First for the Apple ][ when it was done with
ill-formatted disks, then for CP/M and
DOS via dongles, and finally for DVDs
with frivolously bad software.
--dave
Yes, the T2 was an UltraSPARC IIi chip, the
same as in my laptop, multiplied N ways. The
Intel sounds more like something to hang
SIMD processors on.
I'm not sure what I'd use a SIMD
attached processor for in normal office use:
if finding a multi-instance or multi-threaded program is hard for a PC, imaging how
hard it is to find vector programs!
Off-topic: my IIi with
a slow 3600 RPM disk loads full Mozilla
in less than 10 seconds, and the T5 is
faster than it is.
This was a striking use of matrix mathematics
back when I was in university in the '80s.
The prof took our ramking sheets and
created a influencer-influencee matrix and
a measure of the connectedness of the group.
Mind you, he had to puch the data on cards
and show us the results the next day, but
the algorithm he used was old hat even in thsoe days.
The tax is supposed to go to the artist,
through the existing system for paying
for playing the songs, so the music publishers
who haven't tied up their artists in
contracts don't get a penny. The big music
publishers *loudly* denegrate this approach,
and would like a DMCA instead.
I'm a minor author, and the reason I'm a successful
one is that my book was available
for download. Anyone who liked it and wanted
a printed copy ordered it from my publisher,
who was the only person authorized to print
it as a book, on thin enough paper to carry
around without a knapsack.
This and other similar laws threaten my
ability to make it available on-line,
and therefor cut of my publisher and
I off from this known successful approach.
Exactly the opposite of what a copyright law should do!
Us Canajans just had a rule that contact
mssages were sent at FLASH priority in
the clear... as the enemy who is currently
shooting at you knows where he is, it is
pretty easy for him to guess where you are.
Come to think of it, that allows a known-plaintxt attack on BATCO (;-))
Er, I'd instead reccomend the same "white listed"
software as the cisco chap does.
In actual practice, I use
an operating system and applications
from people who make their source available
to me and everyone else to audit. That's
my white list!
I read the Globe and Mail, which could by no
means ever be considered far-left, and
the first I saw of it was this discussion
on Slashdot.
Wikipedia claims that this charge had first
been laid in Ontario, but since the Ontario Human Rights Code specifically prohibits the Commission from "interfer[ing] with the freedom of expression of opinion", it failed ignominiously. It was
then re-attempted in BC, in the hope of not
being immediately thrown out of court.
Since on the face of it he's innocent,
I suspect he's playing this up to the
hilt to get more attention for his book.
These guys wrote some of the easiest to understand
books I've ever seen. I have the old dead-tree
versions of Basic Electronics and Basic Electricity,
but these days you can get PDFs of them from
Wiley
It's actually useful to break the response time out into three parts:
1) Round-trip time, the latency from the network
2) Transfer time, the time from receiving the
first byte of the page to the time the last byte arrives. This varies greatly with page size, and is the time you use to do KB/S calculations as well.
3) Latency proper, the time between sending the request and receiving the first byte of the page.
This is the time that grows during an overload, and the one that capacity planners use to do queuing models to see how much the server will slow down by under an overload.
A good review and counter-argument is available
at the "codinghorror" blog where Jeff Atwood
points out the codinghorror blogYahoo's Problems Are Not Your Problems
Huh? Judge Kimball might rule that SCO ripped off Sun, but not that Sun didn't buy licences from Bell back when they together wrote Solaris 2 (Solaris 1 was BSD, you may remember, for which you still had to buy a Bell 32V license)
Andi Kleen promptly provided prior art:
The basic patching idea is old and has been used many times, long
predating kexec. e.g. it's a common way to implement incremental linkers
too.
You could argue that if Java goes GPL, gcj has been successful even if it suddenly becomes irrelevant.
Even better, the two compilers can be compared, the better ideas identified and the final compilers can get better. Think of the Multics Emacs in
lisp and RMC's evenual rewrite of the TECO emacs
in lisp.
Whereas I see it as merely part of the l
ong-drawn-out fight to keep Microsoft from
doing an embrace, extend and extinguish on them.
