the 2 MicroVAXen we junked 4 years ago and turned it into something like this.
But then they rest in peace, I just hope they don't get piked on by the big VAXen in VAXhaven.
--Ulrich
Hey who moded this down, OpenBSD is pizzaware, so if that chap wants to send Theo a Pizza (ore any of us of course) we should know what he likes.
--Ulrich
Well I love IBM and all, but they are "just" puting a grat number of power4 on a muli chip module and then put a grat number of those on a board and then put many of these boards on a backplane ...
Got the point? It is just a really large cluster, nice engeneering but nothing revolutionary.
This chip however is a more like a FPGA (field programmable gate array)then a normal CPU, you just dont reprogramm a few gates but a whole 32-bit ALU.
--Ulrich
Actually no because this will be a cascaded setup so you would need 3 Northbridges one would connect the other two, which talk to the CPUs.
--Ulrich