If the GPU can boot the machine, load drivers, and do a few more CPU oriented 'things', then we will finally have a gaming PC that costs as much as a game or two.
Open Source the tiny motherboard needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_hardware/ and soon it would be miniaturized so you could carry it around to the nearest HD monitor. Add GE's holographic memory and you don't need a {DV}{B}D drive.
Heck, the military could use the thing to test out different attack scenarios in real-time during battle, lobbying virtual shells to see which one has the biggest bang, and then shoot the real one that way. With a link to Google Earth, military version, a soldier could see around the corner or over the ridge, in real-time.
Scatter a few in the mountains of Afghanistan with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare loaded, and the Taliban will think they have tapped into our network and can actually see what our forces are doing.
It may finally help answer the question, "Where in the world is BL?", unless the soldier thought the fire button also fired the real shell.
If the anti-trust rulebook is dusted and opened, the deal may fall apart or be watered down because of the intricacies involved.
Oracle and Sun are not completely isolated from the rest of the world. IBM is likely to have patents that can be leveraged to throw a wrench in the works. They are not out of the picture, unless their coterie of lawyers is of the 'wimpy' kind likely to be waterboarded into submission.
Heck, Slashdot won't let me use all caps. It says "Don't use so many caps it's like yelling." I will never be understood - without caps. What did I say?
Absolutely, and this is the real reason Comic Sans raises so much dust - because it reveals your vehement utterances whereas Windings does not unless you use certain characters from it.
I used to be beaten awake at 4am from my bed at the bottom of a lake by my CIO father who got me to work at 4:01am using a manual punch card machine to hammer out assembler with my arms tied behind my back while being whipped with CAT5 cable with a daily run to the PC in the local library to be whipped again if there was so much as 1 bug in the code which had to be production ready and implemented at 4:02am before the next assignment at 4:03am working non-stop until being allowed to sleep again at 3:59am the following morning after a meal consisting of a shrubbery.
Someone who really knows how to game Technology needs to be kept very very happy if he or she is not to turn on you.
During the Cold War certain 'Special Forces' were used to entice secrets from many using torture free and very 'personal' interrogation techniques in undisclosed hotel rooms. No amount of technology can stop that unless the hacker has a smart phone implanted to record and transmit everything.
This opens the question of whether there need to be several such persons in separate undisclosed locations, that are tasked with monitoring each of the others.
julesh may well be right, wrong, or somewhere to the middle, left, or right of that. Civility helps others accept a point of view. My old-timer would tell me to, "wash your mouth out son".
...The reality is that there are a great number of ways to hone-in on the language or framework choice for a web application. ...the proponents of Java, PHP and Ruby are lighting the Internet aflame in defense of their platform of choice and at the same time nay-saying their fellow players. While very entertaining and sometimes educational to follow, not much is going to be gained from this bickering. ...The beauty of what we have today is that there ARE a great many choices out there, much more-so than even a few years ago.
Check out this presentation instead of the many spurious articles on the Internet and make the choice best suited for the application. There is no outright "king of the hill" any more. No sense in using Java when PHP is better and vice-versa.
While others flame, those who really know technology create the Java and PHP systems the flamers cannot.
Both Java and PHP are interpreted languages because this is how you create a cross-platform language.
Each gets compiled to bytecode which gets executed in a OS specific VM.
Jave bytecode is compiled manually. PHP bytecode is compiled automatically using an encoder. In both cases code is compiled once and reused.
We chose PHP for our website because of it's efficiency in terms of development (e.g. no class generation step for programmers) and execution overhead. You don't need as much memory or cpu to run a typical PHP server.
Frankly, most websites do not need an app server.
Wikipedia uses PHP, not Java. It is not a 'simple' website that you say PHP is suited for.
PHP is the most popular language on the planet for a good reason - transaction rate.
If code is written in any language such that the app cannot handle more than 12 transactions per second, it's time to find another profession instead of blaming the language.
Depending on the application, PHP can handle several hundred transactions per second, on *one* machine.
It is common knowledge that Java requires far more resources to achieve a typical transaction rate, than PHP.
Don't forget the VP (Exec, Senior, Junior, Associate) and Director layers!
The management bunch would call what you say heresy because it reduces or eliminates the need for their services.
Imagine that, a self-directed team reporting directly to the CTO. This is how OSS projects get run, by a small, subject-matter-expert team leading a large distributed one that does other things than work on COBOL (heh!) all the time.
Land line went years ago. Fiber will be next together with the 1Gbps wired LAN and everything hanging off it - especially the not so green power adapters, quaint WAPs, Switches, and Routers.
Imagine no more ISPs. Netflix can stop throttling. Computers only need RAM and boot from the cloud.
Will my 4G Google phone need a small power station or will a standard adapter do?
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Proof that by today's definition, both Ronald Reagan and George Bush Senior are Liberals?
Which leads to the question, what is a Liberal?
These are interesting times indeed.
If the GPU can boot the machine, load drivers, and do a few more CPU oriented 'things', then we will finally have a gaming PC that costs as much as a game or two.
Open Source the tiny motherboard needed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_hardware/ and soon it would be miniaturized so you could carry it around to the nearest HD monitor. Add GE's holographic memory and you don't need a {DV}{B}D drive.
Heck, the military could use the thing to test out different attack scenarios in real-time during battle, lobbying virtual shells to see which one has the biggest bang, and then shoot the real one that way. With a link to Google Earth, military version, a soldier could see around the corner or over the ridge, in real-time.
Scatter a few in the mountains of Afghanistan with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare loaded, and the Taliban will think they have tapped into our network and can actually see what our forces are doing.
