We have to look at how much this affects different people.
Who needs so much raw processing power? Your everyday Joe Computer User, only uses it for Word Processing and checking email, and surfing the interweb. Which is why when some of my friends (or their parents) go looking for a new computer, I ask them what they use their computer for, mostly. If they're not eXtreme gamers or something, then I don't see a point with them buying a processor screaming along at 4 Ghz or whatever.
In the light of this, I still think there's a market for single-core CPU's for the everyday user. There is probably one other thing that can change this though - video encoding/recoding. A lot of people are starting to use their PC for burning DVD's. As anyone who's ever authored a DVD knows, it can take some time. It takes about 3.5 hours on my Pentium 2.4Ghz to author a (4 Gig) DVD. That time is spent on the encoding. So multicore processors would probably help with that (or perhaps there could be a dedicated hardware solution - encoder cards?).
I know this article is just talking about continuing trends, and what could die out. So yes, unicore/single-core CPU's may not be a "profitable" trend, but there are still uses for them. Also, as the article showed, talking about hyperthreading, it would also help if apps were written taking into account hyperthreading/multicore processors in mind. That way, they can take full advantage of it. I see hardware taking a while to catch up and utilize the full potential of the hardware.
Newtonian Physics guarantees that the object will fly towards Mars, and ending in orbit if all things go well.
Then let's say they have a landing module to go down, and then come back up to join the sail-powered spacecraft. They would still need thrusters to get OUT of orbit, back to Earth. Unless they're just on their way there to snap some quick pictures and come back. I was talking about humans doing something useful ON Mars. I am well aware that a probe can go there, swing around, and come back.
Emergency channel, zero-one-three-zero, Code Red. It has been three hours since our contact with the alien probe. All attempts at regaining power have failed. All non-essential fuel has been given...to slow our consumption of life-support reserves. Our chief engineer is trying to deploy a makeshift solar sail. We have high hopes that this will, if successful, generate power to keep us alive./offtopic
Ah yes... ST:IV... You know, I think that guy, and Engineer Singh in ST:TNG who died when that weird electricity creature killed him are the only two indian people in star trek.
leaving a micrometre-thin sail to continue the voyage to Mars.
I wonder how susceptible this sail would be to space dust, meteorites and space junk? Also, in response to an earlier comment made by someone about CO, I believe this technology would be used to send PROBES mostly and not people to Mars. Think about it... if they sent a person out there, how would they get back? They would need to use conventional means, which would defeat the whole purpose. Unless of course, they had another sail, AND a microwave transmitter on Mars.
This technology will be good for sending probes, but not for sending people, just yet.
BTW. The sail emits carbon monoxide to get its speed boost. You know, the stuff the kills humans almost as fast as dihydrogen monoxide.
You really want to be behind that thing for a whole month?
Do you really think that they haven't thought about that? First of all, the astronauts would be in some sort of pressurized cabin that will take care of all their air-breathing needs. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let the CO from outside get in. Furthermore, the pressure inside will be much greater than the pressure outside. Hence air will have a tendency to flow out, rather than the CO flowing in.
Later this year he may conduct another experiment where the mice have 100 percent human brains. This would be done, he said, by injecting human neurons into the brains of embryonic mice
In response to the parent, I've been doing this too, through iframes, Javascript and some server-side-scripting.
I keep a hidden iframe that handles all my db transactions. All forms post to that iframe. The server-side language (I use PHP), dynamically creates JavaScript that accesses objects in the main frame, and updates them. This way, I don't have to reload the whole page.
Even if Enterprise isn't the greatest Trek series ever, I wouldn't dismiss it outright. It did have its moments. Even if Seaons one and two weren't great, Season 3 had a very nice story arc with some really nice episodes. Some of the characters are even gaining some depth. I personally didn't start seeing it until season 3.
Season 4 has also had some nice episodes, and a promising story arc. At the very least, they should allow the series to finish this season. They're going over some interesting early Trek history like the Romulan war, and the foundation of the federation.
Ideally, they should just let the franchise rest for a while - a LONG while, after Enterprise is done.
Wow, I'm really excited! I get to see pictures from another world! Woohoo!
