I'm surprised that you missed that Shadowrun is more a reflection of earlier scifi (especially Gibson's prescient Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, et cetera) than anything new. Yes, it attempts to integrate fantasy and scifi, but the socio-economic stuff is highly derivative of previous scifi.
So, ZDNet is under the impression that the PHBs are going to set up the machines and won't want to install patches? Get real! I have and NT server and several Linux servers. I can't install SP5 on my NT box because it's known to break the behavior of Oracle 7.3.2. And yet, I apparently need those patches to fix bugs in NT and introduced in SP1-4. Nevermind that MS comes out with plenty of patches in the intervals between SPs. I'd hazard a guess that there are more than 21, just in the security area alone. In the real world, I prefer having to apply patches on a frequent basis than waiting (and waiting... and waiting) for MS to come out with a patch (when they admit it's a problem) and hoping in the meantime that someone doesn't discover my system.
Well, I actually use CF on a daily basis (running with Netscape Enterprise on NT) against a variety of datasources (everything from Access to Oracle 7.3). CF is as flexible as PHP and in some ways a lot easier to use. Getting records from a query (be it LDAP or database) is painfully easy. It's been my experience with PHP so far that there are about 4 steps to querying a database and printing the results.
Granted, my depth of experience with PHP is about 2 weeks;-), but there are things that can be done in PHP that currently can't be done with CF. IMP (www.horde.org), for instance, isn't possible with CF because there's no imap functionality. Granted, it could be cobbled together with a few custom tags, but I'm sure performance wouldn't be anywhere near PHP.
Other comparisons: CF is tag based, where PHP is script based. What's the diff? It's a lot easier to mix CF and HTML than it is with PHP (at least in my short experience). Many, many functions are build right into PHP. Not nearly as many are built into CF, but there are scads of CF custom tags out there (for which the source is usually available).
Instead of a religious comparison, look at the features, platform, and other factors and decide which is best suited to your application. While I use CF all the time (and love it), I'm about to embark on writing a "portal" in PHP because the platform it runs on (Linux/Apache) is better suited to my app and many of the tools I want are built into PHP3 and PHP4. I could do it in CF and I'm sure it'd be functional, but I plan to aggressively use the class functionality built into PHP...
Yeah, a perusal of the patent clearly indicates that Mr. Janky has not only patented digital audio reproduction devices, but personal computers in general, the internet, hard disks, transmission of ones and zeroes, algorithms, energy, mass, and uh.... well, everything else.
Multiplex data transfer will help, esp if transfers are more than one byte at a time, as they tend to be in machines larger than 8-bit. Many transfers are going to range from two byte to eight bytes at a time, even in random access.
Unless I totally missed the point and 3/4 of the article is exposition and education, I'm not impressed w/ CPUReview's take on the tech.
There are a few interesting problems with the article but I think it's clear that the writer has no real clue about chip design or hardware in general. For instance, his estimation of the number of pins required to support address/data is off. Back in the bad old days of 8-bit 40-pin (and 16-bit 40-pin) devices, address and data lines were available on the same pins. The same can be done for i/o ports. The downside is that the speed of the HotRail chip would need to outstrip processor speed by 2. But the docs do mention up to a 1.6 ghz bus.
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I'm surprised that you missed that Shadowrun is more a reflection of earlier scifi (especially Gibson's prescient Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, et cetera) than anything new. Yes, it attempts to integrate fantasy and scifi, but the socio-economic stuff is highly derivative of previous scifi.
What's next? Oxygen?
Uh yeah, and in a related note:
Microsoft Research Innovates Life....
Uh, yeah this was already covered in an article in the New York Times a few months back.
So, ZDNet is under the impression that the PHBs are going to set up the machines and won't want to install patches? Get real! I have and NT server and several Linux servers. I can't install SP5 on my NT box because it's known to break the behavior of Oracle 7.3.2. And yet, I apparently need those patches to fix bugs in NT and introduced in SP1-4. Nevermind that MS comes out with plenty of patches in the intervals between SPs. I'd hazard a guess that there are more than 21, just in the security area alone. In the real world, I prefer having to apply patches on a frequent basis than waiting (and waiting... and waiting) for MS to come out with a patch (when they admit it's a problem) and hoping in the meantime that someone doesn't discover my system.
Well, I actually use CF on a daily basis (running with Netscape Enterprise on NT) against a variety of datasources (everything from Access to Oracle 7.3). CF is as flexible as PHP and in some ways a lot easier to use. Getting records from a query (be it LDAP or database) is painfully easy. It's been my experience with PHP so far that there are about 4 steps to querying a database and printing the results.
;-), but there are things that can be done in PHP that currently can't be done with CF. IMP (www.horde.org), for instance, isn't possible with CF because there's no imap functionality. Granted, it could be cobbled together with a few custom tags, but I'm sure performance wouldn't be anywhere near PHP.
Granted, my depth of experience with PHP is about 2 weeks
Other comparisons:
CF is tag based, where PHP is script based. What's the diff? It's a lot easier to mix CF and HTML than it is with PHP (at least in my short experience).
Many, many functions are build right into PHP. Not nearly as many are built into CF, but there are scads of CF custom tags out there (for which the source is usually available).
Instead of a religious comparison, look at the features, platform, and other factors and decide which is best suited to your application. While I use CF all the time (and love it), I'm about to embark on writing a "portal" in PHP because the platform it runs on (Linux/Apache) is better suited to my app and many of the tools I want are built into PHP3 and PHP4. I could do it in CF and I'm sure it'd be functional, but I plan to aggressively use the class functionality built into PHP...
This stuff was also well known after WW2. There's numbers station in Jean Cocteau's "Orphee".
MP3 audio files are a subset of the MP3 av spec.
Yeah, a perusal of the patent clearly indicates that Mr. Janky has not only patented digital audio reproduction devices, but personal computers in general, the internet, hard disks, transmission of ones and zeroes, algorithms, energy, mass, and uh.... well, everything else.
Multiplex data transfer will help, esp if transfers are more than one byte at a time, as they tend to be in machines larger than 8-bit. Many transfers are going to range from two byte to eight bytes at a time, even in random access.
There are a few interesting problems with the article but I think it's clear that the writer has no real clue about chip design or hardware in general. For instance, his estimation of the number of pins required to support address/data is off. Back in the bad old days of 8-bit 40-pin (and 16-bit 40-pin) devices, address and data lines were available on the same pins. The same can be done for i/o ports. The downside is that the speed of the HotRail chip would need to outstrip processor speed by 2. But the docs do mention up to a 1.6 ghz bus.