Agreed, but I'm reluctant to spend
a whack of money buying Vmware, and
another whack upgrading a PC to run it.
I bacame a Win4Lin and Linux bigot
the day my el-junko 133 MHz Pentium One ran
MS project under Win4Lin under Linux
faster than it ran on Win95
on the same hardware. A real filesystem
and an MMU mke a lot of difference!
I hope it's also a direction. The
moer thst's written in Java following
Java-related standards, the less that
has to be done compatable to a certain
monopoly platform's ~standards.
Sun is selling AMD 64, and Intel implicitly
admitted that Itanic (I love that name (:-))
was doomed by releasing an AMD clone. Does that
perhaps mean that Intel should close themselves
down?
No, the N-way multithreaded cores
are very somple and regular, and
arguably a lot easier to get to work
than a bleeding-edge
unithreaded core.
To me it looks like a
conservative move: concentrate
on something that's simple
and elegant which gives more
total performance at the same
clock speed. Get it shipping
with good yeilds, then ramp up the
clock.
AMD does a pretty decent uniprocessor CPU, but
you need a backplane by someone like
Seymour Cray to run a serious 64-processor
system. Sun, not being stupid, have a backplane first designed by... some guy named Cray.
Er, didn't Wal-Mart announce last week that
they were selling computers with the Linux
Sun
Java Desktop installed?
--dave
Re:"Canada's national newspaper?"
on
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handslikesnakes wrote We have more than one, you know.
Really? Were you thinking of the National
Examiner^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^b Post, then?
--dave
[For those who don't know about the
newspapers up here, the Post made a valiant
attempt to outcompete the Globe. Alas,
their accuracy was a bit low and their
tendancy to spin a bit high, so they
get teased a bit about that]
Many user-level programs in Unix and
Linux happily install in per-user mode
without asking for the root password*.
Make this all and the end
users won't have the root password,
and therefor won't be able to authorize
installing a virus... even assuming they
don't realize that asking for the password
is an unexpected behavior.
The Elbrus group in Russia just developed a
proof-of-concept SPARC chip which
draws 1 watt at 500 MHz, the MCST R-500. It
run Linux and Solaris.
It was described thusly:
In late February 2004 ZAO MCST delivered samples of the first Russian-made microprocessor "MCST R-500" with a feature size of 0.13 micron, clock frequency 450-500MHz and power consumption of less than 1W.
Allen Zadr writes: Java is a losing deal that can't be safely dropped.
I'd consider Java a mechanism to keep customers from being locked into a particular hardware && software platform, thus making it possible
for Sun to keep selling hardware.
And I'd say it has succeeded, as Java's now back on
Windows as part of the deal. Which is consistant
with the eWeek story.
My understanding is that included the support...
Solaris alone is free, and since my company only
has one employee (;-)) that sounds like
a fairly good deal.
--dave (wearing his author hat) c-b
You were quoted as saying " I will, as quickly as possible, make changes to our copyright law", in response to concerns expressed by the Canadian music industry.
As an author, I strongly support strong copyright protection against professional thieves, but you should be aware that the so-called "sharing" on the internet has increased the sales of my book and others. Readers go out and buy the printed version, as it's far more convenient and portable than a computer.
I therefor support having my book available to "share", as it's to my financial benefit, and that of my publisher.
I see the same thing happening with music. I strongly suspect that playing music on the internet is financially advantageous to the artists and publishers.
As I'm elderly I don't download music: I listen to the CBC and buy CDs I like. My younger friends say they listen on-line and then buy CDs. I don't have sales figures for CDs that I do for my book, but a recent study by two academics who do have the figures showed that the downloading has not done any detectable harm.
The study, "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales An Empirical Analysis", by Felix Oberholzer and Koleman Strumpf concluded "Downloads have an effect on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero... and are inconsistent with claims that file sharing is the primary reason for the recent decline in music sales." That reports is available at http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_M arch 2004.pdf
I would like to see continuing stringent protection for authors, but suspect that playing music on the internet is about as dangerous to the artists and their publishers as playing it on the radio.
I suspect this is much like the furor over VCRs and CD burners, and should be dealt with the same way, with a levy on blank CDs. I would be quite supportive of levies, including additional levies, on the CD media and burners I use.
s20451 writes: In spite of this, Canadian television has yet to produce a domestic hit television series
Er, how about Cold Case Files, recently
copied in the 'States. Not to mention
North of Sixty, King of Kensington (also copied
but renamed)
and show after show back to Howdy Doodie (also copied in the States).
--dave (When Howdy Doody was showing, modern televisions
had 3" screens) c-b
Actually it's not: It's a rejection of the
claim that infringent has happened, on the
grounds that no evidence of uploading was
presented. Only downloading.
Give evidence of a crime, though, the court
certainly would do what you said, and allow
a suit against uploaders (actually distributors)
to go forward to the discovery stage.