You may remember that the MS java compiler
gained some hidden MS-only extensions. That led
to a large court case which MS lost, and
a large payment to Sun for misusing the
trademark.
Now that MS Java, renamed C#, is fully
incompatible with real Java, there's no longer
a reason to protect the trademark.
No, Anonymous just has an axe to grind. MySQL is releasing some stuff in the for-pay codebase
first. And I note a commentator below says
the backup is in the GPL codebase after all...
rbrander wrote: Except for the one valid complaint that the government had helped this company along with a lot of support, I don't think anybody's even pretending that this is a justified intervention in the free market.
It's far more likely they're concerned with what the said they were concerned about, the Radarsat-2. The Globe and Mail business section said today In mid-March, the tide turned, and questions about whether U.S. security laws would give that country control of satellite data about Canada's Far North raised the spectre it might be used against Canada's contested claims in the Arctic. That image conflicted with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's high-profile vow to protect Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic, and made it a key political plank.
It makes little sense to sell your only far-north tracking satelite to a country that you're arguing with about far north sovereignty. Espcially after paying real money to the Russians to put it up!
If he's saying that his multicore processors are
going to be hard to program, then self-interest
suggests he be very very quiet (;-))
Seriously, though, adding what used to be a video
board to the CPU doesn't change the programming model.
I suspect he's more interested in debating future
issues with more tightly coupled processors.
Slashdot Mirror
They provide forwarding, IMAP and webmail, so I can use it even when I'm at customers where they block outsiders' email.
And I get way less spam, which was my orgional reason for using them.
--dave
First for the Apple ][ when it was done with ill-formatted disks, then for CP/M and DOS via dongles, and finally for DVDs with frivolously bad software. --dave
Yes, the T2 was an UltraSPARC IIi chip, the same as in my laptop, multiplied N ways. The Intel sounds more like something to hang SIMD processors on.
I'm not sure what I'd use a SIMD attached processor for in normal office use: if finding a multi-instance or multi-threaded program is hard for a PC, imaging how hard it is to find vector programs!
Off-topic: my IIi with a slow 3600 RPM disk loads full Mozilla in less than 10 seconds, and the T5 is faster than it is.
--dave
This was a striking use of matrix mathematics back when I was in university in the '80s. The prof took our ramking sheets and created a influencer-influencee matrix and a measure of the connectedness of the group.
Mind you, he had to puch the data on cards and show us the results the next day, but the algorithm he used was old hat even in thsoe days.
--dave
The tax is supposed to go to the artist, through the existing system for paying for playing the songs, so the music publishers who haven't tied up their artists in contracts don't get a penny. The big music publishers *loudly* denegrate this approach, and would like a DMCA instead.
I just sent the following to the CBC:
I'm a minor author, and the reason I'm a successful one is that my book was available for download. Anyone who liked it and wanted a printed copy ordered it from my publisher, who was the only person authorized to print it as a book, on thin enough paper to carry around without a knapsack.
This and other similar laws threaten my ability to make it available on-line, and therefor cut of my publisher and I off from this known successful approach.
Exactly the opposite of what a copyright law should do!
--dave
Us Canajans just had a rule that contact mssages were sent at FLASH priority in the clear... as the enemy who is currently shooting at you knows where he is, it is pretty easy for him to guess where you are.
Come to think of it, that allows a known-plaintxt attack on BATCO (;-))
--dave
Er, I'd instead reccomend the same "white listed" software as the cisco chap does.
In actual practice, I use an operating system and applications from people who make their source available to me and everyone else to audit. That's my white list!
--dave
I read the Globe and Mail, which could by no means ever be considered far-left, and the first I saw of it was this discussion on Slashdot.
Wikipedia claims that this charge had first been laid in Ontario, but since the Ontario Human Rights Code specifically prohibits the Commission from "interfer[ing] with the freedom of expression of opinion", it failed ignominiously. It was then re-attempted in BC, in the hope of not being immediately thrown out of court.
Since on the face of it he's innocent, I suspect he's playing this up to the hilt to get more attention for his book.
