And obviously everyone needs a CMS, Portal, J2EE, and embedded DB? Most people wouldn't consider deploying these full stop.
Berkeley DB is prittly much a gold-standard for what it does. Why on earth would you not consider deploying it, if that was what you needed?
All games have binary content that is not code. You could easly descise the game images as pictures just by adding a PNG/JPEG header or whatever the PSP norm is.
Also what stops the pirates distributing the unvalidated code, along with some sort of randomizer that can mix it up a bit. Then individuals can submit this to the automated system and get it verified for thier PSP.
People have shown they will but quite a bit of effort into getting pirate games (expecially when they are not only free but considerably better then the official ones).
Actually I think 'R' stands for the reconcilability of the characters not the Actors. This gives Friends a strait 10 as they were all everyday Joes.
Seen as the ENTIRE point of Joey's character was he was a want-to-be actor. I think they score more then 0 for aspiration. Monica and Rachel both wanted better jobs (OK they got them, see below) so I think a 5 would be fair.
Add at least 2 for the turkey incident to the slapstick and you have:
(10 x 5 + 8) x 3 + 1 / 10 = 17.5
Then if you factor in the "Beautiful People" syndrome that is uniquely American (so justifiably left out of the UKGold study) you would get a fairly accurate ranking of Friends.
I agree that that IBM didn't define the start of the computing business. And they may well have been less influential then the companies you mention (as are most companies).
However IBM did (almost by accident) trigger the PC revolution and I can't see how that doesn't class as 'redefining' the industry - in pure numbers if nothing else.
The same argument applies to Microsoft. They didn't invent to OS, or even add significant new features. They probably never even have the best OS. But they have still defined the industry in recent years (although hopefully that is rapidly on the wane).
The have designed the chips for all the major consoles.
The have dumped their Intel based PC business.
They have dumped their partner for Power based PCs (IBM would have hardly had to bend over backwards to continue the Apple relationship - they must have basically stonewalled them for Job's to risk a jump to Intel.)
They are very Linux friendly.
What does that mean?
They are going to ship an unbelievable volume of chips, allowing them to make highend chips cost effectively.
They have no tires to the existing PC business and are completely free to do something new.
They have a powerful and adaptable OS that they can push for everything from mobile phones to big iron.
If I was Intel/Microsoft/Apple/Lenovo I would be running for the hills. IBM is about to try and redefine computing again.
I am not simply recycling the hype about the CELL being better then sliced bread. I truly think the signs are there that IBM is going to go head long into the Workstation/Embedded/Client/Server market with a CELL/Linux architecture and are going to try and settle some very old debts with Wintel.
I don't now whether they will successes. I expect it will come down to whether they can make programming the SPU's as easy as x86. But I think it will be a very interesting few years.
To be fair the ATI design specificly addresses the PCI Express bus issue. The cards use an external connector (can anyone say 3dfx?) to composite the frames, so unlike nVidia's SLI they don't need to send the rendered frames across the bus. (Except for Render to Texture commands and the like). Obviously two cards are going to push more of the bottlenecks onto onther areas of the system, but this is true of every new top of the range card. The are still lots of situations where games are GPU bound.
M$ is focused arround it's corporate customers who nearly all use Intel and ATI embeded chips. (70% of general market - far higher in corporate PCs).
If they make Avalon map 1:1 onto Intel chips then M$ most important customers will be very happy.
You could argue noone looses as gammer mashines will easily make up the slack, but I am sure that nVidia can't bare the though they won't get to influence what is going to be one of the most used graphics libraries for years to come.
I can't belive it as taken them so long.
The talk may be about nVidia and ATI fighting for the graphics market, but what people is forget is Intel are trouncing nVidea at the moment!
Gamers and graphic workstations are a tiny fraction of the PC market, the integrated marked dwarfes that of the £500+ hot-rod cards.
Shortly this is just the same as googling with "filetype:torrent"? The whole point of P2P is that it works best when everyone is downloading from the same source. Shouldn't the job of a dedicated torrent search be to find the most active (i.e. fastest downloading) torrents of each file? At least it could tell you the number of active users and current though-put so you had some idea of which ones were better.
