the cpu part i can accept, but unless the VM is something very special would not the system inside it balk at suddenly gaining a couple of gigs of ram?
I suspect Motorola is the way to go for the time being. What happens if you get to work one day and find you forgot to migrate your desktop? Connect home and migrate over the net?
yep, been thinking that this is why Intel is taking their sweet time demoing Moblin/Meego without claiming when products will show up on market. Gives Microsoft a reason to slim down and expand the reach of Windows. Funny tho that MS should start talking about Windows on ARM. A war of words between old lovers?
Yep, RAM (and the address range to make full use of it) seems more a issue these days then CPU. When things choke it is in dealing with HD content and similar large data amounts, not your home spreadsheet or book critique.
If the compiler used can make use of the instruction set in the first place. And hell, its been long since x86 designs processed the x86 instruction set directly. These days it gets translated into "micro-ops" that behave pretty much like the ARM instruction set.
Basically, the x86 instruction set is a holdover from earlier times, where each clock cycle where slow. Back then it was more beneficial to have a group of transistors that handled a specialized piece of math in a single cycle then use the generics to spell it out in several. End result was a instruction set with a long list of special case instructions, easy to make use of as one was writing assembly anyways.
But as cycles became faster, and programming became more abstracted from the hardware, the benefits fades. I wonder how much x86 binary in use today is still compiled to use something like the 386 rather then more recent stuff.
HDMI out takes care of the screen as needed, bluetooth for input. Mass storage may be the sticking point, unless your ok with cloud storage.
now if your talking about sitting down on a random park bench with a phone in pocket and accessing those things, dream on. Even a laptop can not give you that unless your willing to risk back injury.
They start mandating that any computer that can read or write to a arbitrary area of ram or storage is a security tool, only to be sold to certified professionals. The rest will be sold something even more strictly controlled then the iOS devices, and if found jailbroken will be prosecuted as if trafficking in military grade hardware.
The corporations will be happy, the big brother government will be happy, the rest "fuck em".
To some degree, this is what Morotola is gunning for with Atrix.
When docked at either the desktop or laptop dock, the android ui takes second stage to a desktop ui. Android is still accessible via a window, and the desktop will remember its state on undock.
Not sure if they included openoffice or similar tho.
It seems that HP is backpedaling a bit (could there have been a angry call from Redmond?), and now it seems that they will either be using webos as a quickboot system or provide some kind of touchstone integrating with windows rather then go whole hog webos as primary desktop.
Also, even if done IRL rather then staged like on the video, the kids are likely to shrug and forget about it unless they happen to be in the right age range to be developing sexually.
Sadly, when Meego got started half its basis (Maemo) was no joke. Nokia fumbled that one badly (first by announcing a new Maemo alongside the N900, then buying Qt and saying all future Maemo would use that rather then GTK, then announcing the partnership with Intel by combining Moblin and Maemo into Meego).
As for the longevity of Symbian, hard to tell. S^3 is so far only found on one device, and have gotten little time to mature. S^4 seems to have gotten nowhere as every Symbian fundation member pulled out favoring Android (tho Samsung also fired up their BADA project).
The really crazy thing is that Nokia went WP7 almost to the day that we learned that "Android" (or more specifically the Dalvik VM) could run on top of Meego.
I was not commenting that part, only the contrasting of real life 9/11 vs fictional "squid bomb", and how the former "failed" to unite.
The basic problem is that 9/11 was an attack on a sub-set of humanity rather then humanity as a whole. As such, it just united that subset rather then the whole.
Note the bit about murphy, that could include backups failing on use (iirc, there are corporations and government institutions that have performed backups for decades but never tested those backups for usability once they are needed).
Its been that way largely since WW2 (notice the hippies rebelling socially against the authoritarian 50s/60s norms).
And not Just USA. The factory like educational system is failing in the "industrial" world as a whole. Perhaps because one have moved from hand industry to thought industry, as well as having a marketing system that more and more rely on the message of "self actualization". Hell, i find it of endless amusement that a media world that have been selling the message of the rebel for decades still can not grasp why people are, well, rebelling against them.
The attack did not unite because it was an attack by humans on other humans. It did however unite USA "for a time".
That is really the thing with "the squid", it was made to look outside of humanity, outside of earth.
Consider this, a herd of cattle may squabble over mating and food sources. but when a pack of predators show up, they all form up to defend their young. Now replace that herd with the people of any nation, and the predators with same of another nation. Now that it another step further and make the herd into humanity, and the predators into martians or whatever.
This is a historically repeating pattern, and why it politically works so damn well.
I think the problem is mostly one of storage and processing capacity. Iirc, the largest computing clusters right now may rival a rat for processing power. Thing is that a CPU is a 2D air cooled design. A brain is a 3D, liquid cooled design. And it combines storage with processing thanks to neurons changing depending on IO. Closest we got is memristors, and those are a very recent development (tho i guess a self-modifying FPGA may also match requirements).
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the cpu part i can accept, but unless the VM is something very special would not the system inside it balk at suddenly gaining a couple of gigs of ram?
Have we not come full circle then?
I suspect Motorola is the way to go for the time being. What happens if you get to work one day and find you forgot to migrate your desktop? Connect home and migrate over the net?
yep, been thinking that this is why Intel is taking their sweet time demoing Moblin/Meego without claiming when products will show up on market. Gives Microsoft a reason to slim down and expand the reach of Windows. Funny tho that MS should start talking about Windows on ARM. A war of words between old lovers?