Now, I believe the next stop is Europa... It apparently has a lot of Early Earth-Like organic compound mixtures, and quite possibly, liquid water. It will be worthwhile to see that Europa holds - possibly life?
But according to this article from a story that was posted on Slashdot yesterday:
But if next July's anticipated Supreme Court ruling in the MPAA/RIAA vs Grokster/Streamcast goes in favour of the movie and music industries, the heat is going to be on any technology, no matter how benign the intentions of its developer, that nevertheless makes piracy possible.
Which is rather stupid and obtuse. If you're trying to pioneer a novel way to transfer data, then it could be used for piracy. Anything that transfers bits and bytes around can be held liable. So setting this precedent is just PLAIN STUPID. How far will *AA go? Let's say this precedent had already been established... then they could go after Brian Cohen. They could hold him responsible for create an application "makes piracy possible, regardless of his benign intentions". This way the *AA could crush anything that they see as a potential threat.
And then people wouldn't need Windows anymore (aside from the Office thing but that is nearing the end as well).
Let's say you have a windows machine and then you have these cool cross-platform Open Source apps on it. Let's say you've been using Windows all this while - what would make you want to switch? Why would you want to switch? That's the point he's trying to make.
I own a Neuros - I've had it for the past four or five months. I have to say that I am pretty happy with it.
Initially the UI was a little clunky, but with successive Firmware updates it has gotten much better.
The unit is bulkier compared to the iPod, but it plays almost any file format - MP3, WMA, OGG...
Tech support is also amazing. I had a problem with the unit not recharding properly. I sent it over to them and they fixed the unit and sent it back to me in about two weeks. Very prompt.
No, that's not what I meant... My issue is more with holding the developer responsible for any program that may have a benign intention, but that can be used for piracy. Why hold the developer responsible for what the users are doing? I agree that there are people who want their free movies and pr0n, but why hold the developer responsible? Let's say this scenario had already come to pass, before BitTorrent, then they could hold Cohen responsible for people trading movies over BitTorrent.
the heat is going to be on any technology, no matter how benign the intentions of its developer, that nevertheless makes piracy possible.
I mean... that's just obtuse - and that's putting it nicely. That covers such a wide range of areas. A simple cp command can facilitate piracy... so can ftp - so are all these commands going to be illegal? What if someone wrote an app that employs brilliant compression and some other novel technique to transfer large blocks? This could theoretically be used to pirate movies and music. Basically ANYTHING that can move data from one place to another can be used to pirate something...
But the sites themselves do not carry the files. They only have information about the trackers, and are not involved in the actual distribution or sharing of the files.
So how do they plan to sue them?
As far as the last paragraph in the article... I don't know what to say... Let's say I wrote a new program to copy files from one destination to another and someone used it to copy a bunch of MP3's and movies, I guess the RIAA/MPAA can knock down my door and come get me... even though I had the totally benign idea to simply copy files from one place to another...
I guess they should attack any file transferring program no-matter how benign it is? That's like saying let's put the gun in prison instead of the guy that fired it.
I didn't profess to know anything or everything about this issue.
This IS a discussion forum -- right? How else can I learn if I don't ask questions? So I may ask "stupid" questions, but I'll learn from them. We'll learn things from discussing them and it may so happen that people may ask rather obvious questions. I wasn't pretentious in my post, and I know that I am not an expert in patent law, but I am willing to learn, and that's exactly why I used "IANAL".
As far as my sig, I like it, and that's all that matters to me.
you have to consider how to give control of how the app looks and works to someone else
How the app looks is not the concern of the web developer. How to make the app render your content is what concerns the developer. The web developer doesn't need control of the app -- all he/she needs is control of how to render HIS content. Your page is your own, so you should be able to do what you want with it, so how difficult is it to provide a good rendering engine or a good document object model? All those things are transparent to the user...
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Religion is inevitable if you are self aware and mortal I reckon
You should read The God Gene
We have to look at how much this affects different people.
Who needs so much raw processing power? Your everyday Joe Computer User, only uses it for Word Processing and checking email, and surfing the interweb. Which is why when some of my friends (or their parents) go looking for a new computer, I ask them what they use their computer for, mostly. If they're not eXtreme gamers or something, then I don't see a point with them buying a processor screaming along at 4 Ghz or whatever.