I partially accept your point, but 1Gb of code??? The is no dificultiy pulling the resources of the originall disc (even if they are embeded in whatever the XBox called.exe). The is no way any game toped 100MB of pure code, 10MB is probably more normal. IIRC the whole of MS Office is well under 100MB.
Why would you go to the trouble of emulating a x86 game on a PowerPC (then testing to see if it is playable), the games companies won't have lost thier source, can't they just recombile for for the PowerPC. As long as M$ has put some backwards compatablity in the APIs.
THey could just download the new code via XBox Live when you inserted an old CD (still reading the media content from the CD).
This way they could market the XBox 360 as plaing version 1 games "Better then the original!", given people a reason to upgrade before they even have a decent games libary for the new system.
I use my computer as a tool to do my work. I can not contemplate fully switching to GNU/Linux until every application I use is supported (and I have learnt to use the OSS versions). Whilst this may not seem a strong vote for porting OSS apps to Windows it really is:
For the moment my work dictates I run Windows, however OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, Blender, Mono, Apache, MySQL, PERL, Eclipse, Xemacs all ensure that 90% of the time I am running OSS (in fact Cygwin and CoLinux means I can also run a full Gentoo system with X11 running OpenSSH, Konqueror, Evolution and cinelerra side by side with dreaded M$ software.) so very soon I hope to drop the dreaded dual-boot and switch to a good OS.
As more OSS applications can me easily tried and learnt be Microserfs the better people will understand OSS, and once they are only using apps that work better on an alternative OS they won't even have to think about brining the expensive crappy MS OS.
Whilst I am sure this is a step forward there must still be a big step between creating a 5-qubit register and a 5-qubit entangled register. With what they have created can only do the same as a five bit digital computer, with the second you could <insert you favourite quantum hyperbole here>.
I got thanked; the Business Studies teacher (Who was also the sysadmin despite not knowing anything about computers) had forgotten her password (it was her surname!).
I can see four areas for machine learning in a Web Browser:
Optimizing the runtime particularly memory usage - gains are unlikely to compensate for the cost of the AI (assuming it is already well optimised by the original programmers).
Layout engine - Improve the layout of the page for the current device.
Apply hi-visibility themes to pages which weren't written to work with them.
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layout pages for small/limited devices
Obviously this is all better done my the author when they design the page, but in the real world and with legacy pages it would be nice for the browser to automated it.
They would require machine learning because there is not 'correct' answer to what content should be kept/dropped to fit a small screen, it would depend on the users preferences, eyesight, page design, which parts of the page where new since the last visit etc.
Content filtering:
SPAM filtering for Thunderbird - already okay but can always be improved.
Add/popup blocker - already working well (when combined with an up to date HOSTS file).
Porn, Drug usage, racism pages, (for minors?).
Content suggestion:
Auto complete form fields with previous values - done.
Spell checking, grammar, thesaurus - mainly for Thunderbird.
"Judging form your bookmarks you might also like X"
"Last time you where here you went here next"
"You often read page X and it has just been updated"
"This page is very similar to X which has a higher Google rating"
You certainly can't understand friendly fire incidents until you have played a FPS online and waited for your team's medics to actual give you some health.
It is a bit of a sledgehammer to crack and acorn route but Evolution works perfectly under colinux.
I use colinux to run gentoo (other distros are available), and cygwin to add XWindow support. You also need to follow the instructions to get networking working and then you can just:
emerge evolution
Admittedly this is a lot of setup work but once it is working it is not obvious that evolution isn't a native port. The other benefit is you can use the same setup to run any Linux programs under Windows (though image editing or 3D programs would be very slow)
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Surly the market is mail order rental, you simple order the films you want online and get mailed the disposable disks, none of the hassle and cost of mailing them back. The added bonus is you can order a few for a rainy day and watch them when you want, all be it only once.
This may not be a big market but it is there, the Internet has certainly made me far too lazy to buy/rent anything which would involve actually going to a shop.
If you want complain about the waste of plastic why and DVD boxes circular or at least square?
