It's "Pentium class", not "Pentium". I would bet my money on this comptuer being PowerPC based, probably PowerPC 74xx based, also known as "G4" of Macintosh fame. There are _a_lot_ of PowerPC based avionics, and cutting edge airplanes like Eurofighter, Gripen and F-22 have multiple PowerPC based systems doing all kinds of stuff. When doing embedded electronics for the military you are not going far pitching Intel stuff. You are going to use hardware from manufacturers that can guarantee parts that'll keep being manufactured over many years and are harndened to endure rapid heat, cold, moist and preassure fluctuations. Intel are doing commodity products for low end table environments. Look to manufacturers like Freescale for the stable and durable stuff.
Well.. what is naughty about being naughty then? It usually doesn't breaking any laws just doing something fun which happens to be frowned upon or is breaking some taboo, i.e. value judgement that harms no one. Delightful!
The L in Blue Gene/L stands for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the site for the first installment. The P in Blue Gene/P stands for "Petaflops", the target performace The Q in Blue Gene/Q is probably just the letter after P The C in Blue Gene/C stands for "cellular computing", now renamed Cyclops64.
Such as a personal ID number. It's hard to find swedes that doesn't belive that it's a good thing. A national medical journal database is wanted, and having this connected to the database with prescriptions. Automated tax declatations are quite enjoyed too. There are more things that most Sweds enjoy: automated enrollment into schools, child benefits, state funded mandatory vaccinations and dental care.
I certainly doesn't speak for ALL Swedes but for the sake of argument, I'm speaking for most. I'm quite sure of that.
First: As one living in Sweden I don't recognize this description. For one, there is quite a stir in IT related, and mainstream media about this. And this have been going on for several years. The current government suggested this while in opposition a couple of years ago, and it was one of the first new legislations that they announced when they got into power 2006. It's been under debateand scrutiny in media and several governmental instances since then.
Secondly: FRA is _not_ a military organization. It's a civil autority that can be used for several other governmental organizations such as the police, secret police, military or even state owned corporations. But the name is confusing, I grant you that.
One interessting thing is that FRA operates the fifth fastest computer on the Top500 list. Most people believe that is was purchased to meet the need of this new surveillance demand.
It's hardly unknown to the public, even if most are not interessted in such matters. Swedes are pretty used to governmental control and oversight, and we acually enjoy the benefits of it. Our trust in authoroty of this kind is strong since it have served us well in the past.
Please elaborate. I'm not fluent in DNA-lingo, but it sure looked scientific and therefor interessting. Can we please get the digest translation into lay English?
Apple have never promised 64-bit Carbon. Everything that's in developer seeds are subject to change. As far as I can tell Apple didn't make the decision to drop 64-bit Carbon until about same time as WWDC'07, so Adobe and everyone else, including many developers inside Apple, found out at the same time. Adobe are going to migrate to Cocoa at some time or another, and it will be in everyone's best interesst to do it sooner rather than later. Adobe is lazy and they've shown it time after time.. just watch their poor support for OSX in the beginning and Universal Binaries. They promosed to be the first, but they were the last..
Seriously? This is not insightful, this is retarded. There isn't supposed to be any at all! There are currently only one way to legitemately distribute applicaitons for the iPhone, and that is if it comes bundled with it. The SDK will allow distribution through the second way, namely the App Store and it won't be online for many months. If anyone had asked me, I'd say that one legit third party app is exactly one too many at this stage. I'm really surprised that there are any at all since there isn't any legit way of distributing them, and no legit way to have it installed on an iPhone.
Maybe I'm confused. I thought the little motto up top said "News for Nerds. Stuff that MATTERS." Who cares about this?
I care. Not so much in the context of Rails, Ruby or Mongrel, but in the context of being an employee in the IT business. Working in teams, working with excentric individuals, stupid bosses, geniuses, hacks, nice but incompetent, obnoxious but blazingly creative, hard working average joes, brilliant slackers. All this is what we all meet every day. It's great to hear these stories, since we all can relate to them, pehaps come to terms with our own failings and forgive the failings in others.
I feel for Zed, I really do. It seems to me that he's one guy who've been screwed one too many times, and breaking down is just too common under such circumstances. People skills, yeah. He might not have them, but reading a story like this makes me more proficient in that department. So.. I think it matters. It matters a lot. To me. To us all.