In the light of this, I still think there's a market for single-core CPU's for the everyday user. There is probably one other thing that can change this though - video encoding/recoding. A lot of people are starting to use their PC for burning DVD's. As anyone who's ever authored a DVD knows, it can take some time. It takes about 3.5 hours on my Pentium 2.4Ghz to author a (4 Gig) DVD. That time is spent on the encoding. So multicore processors would probably help with that (or perhaps there could be a dedicated hardware solution - encoder cards?).
I know this article is just talking about continuing trends, and what could die out. So yes, unicore/single-core CPU's may not be a "profitable" trend, but there are still uses for them. Also, as the article showed, talking about hyperthreading, it would also help if apps were written taking into account hyperthreading/multicore processors in mind. That way, they can take full advantage of it. I see hardware taking a while to catch up and utilize the full potential of the hardware.
Who says this is a Linux vulnerability? This is a browser vulnerability.
Browsers != Linux.
And it's not FUD - it is an actual problem. It sure tricked Firefox running on my windows machine.
Newtonian Physics guarantees that the object will fly towards Mars, and ending in orbit if all things go well.
Then let's say they have a landing module to go down, and then come back up to join the sail-powered spacecraft. They would still need thrusters to get OUT of orbit, back to Earth. Unless they're just on their way there to snap some quick pictures and come back. I was talking about humans doing something useful ON Mars. I am well aware that a probe can go there, swing around, and come back.
oh noes11!!! we are t3h d00m3d!11!! lol!
Emergency channel, zero-one-three-zero, Code Red. It has been three hours since our contact with the alien probe. All attempts at regaining power have failed. All non-essential fuel has been given...to slow our consumption of life-support reserves. Our chief engineer is trying to deploy a makeshift solar sail. We have high hopes that this will, if successful, generate power to keep us alive. /offtopic
Ah yes... ST:IV... You know, I think that guy, and Engineer Singh in ST:TNG who died when that weird electricity creature killed him are the only two indian people in star trek.
leaving a micrometre-thin sail to continue the voyage to Mars.
I wonder how susceptible this sail would be to space dust, meteorites and space junk? Also, in response to an earlier comment made by someone about CO, I believe this technology would be used to send PROBES mostly and not people to Mars. Think about it... if they sent a person out there, how would they get back? They would need to use conventional means, which would defeat the whole purpose. Unless of course, they had another sail, AND a microwave transmitter on Mars.
This technology will be good for sending probes, but not for sending people, just yet.
BTW. The sail emits carbon monoxide to get its speed boost. You know, the stuff the kills humans almost as fast as dihydrogen monoxide. You really want to be behind that thing for a whole month?
Do you really think that they haven't thought about that? First of all, the astronauts would be in some sort of pressurized cabin that will take care of all their air-breathing needs. I'm pretty sure they wouldn't let the CO from outside get in. Furthermore, the pressure inside will be much greater than the pressure outside. Hence air will have a tendency to flow out, rather than the CO flowing in.
Later this year he may conduct another experiment where the mice have 100 percent human brains. This would be done, he said, by injecting human neurons into the brains of embryonic mice
Who can say Pinky and the Brain?!?!
I, for one, welcome our new human-animal hybrid chimera overlords.
In response to the parent, I've been doing this too, through iframes, Javascript and some server-side-scripting.
I keep a hidden iframe that handles all my db transactions. All forms post to that iframe. The server-side language (I use PHP), dynamically creates JavaScript that accesses objects in the main frame, and updates them. This way, I don't have to reload the whole page.
Even if Enterprise isn't the greatest Trek series ever, I wouldn't dismiss it outright. It did have its moments. Even if Seaons one and two weren't great, Season 3 had a very nice story arc with some really nice episodes. Some of the characters are even gaining some depth. I personally didn't start seeing it until season 3.
Season 4 has also had some nice episodes, and a promising story arc. At the very least, they should allow the series to finish this season. They're going over some interesting early Trek history like the Romulan war, and the foundation of the federation.
Ideally, they should just let the franchise rest for a while - a LONG while, after Enterprise is done.