I don't expect that 'copping' with stairs implies that it can clime them. You would need one per floor at a minimum, add to this servicing, repairing, and emptying costs and you are not making much of a saving in the first year.
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And obviously everyone needs a CMS, Portal, J2EE, and embedded DB? Most people wouldn't consider deploying these full stop. Berkeley DB is prittly much a gold-standard for what it does. Why on earth would you not consider deploying it, if that was what you needed?
All games have binary content that is not code. You could easly descise the game images as pictures just by adding a PNG/JPEG header or whatever the PSP norm is. Also what stops the pirates distributing the unvalidated code, along with some sort of randomizer that can mix it up a bit. Then individuals can submit this to the automated system and get it verified for thier PSP. People have shown they will but quite a bit of effort into getting pirate games (expecially when they are not only free but considerably better then the official ones).
Actually I think 'R' stands for the reconcilability of the characters not the Actors. This gives Friends a strait 10 as they were all everyday Joes.
Seen as the ENTIRE point of Joey's character was he was a want-to-be actor. I think they score more then 0 for aspiration. Monica and Rachel both wanted better jobs (OK they got them, see below) so I think a 5 would be fair.
Add at least 2 for the turkey incident to the slapstick and you have:
(10 x 5 + 8) x 3 + 1 / 10 = 17.5
Then if you factor in the "Beautiful People" syndrome that is uniquely American (so justifiably left out of the UKGold study) you would get a fairly accurate ranking of Friends.
I agree that that IBM didn't define the start of the computing business. And they may well have been less influential then the companies you mention (as are most companies).
However IBM did (almost by accident) trigger the PC revolution and I can't see how that doesn't class as 'redefining' the industry - in pure numbers if nothing else.
The same argument applies to Microsoft. They didn't invent to OS, or even add significant new features. They probably never even have the best OS. But they have still defined the industry in recent years (although hopefully that is rapidly on the wane).
Okay what do we know about IBM:
What does that mean?
If I was Intel/Microsoft/Apple/Lenovo I would be running for the hills. IBM is about to try and redefine computing again.
I am not simply recycling the hype about the CELL being better then sliced bread. I truly think the signs are there that IBM is going to go head long into the Workstation/Embedded/Client/Server market with a CELL/Linux architecture and are going to try and settle some very old debts with Wintel.
I don't now whether they will successes. I expect it will come down to whether they can make programming the SPU's as easy as x86. But I think it will be a very interesting few years.
Theoreticaly that Cray COULD be configuerd for 147TFlops:
.9m x 1.5 Air cooled cabinets only top out at about half a teraflop.
18Gf * 8 MSP * 16 Compute Modules * 64 Liquid-cooled Cabinets ~= 147TFlops
But EACH cabinets is 1.3m x 2.6m so 64 would cover 216.32 square meters or a fair sized room!
The nice
18Gf * 8 MSP * 4 Compute Modules = 576GFlops
To be fair the ATI design specificly addresses the PCI Express bus issue. The cards use an external connector (can anyone say 3dfx?) to composite the frames, so unlike nVidia's SLI they don't need to send the rendered frames across the bus. (Except for Render to Texture commands and the like).
Obviously two cards are going to push more of the bottlenecks onto onther areas of the system, but this is true of every new top of the range card. The are still lots of situations where games are GPU bound.
M$ is focused arround it's corporate customers who nearly all use Intel and ATI embeded chips. (70% of general market - far higher in corporate PCs). If they make Avalon map 1:1 onto Intel chips then M$ most important customers will be very happy. You could argue noone looses as gammer mashines will easily make up the slack, but I am sure that nVidia can't bare the though they won't get to influence what is going to be one of the most used graphics libraries for years to come.
And why would it matter to nVidia when M$ looks at the market shares and decides that only optimising Longhorn for Intel and ATI will be fine.
Some nice numbers to back this up:i cs_chips_q4_04/
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/01/31/graph
I can't belive it as taken them so long. The talk may be about nVidia and ATI fighting for the graphics market, but what people is forget is Intel are trouncing nVidea at the moment! Gamers and graphic workstations are a tiny fraction of the PC market, the integrated marked dwarfes that of the £500+ hot-rod cards.
