You buy a copy of Office, and a CPU to run it on. If you need more CPU power, it will distribute some of the load to other Cells in your vicinity (how many, depends on which licence you bought). When the hardware becomes too slow, you buy a copy of the software that comes with a faster chip - or an additional copy that allows you to use more of your existing Cells. When the new version comes out you simply buy that and throw the old one away.
Ermmm. Yech.
This whole thing with distributing load to other cells... Isn't the latency going to be a factor in anything except batch processing?
In laboratory tests, the Cell chip reached a top "clock speed" of 4GHz, which means it can perform more than four billion calculations per second. By comparison, the fastest Intel Pentium chip is currently capable of 3.8GHz.
This difference in basic speed is not large but Richard Doherty, director of the computer industry analysts Envisioneering, in San Francisco, says Cell's modular architecture will give it a more substantial edge for many applications.
"At first blush I think it's safe to say that it will be 10 to 20 times faster than the fastest graphics cards and processors," Doherty told New Scientist. "We think it is going to revolutionise computer science for entertainment and business."
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ibm generates about 20B a quarter. this is revenue not profit. (note i realise all 20B is not linux, just an example of a huge amount of money going through a company who happens to promote and use linux)
Most people in the workplace couldn't care less how their computer works. Sure they may want a new LCD but their aren't very many businesses where the look of the PC actually matters and most managers would rather save a few $$$.
Also, from my experiences I have a lot of trouble telling the difference in speed between local and remote X sessions. Maybe you have had bad experiences but it's not all like that!
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Ermmm. Yech.
This whole thing with distributing load to other cells... Isn't the latency going to be a factor in anything except batch processing?
You are right. Check out this article
In laboratory tests, the Cell chip reached a top "clock speed" of 4GHz, which means it can perform more than four billion calculations per second. By comparison, the fastest Intel Pentium chip is currently capable of 3.8GHz.
This difference in basic speed is not large but Richard Doherty, director of the computer industry analysts Envisioneering, in San Francisco, says Cell's modular architecture will give it a more substantial edge for many applications.
"At first blush I think it's safe to say that it will be 10 to 20 times faster than the fastest graphics cards and processors," Doherty told New Scientist. "We think it is going to revolutionise computer science for entertainment and business."
problem being with these are the ones with hardware advertising on them suggesting lowest price on hardware and free shipping!
Perfect opportunity to hire 50 cent to promote it:
G-g-g-unix
*cough*
found running about on the net:
Well that might explain the We've only just begun
Well side effects include task obssesivness so just look for the guys filling out extra copeise of the exam.
don't be silly.
everyone knows games are just for anti-social nerds.
Course I did or I wouldn't ask.
:P
Hrmm - you have a link in the first message, shouldn't you then be asking your customers where the cheque is?
you did read that GPL thingy that you pasted into the top of your code right?!
why not?
ibm generates about 20B a quarter. this is revenue not profit. (note i realise all 20B is not linux, just an example of a huge amount of money going through a company who happens to promote and use linux)
sensors in the wrists to give people objects seems a bit like cheeting.
if they want to make it seem more 'human' then get it to track the person it's interacting withs face with its head. that would up the realism heaps.
A little googling reveals some sites more worthy of attack than the suicide girls site...
http://desktop.google.com/support/bin/request.py
Look! They have a specific category on their feedback page for asking to Firefox support.
Why not jump on and ask them to hurry up and support it. They aren't psychic (or maybe they are. gooogle is pretty damn good).
ah but 11b's reach is measured in feet and wimax is measured in kilometers :)
http://www.google.com/press/zeitgeist.html You can definatly see Mozilla/Netscape is beggining to make a increase but it's a very small one still...
It is the Microsoft timeline so in terms of it being the first for Microsoft they are correct. However it isn't very clear.
Interesting. I'd mod you up but it's already at 5.
Instead I'll ask a question:
Why doesn't OOo load super fast under *nix OS then? It still takes a long time to load!
You did read the isp ad at the top right? ;)
I disagree
Most people in the workplace couldn't care less how their computer works. Sure they may want a new LCD but their aren't very many businesses where the look of the PC actually matters and most managers would rather save a few $$$.
Also, from my experiences I have a lot of trouble telling the difference in speed between local and remote X sessions. Maybe you have had bad experiences but it's not all like that!
I agree but I find you almost get too much into 'the zone'.
:P
Then the next day when you look at your work you wonder what the hell you were thinking and how the hell it works
But everyone knows you pay for writing in Java with your soul!
Then the MPAA will claim Open Sourcing like that the movie industry will kill 'real' movies
Prior art tho.
If someone did it before you then that's a no-go. IANAL but it sounds like Kodak might have done this before anyone else.
but imagine a beowulf cluster of those suckers!