It may finally help answer the question, "Where in the world is BL?", unless the soldier thought the fire button also fired the real shell.
If the anti-trust rulebook is dusted and opened, the deal may fall apart or be watered down because of the intricacies involved.
Oracle and Sun are not completely isolated from the rest of the world. IBM is likely to have patents that can be leveraged to throw a wrench in the works. They are not out of the picture, unless their coterie of lawyers is of the 'wimpy' kind likely to be waterboarded into submission.
Slashdot considers +5 the same as infinity. Therefore it cannot be exceeded.
Heck, Slashdot won't let me use all caps. It says "Don't use so many caps it's like yelling." I will never be understood - without caps. What did I say?
Absolutely, and this is the real reason Comic Sans raises so much dust - because it reveals your vehement utterances whereas Windings does not unless you use certain characters from it.
Heh - a British 'bog' is an American 'can' is an Indian 'tati'.
I used to be beaten awake at 4am from my bed at the bottom of a lake by my CIO father who got me to work at 4:01am using a manual punch card machine to hammer out assembler with my arms tied behind my back while being whipped with CAT5 cable with a daily run to the PC in the local library to be whipped again if there was so much as 1 bug in the code which had to be production ready and implemented at 4:02am before the next assignment at 4:03am working non-stop until being allowed to sleep again at 3:59am the following morning after a meal consisting of a shrubbery.
Someone who really knows how to game Technology needs to be kept very very happy if he or she is not to turn on you.
During the Cold War certain 'Special Forces' were used to entice secrets from many using torture free and very 'personal' interrogation techniques in undisclosed hotel rooms. No amount of technology can stop that unless the hacker has a smart phone implanted to record and transmit everything.
This opens the question of whether there need to be several such persons in separate undisclosed locations, that are tasked with monitoring each of the others.
Add memory. Add a repeat button. Add a {check}book for an account that nowadays actually has money in it.
This is bullshit
julesh may well be right, wrong, or somewhere to the middle, left, or right of that. Civility helps others accept a point of view. My old-timer would tell me to, "wash your mouth out son".
The benchmark alluded to by julesh at (http://www.mindcraft.com/perfreports/nas/nas40-audit.html is for the Netscape Application Server. Nothing about PHP and Java there.
Here is a objective article referring to a presentation given by no less than a Director of Web Technologies at Sun, the Java bods. There is no bias for Java or PHP:
http://www.cmswire.com/cms/industry-news/php-vs-java-vs-ruby-000887.php/
Check out this presentation instead of the many spurious articles on the Internet and make the choice best suited for the application. There is no outright "king of the hill" any more. No sense in using Java when PHP is better and vice-versa.
While others flame, those who really know technology create the Java and PHP systems the flamers cannot.
Both Java and PHP are interpreted languages because this is how you create a cross-platform language.
Each gets compiled to bytecode which gets executed in a OS specific VM.
Jave bytecode is compiled manually. PHP bytecode is compiled automatically using an encoder. In both cases code is compiled once and reused.
We chose PHP for our website because of it's efficiency in terms of development (e.g. no class generation step for programmers) and execution overhead. You don't need as much memory or cpu to run a typical PHP server.
Frankly, most websites do not need an app server. Wikipedia uses PHP, not Java. It is not a 'simple' website that you say PHP is suited for.
PHP is the most popular language on the planet for a good reason - transaction rate.
If code is written in any language such that the app cannot handle more than 12 transactions per second, it's time to find another profession instead of blaming the language.
Depending on the application, PHP can handle several hundred transactions per second, on *one* machine. It is common knowledge that Java requires far more resources to achieve a typical transaction rate, than PHP.
Well, I'll be - the first LAMPCJ Stack - make it too big to fail.
For all of you fellow architect bods out there, this is how you do it:
PHP - California, Texas and France
C++ - New Jersey and Tibet
Java - California, India, and Somalia
Now, what does this variable name in Somali represent?
what the effects will be then, we don't know I guess
Another cruise ship or two making a beeline for one of the bergs as they tend to do about twice a year nowadays.
I thought we were already in hell trying to get to heaven.
Now I am confused. Where the hell are we?
Hope he doesn't take a cruise ship to work.
They tend to go straight for the bergs down there.
Don't forget the VP (Exec, Senior, Junior, Associate) and Director layers!
The management bunch would call what you say heresy because it reduces or eliminates the need for their services.
Imagine that, a self-directed team reporting directly to the CTO. This is how OSS projects get run, by a small, subject-matter-expert team leading a large distributed one that does other things than work on COBOL (heh!) all the time.
General, we found them commies in the Aussie government. Permission requested to wash them on the board.
300,000 people lost their jobs in March and immediately canceled their Internet connection with service continuing through March 31.
Traffic increased 30% at libraries and Internet cafes.
The law had no effect.
OK, I finally got it. You are talking about the weather.
Now I have to learn Khoisan, Chinese, Arabic, and Swahili on top of Assembler, PL/1, COBOL, C, C++, Java, PHP, and Texan. When will it end?
Got to be something in there which forces you to buy something from Microsoft, sooner or later.
I'll stay with 'true' Open Source, the kind that really can run everywhere.
I am waiting for Google to cover Afghanistan and Northern Pakistan. It won't be a few upset villagers taking a stand.
Land line went years ago. Fiber will be next together with the 1Gbps wired LAN and everything hanging off it - especially the not so green power adapters, quaint WAPs, Switches, and Routers.
Imagine no more ISPs. Netflix can stop throttling. Computers only need RAM and boot from the cloud.
Will my 4G Google phone need a small power station or will a standard adapter do?