--dave
These guys wrote some of the easiest to understand books I've ever seen. I have the old dead-tree versions of Basic Electronics and Basic Electricity, but these days you can get PDFs of them from Wiley
--dave
Odd: my 750 MHz box flies on the new system, using a pretty old Mozilla, version 1.7
--dave
Bother, I meant Yahoo's Problems Are Not Your Problems
It's actually useful to break the response time out into three parts:
1) Round-trip time, the latency from the network
2) Transfer time, the time from receiving the first byte of the page to the time the last byte arrives. This varies greatly with page size, and is the time you use to do KB/S calculations as well.
3) Latency proper, the time between sending the request and receiving the first byte of the page. This is the time that grows during an overload, and the one that capacity planners use to do queuing models to see how much the server will slow down by under an overload.
--dave (a capcity planner) c-b
A good review and counter-argument is available at the "codinghorror" blog where Jeff Atwood points out the codinghorror blogYahoo's Problems Are Not Your Problems
--dave
Huh? Judge Kimball might rule that SCO
ripped off Sun, but not that Sun didn't
buy licences from Bell back when they
together wrote Solaris 2 (Solaris 1 was
BSD, you may remember, for which you
still had to buy a Bell 32V license)
--dave
Kent Recal wrote"
1. Package Management (the lack thereof) Pkgadd is bad joke when you're used to apt-get and emerge.I use pkg-get, courtesy of blastwave.org
--dave
And, to be fair, OS/360 had patch
space compiled/assembeled in.
--dave
Perhaps it's an evil plot to make
better OSs have to reboot (;-))
--dave
Tomasz Chmielewski wrote on LKML: the idea seem to be patented by Microsoft, i.e. this patent from December 2002: http://www.google.com/patents?id=cVyWAAAAEBAJ&dq=hotpatching In essence, they patented kexec ;)
Andi Kleen promptly provided prior art: The basic patching idea is old and has been used many times, long predating kexec. e.g. it's a common way to implement incremental linkers too.
Random BedHead Ed wrote
You could argue that if Java goes GPL, gcj has been successful even if it suddenly becomes irrelevant.Even better, the two compilers can be compared, the better ideas identified and the final compilers can get better. Think of the Multics Emacs in lisp and RMC's evenual rewrite of the TECO emacs in lisp.
--dave
Whereas I see it as merely part of the l ong-drawn-out fight to keep Microsoft from doing an embrace, extend and extinguish on them.
You may remember that the MS java compiler gained some hidden MS-only extensions. That led to a large court case which MS lost, and a large payment to Sun for misusing the trademark.
Now that MS Java, renamed C#, is fully incompatible with real Java, there's no longer a reason to protect the trademark.
--dave
No, Anonymous just has an axe to grind. MySQL is releasing some stuff in the for-pay codebase first. And I note a commentator below says the backup is in the GPL codebase after all...
--dave
In the old ACE team in Toronto, the general rule was that you could recommend anyone who was better than you at something.
This didn't prevent some of the good folks from wandering away, but it did keep the average goodness of the shop headed upwards.
--dave
rbrander wrote: Except for the one valid complaint that the government had helped this company along with a lot of support, I don't think anybody's even pretending that this is a justified intervention in the free market.
It's far more likely they're concerned with what the said they were concerned about, the Radarsat-2. The Globe and Mail business section said today In mid-March, the tide turned, and questions about whether U.S. security laws would give that country control of satellite data about Canada's Far North raised the spectre it might be used against Canada's contested claims in the Arctic. That image conflicted with Prime Minister Stephen Harper's high-profile vow to protect Canada's sovereignty in the Arctic, and made it a key political plank.
It makes little sense to sell your only far-north tracking satelite to a country that you're arguing with about far north sovereignty. Espcially after paying real money to the Russians to put it up!
--dave
If he's saying that his multicore processors are going to be hard to program, then self-interest suggests he be very very quiet (;-))
Seriously, though, adding what used to be a video board to the CPU doesn't change the programming model. I suspect he's more interested in debating future issues with more tightly coupled processors.
--dave