Funny thing is, more and more "high end" games are console ports that still make use of 5+ year old hardware.
As for keyboards, look up bluetooth HID. Even the iphone can make use of a external keyboard these days.
Yep, RAM (and the address range to make full use of it) seems more a issue these days then CPU. When things choke it is in dealing with HD content and similar large data amounts, not your home spreadsheet or book critique.
If the compiler used can make use of the instruction set in the first place. And hell, its been long since x86 designs processed the x86 instruction set directly. These days it gets translated into "micro-ops" that behave pretty much like the ARM instruction set.
Basically, the x86 instruction set is a holdover from earlier times, where each clock cycle where slow. Back then it was more beneficial to have a group of transistors that handled a specialized piece of math in a single cycle then use the generics to spell it out in several. End result was a instruction set with a long list of special case instructions, easy to make use of as one was writing assembly anyways.
But as cycles became faster, and programming became more abstracted from the hardware, the benefits fades. I wonder how much x86 binary in use today is still compiled to use something like the 386 rather then more recent stuff.
HDMI out takes care of the screen as needed, bluetooth for input. Mass storage may be the sticking point, unless your ok with cloud storage.
now if your talking about sitting down on a random park bench with a phone in pocket and accessing those things, dream on. Even a laptop can not give you that unless your willing to risk back injury.
They start mandating that any computer that can read or write to a arbitrary area of ram or storage is a security tool, only to be sold to certified professionals. The rest will be sold something even more strictly controlled then the iOS devices, and if found jailbroken will be prosecuted as if trafficking in military grade hardware.
The corporations will be happy, the big brother government will be happy, the rest "fuck em".
To some degree, this is what Morotola is gunning for with Atrix.
When docked at either the desktop or laptop dock, the android ui takes second stage to a desktop ui. Android is still accessible via a window, and the desktop will remember its state on undock.
Not sure if they included openoffice or similar tho.
It seems that HP is backpedaling a bit (could there have been a angry call from Redmond?), and now it seems that they will either be using webos as a quickboot system or provide some kind of touchstone integrating with windows rather then go whole hog webos as primary desktop.
Also, even if done IRL rather then staged like on the video, the kids are likely to shrug and forget about it unless they happen to be in the right age range to be developing sexually.
this is a damn witchhunt...
And if one manage, one may well start to wonder about ones own sexuality.
Hell, how about adding a layer of skin with a kevlar weave or something similar.
could be a gyro involved, that keep it stationary unless other input is given.
Sadly, when Meego got started half its basis (Maemo) was no joke. Nokia fumbled that one badly (first by announcing a new Maemo alongside the N900, then buying Qt and saying all future Maemo would use that rather then GTK, then announcing the partnership with Intel by combining Moblin and Maemo into Meego).
As for the longevity of Symbian, hard to tell. S^3 is so far only found on one device, and have gotten little time to mature. S^4 seems to have gotten nowhere as every Symbian fundation member pulled out favoring Android (tho Samsung also fired up their BADA project).
The really crazy thing is that Nokia went WP7 almost to the day that we learned that "Android" (or more specifically the Dalvik VM) could run on top of Meego.
We do indeed live in interesting times...
I was not commenting that part, only the contrasting of real life 9/11 vs fictional "squid bomb", and how the former "failed" to unite.
The basic problem is that 9/11 was an attack on a sub-set of humanity rather then humanity as a whole. As such, it just united that subset rather then the whole.
Their problem is that the stock market, and the tech press, seems to see USA as the place to observe the future of mobile tech happening...
If one ignore Nokia's inability to get traction in the US market, they where doing fine.
I wonder, should we redefine "rubber hose cryptography" to "wrench cryptography"?
Note the bit about murphy, that could include backups failing on use (iirc, there are corporations and government institutions that have performed backups for decades but never tested those backups for usability once they are needed).
Its been that way largely since WW2 (notice the hippies rebelling socially against the authoritarian 50s/60s norms).
And not Just USA. The factory like educational system is failing in the "industrial" world as a whole. Perhaps because one have moved from hand industry to thought industry, as well as having a marketing system that more and more rely on the message of "self actualization". Hell, i find it of endless amusement that a media world that have been selling the message of the rebel for decades still can not grasp why people are, well, rebelling against them.
The attack did not unite because it was an attack by humans on other humans. It did however unite USA "for a time".
That is really the thing with "the squid", it was made to look outside of humanity, outside of earth.
Consider this, a herd of cattle may squabble over mating and food sources. but when a pack of predators show up, they all form up to defend their young. Now replace that herd with the people of any nation, and the predators with same of another nation. Now that it another step further and make the herd into humanity, and the predators into martians or whatever.
This is a historically repeating pattern, and why it politically works so damn well.
I think the problem is mostly one of storage and processing capacity. Iirc, the largest computing clusters right now may rival a rat for processing power. Thing is that a CPU is a 2D air cooled design. A brain is a 3D, liquid cooled design. And it combines storage with processing thanks to neurons changing depending on IO. Closest we got is memristors, and those are a very recent development (tho i guess a self-modifying FPGA may also match requirements).
What will be interesting is when Watson balks at a question, but writes its own code rather then expect some programmer to do so.
At that point, one may be able to point it at something fully unrelated to jeopardy and expect it to "reason" its way to understanding of the topic.
"Human intelligence is not computation"
You sure about that? It may not be digital, but it damn sure do "compute" (with some very old biases more often then not).