Shortly this is just the same as googling with "filetype:torrent"?
The whole point of P2P is that it works best when everyone is downloading from the same source. Shouldn't the job of a dedicated torrent search be to find the most active (i.e. fastest downloading) torrents of each file?
At least it could tell you the number of active users and current though-put so you had some idea of which ones were better.
I partially accept your point, but 1Gb of code??? The is no dificultiy pulling the resources of the originall disc (even if they are embeded in whatever the XBox called .exe). The is no way any game toped 100MB of pure code, 10MB is probably more normal.
IIRC the whole of MS Office is well under 100MB.
Why would you go to the trouble of emulating a x86 game on a PowerPC (then testing to see if it is playable), the games companies won't have lost thier source, can't they just recombile for for the PowerPC. As long as M$ has put some backwards compatablity in the APIs.
THey could just download the new code via XBox Live when you inserted an old CD (still reading the media content from the CD).
This way they could market the XBox 360 as plaing version 1 games "Better then the original!", given people a reason to upgrade before they even have a decent games libary for the new system.
Unichrome has basic 3D hardware and the new drivers seem to support this.
I use my computer as a tool to do my work. I can not contemplate fully switching to GNU/Linux until every application I use is supported (and I have learnt to use the OSS versions). Whilst this may not seem a strong vote for porting OSS apps to Windows it really is: For the moment my work dictates I run Windows, however OpenOffice, Firefox, Thunderbird, GIMP, Blender, Mono, Apache, MySQL, PERL, Eclipse, Xemacs all ensure that 90% of the time I am running OSS (in fact Cygwin and CoLinux means I can also run a full Gentoo system with X11 running OpenSSH, Konqueror, Evolution and cinelerra side by side with dreaded M$ software.) so very soon I hope to drop the dreaded dual-boot and switch to a good OS. As more OSS applications can me easily tried and learnt be Microserfs the better people will understand OSS, and once they are only using apps that work better on an alternative OS they won't even have to think about brining the expensive crappy MS OS.
Whilst I am sure this is a step forward there must still be a big step between creating a 5-qubit register and a 5-qubit entangled register. With what they have created can only do the same as a five bit digital computer, with the second you could <insert you favourite quantum hyperbole here>.
I got thanked; the Business Studies teacher (Who was also the sysadmin despite not knowing anything about computers) had forgotten her password (it was her surname!).
I can see four areas for machine learning in a Web Browser:
Layout engine - Improve the layout of the page for the current device.
Obviously this is all better done my the author when they design the page, but in the real world and with legacy pages it would be nice for the browser to automated it.
They would require machine learning because there is not 'correct' answer to what content should be kept/dropped to fit a small screen, it would depend on the users preferences, eyesight, page design, which parts of the page where new since the last visit etc.
Content filtering:
Content suggestion:
You certainly can't understand friendly fire incidents until you have played a FPS online and waited for your team's medics to actual give you some health.
Ultima 7 is still going strong!
They probably meant you still have to plug the antennas in (so they don't snap off in shipping).
The price difference only really covers these antennas anyway, the kit is just designed to be easier to customise not better value.
It is a bit of a sledgehammer to crack and acorn route but Evolution works perfectly under colinux.
I use colinux to run gentoo (other distros are available), and cygwin to add XWindow support. You also need to follow the instructions to get networking working and then you can just :
Admittedly this is a lot of setup work but once it is working it is not obvious that evolution isn't a native port. The other benefit is you can use the same setup to run any Linux programs under Windows (though image editing or 3D programs would be very slow)
Surly the market is mail order rental, you simple order the films you want online and get mailed the disposable disks, none of the hassle and cost of mailing them back. The added bonus is you can order a few for a rainy day and watch them when you want, all be it only once. This may not be a big market but it is there, the Internet has certainly made me far too lazy to buy/rent anything which would involve actually going to a shop. If you want complain about the waste of plastic why and DVD boxes circular or at least square?
I don't expect that 'copping' with stairs implies that it can clime them. You would need one per floor at a minimum, add to this servicing, repairing, and emptying costs and you are not making much of a saving in the first year.