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I bacame a Win4Lin and Linux bigot the day my el-junko 133 MHz Pentium One ran MS project under Win4Lin under Linux faster than it ran on Win95 on the same hardware. A real filesystem and an MMU mke a lot of difference!
--dave
It's MS that will fork anything they feel like, make it dependant on .NET, ship it on a monopoly platform
and reap ... monopoly benefits from it.
--dave
--dave
--dave
- return the code to the community
- ship only that code on their monopoly platform.
Now the majority of Java written will run only on MS servers withThat make Mono critical to any Java implementation, and doesn't make it any easier than Wine... which is to say, makes it a sngle point of failure.
--dave
--dave
I thought that Sun was always getting slagged by the commentators at Slashdot (;-))
--dave
--dave
Omega1045 wrote "This weekend I went to install some GNU software on my WinXP Pro laptop. "
A good, GUI-based XP apt-get, even if it only provides access to Unix-derived apps on XP, will serve two purposes:
--dave
To me it looks like a conservative move: concentrate on something that's simple and elegant which gives more total performance at the same clock speed. Get it shipping with good yeilds, then ramp up the clock.
--dave
--dave
--dave
Really? Were you thinking of the National Examiner^b^b^b^b^b^b^b^b Post, then?
--dave
[For those who don't know about the newspapers up here, the Post made a valiant attempt to outcompete the Globe. Alas, their accuracy was a bit low and their tendancy to spin a bit high, so they get teased a bit about that]
Make this all and the end users won't have the root password, and therefor won't be able to authorize installing a virus... even assuming they don't realize that asking for the password is an unexpected behavior.
--dave
[* developers are doing just that]
It was described thusly: In late February 2004 ZAO MCST delivered samples of the first Russian-made microprocessor "MCST R-500" with a feature size of 0.13 micron, clock frequency 450-500MHz and power consumption of less than 1W.
See http://www.elbrus.ru/mcst/eng/complex.shtml
I'd consider Java a mechanism to keep customers from being locked into a particular hardware && software platform, thus making it possible for Sun to keep selling hardware.
And I'd say it has succeeded, as Java's now back on Windows as part of the deal. Which is consistant with the eWeek story.
--dave
My understanding is that included the support... Solaris alone is free, and since my company only has one employee (;-)) that sounds like a fairly good deal. --dave (wearing his author hat) c-b
Actually it can be good for a company that has trouble coming up with great whacks of cash for upgrades, so long as the subscription fee is both
- fair for the value received and
- low enough to allow savings to finance a change-over.
I'm biased, but $50-$100 per seat per year sounds good to me.--dave
Maybe change the rules so the politicians can't go to their friends to raise money for the upcoming elsction...
Oh, never mind, we did that, just this year (;-))
--dave
dave
The Honourable Ms. Scherrer:
... and are inconsistentM arch 2004.pdf
You were quoted as saying " I will, as quickly as possible, make changes to our
copyright law", in response to concerns expressed by the Canadian music industry.
As an author, I strongly support strong copyright protection against professional
thieves, but you should be aware that the so-called "sharing" on the internet has
increased the sales of my book and others. Readers go out and buy the printed
version, as it's far more convenient and portable than a computer.
I therefor support having my book available to "share", as it's to my financial
benefit, and that of my publisher.
I see the same thing happening with music. I strongly suspect that playing
music on the internet is financially advantageous to the artists and publishers.
As I'm elderly I don't download music: I listen to the CBC and buy CDs I like.
My younger friends say they listen on-line and then buy CDs. I don't have sales
figures for CDs that I do for my book, but a recent study by two academics who
do have the figures showed that the downloading has not done any detectable
harm.
The study, "The Effect of File Sharing on Record Sales An Empirical Analysis",
by Felix Oberholzer and Koleman Strumpf concluded "Downloads have an effect
on sales which is statistically indistinguishable from zero
with claims that file sharing is the primary reason for the recent decline in music
sales." That reports is available at
http://www.unc.edu/~cigar/papers/FileSharing_
I would like to see continuing stringent protection for authors, but suspect
that playing music on the internet is about as dangerous to the artists and
their publishers as playing it on the radio.
I suspect this is much like the furor over VCRs and CD burners, and should
be dealt with the same way, with a levy on blank CDs. I would be quite
supportive of levies, including additional levies, on the CD media and
burners I use.
Sincerely, David Collier-Brown
Then subsitute in "SPARC international" for proprietary and see if what you get (;-)).
--dave (biased, you understand) c-b
Er, how about Cold Case Files, recently copied in the 'States. Not to mention North of Sixty, King of Kensington (also copied but renamed) and show after show back to Howdy Doodie (also copied in the States).
--dave (When Howdy Doody was showing, modern televisions had 3" screens) c-b
Give evidence of a crime, though, the court certainly would do what you said, and allow a suit against uploaders (actually distributors) to go forward to the discovery stage.
--dave
--dave