"All the worlds are your's except... wait... this isn't Europa?"
Wow, I'm really excited! I get to see pictures from another world! Woohoo! Now, I believe the next stop is Europa... It apparently has a lot of Early Earth-Like organic compound mixtures, and quite possibly, liquid water. It will be worthwhile to see that Europa holds - possibly life?
It's the Monolith. Taa... taa... taaa...... TATAAAA!!!
this vs. this . (Claire Forlani)
But according to this article from a story that was posted on Slashdot yesterday:
But if next July's anticipated Supreme Court ruling in the MPAA/RIAA vs Grokster/Streamcast goes in favour of the movie and music industries, the heat is going to be on any technology, no matter how benign the intentions of its developer, that nevertheless makes piracy possible.
Which is rather stupid and obtuse. If you're trying to pioneer a novel way to transfer data, then it could be used for piracy. Anything that transfers bits and bytes around can be held liable. So setting this precedent is just PLAIN STUPID. How far will *AA go? Let's say this precedent had already been established... then they could go after Brian Cohen. They could hold him responsible for create an application "makes piracy possible, regardless of his benign intentions". This way the *AA could crush anything that they see as a potential threat.
And then people wouldn't need Windows anymore (aside from the Office thing but that is nearing the end as well).
Let's say you have a windows machine and then you have these cool cross-platform Open Source apps on it. Let's say you've been using Windows all this while - what would make you want to switch? Why would you want to switch? That's the point he's trying to make.
I own a Neuros - I've had it for the past four or five months. I have to say that I am pretty happy with it.
Initially the UI was a little clunky, but with successive Firmware updates it has gotten much better.
The unit is bulkier compared to the iPod, but it plays almost any file format - MP3, WMA, OGG...
Tech support is also amazing. I had a problem with the unit not recharding properly. I sent it over to them and they fixed the unit and sent it back to me in about two weeks. Very prompt.
find / | xargs grep [whatever]
Finds content.
No, that's not what I meant... My issue is more with holding the developer responsible for any program that may have a benign intention, but that can be used for piracy. Why hold the developer responsible for what the users are doing? I agree that there are people who want their free movies and pr0n, but why hold the developer responsible? Let's say this scenario had already come to pass, before BitTorrent, then they could hold Cohen responsible for people trading movies over BitTorrent.
This part:
the heat is going to be on any technology, no matter how benign the intentions of its developer, that nevertheless makes piracy possible.
I mean... that's just obtuse - and that's putting it nicely. That covers such a wide range of areas. A simple cp command can facilitate piracy... so can ftp - so are all these commands going to be illegal? What if someone wrote an app that employs brilliant compression and some other novel technique to transfer large blocks? This could theoretically be used to pirate movies and music. Basically ANYTHING that can move data from one place to another can be used to pirate something...
But the sites themselves do not carry the files. They only have information about the trackers, and are not involved in the actual distribution or sharing of the files.
So how do they plan to sue them?
As far as the last paragraph in the article... I don't know what to say... Let's say I wrote a new program to copy files from one destination to another and someone used it to copy a bunch of MP3's and movies, I guess the RIAA/MPAA can knock down my door and come get me... even though I had the totally benign idea to simply copy files from one place to another...
I guess they should attack any file transferring program no-matter how benign it is? That's like saying let's put the gun in prison instead of the guy that fired it.
I didn't profess to know anything or everything about this issue.
This IS a discussion forum -- right? How else can I learn if I don't ask questions? So I may ask "stupid" questions, but I'll learn from them. We'll learn things from discussing them and it may so happen that people may ask rather obvious questions. I wasn't pretentious in my post, and I know that I am not an expert in patent law, but I am willing to learn, and that's exactly why I used "IANAL".
As far as my sig, I like it, and that's all that matters to me.
you have to consider how to give control of how the app looks and works to someone else
How the app looks is not the concern of the web developer. How to make the app render your content is what concerns the developer. The web developer doesn't need control of the app -- all he/she needs is control of how to render HIS content. Your page is your own, so you should be able to do what you want with it, so how difficult is it to provide a good rendering engine or a good document object model? All those things are transparent to the user...