Yeah! I was about th write the same. We saw movies on this in high school (when we learned about wave forms) and I've actually have done some calculations on these types of problems myself when I got to the University.
I think you fint the answer in that same article. It's being field tested and is not incorporated in the higher level APIs like Cocoa or Carbon. Yet. Apple isn't an army of developers that can implement every possible feature with no effort. Be patient, young grasshopper.
Hardly! ZFS have provisions for any number of "forks" in the file system, called "extended attributes" in ZFS. If Apple migrates to ZFS they have every chanse to use these attributes to provide for quite a seamless integration with previous filsystems. The file system is open source and Apple can prettymuch do what they like or need. Even NTFS have these features but MS seems to ignore them due to backwards compatability issues with FAT filsystems and Windows APIs
esc - Apple doesn't define any specific use for this key. It's under-utilized afaik. delete - Apple doesn't define any other use of this key besides removing the character to the right. Backspace is another matter, and it have a very consistent use. cursor key - what key is this? I can't find it on my MacBook Pro and I havn't seen it on any Mac ever. Front Row key - what key is this? Have you even seen a MacBook Pro? eject - it's positioned prominently on almost any device which has one.
What important keys do you miss at the edges? The ctrl-alt-del key? Oh wait.. just cram in 20 multimedia/internet-keys with nonstandard symbols on crowding the keyboard. Ahh.. UI bliss!
Concerning the spinning beachball.. a spinning clock or an hourglass is more informative? Perhaps a dialog should appear each time a application doesn't answer for 2-3 seconds? Or better yet, produce a Wizard guiding the user through a diagnostics process. Well no. I think the big issue here is to fix whatever causes the applications to produce the beachball, not the beachball itself.
A good user interface does not just look good but it behaves good, the positioning of controls, orderig of menues, behaviour in execution and, choice of language in describing functions and so forth are perhaps more important. Safari, Mail and iTunes behaves very consistently even if they might look somewhat different.
This is why Windows ports and many Java-applications get the cold hand from Mac users. They might look like Mac applications at first glance. The have all the right graphics in all the right places and they might even have a nice icon (but they rarely do), but they usually behave quite differently. Dialogs that pop up in unusual places, ordering of controls, unfamiliar language, exotic install procedures, strange toolbars, Window behavior that's odd and menuers that doesn't contain what one would expect. Everything that might excite a Windows user but makes a Mac user get on the defensive immediately.
It's not just "look" it's even more the "feel". Mail, iTunes and Safari feel the same.
This cuts both ways.. iTunes and QuickTime Player does not behave like Windows applications.. and that's propably one very powerful reason why these applications are shunned to a large extent.
Exactly! It's not Gates or Steve Jobs's fault that we are stuck with DRAm, it's the content owners fault. Apple and Microsoft are doing business largely on the terms stated by the content owners. If it were up to MS or Apple.. there would probably not be any DRM protection in their products. It just complicates matters, stifles innovation and adaptation.. very much an image that Apple and Microsoft strive to get away from, but if they want to commercialize an idea they have to obey the demands of the suppliers.. at least to some extent.
The market in Sweden is not that regulated and we could tell you that it's the former State Monopoly that holdning the brakes. They are refusing access to telephone stations, they are keeping the prices up, they are the last to implement just about anything (cable, dsl, wireless, fibre, GSM, 3G, and so forth). They are more expensive and offer less flexible terms. The only redeeming factor is that they are large, and have much larger coverage of the population.. They still have monopoly to "the last mile" out in the less densly populated areas, and in the suburbs of the larger cities, and the adoption of broadband are considerably slower in these areas. This would seem quite strange since it's wehere the richest people live and those in the most need of fast Internet access, but it's due to the fact that independant companies doesn't have access to this market, the former Monopoly does.
However.. I must say, after RTFA that Sweden is _miles_ ahead of most countries, even our close naighbours, Denmark and Norway. I would've guessed that they would have been in front of us, but they're not. I cant say why really. We've had some pretty vocal individuals/visionaries in the late 90s who really have set the stnadard of the market an made policy. 100 Mbps for everyone is the goal. Perhaps this was a necessity?
I really hope you've not been looking at IA64-processors since they go by the moniker "Itanium" and isn't very compatible with x86-processors and are incredibly expensive. I thing you are referring to x86-64, EM64T or IA-32e.. ie the 64-bit version of Intel's common processors, Pentium, Celeron, Xeon, Core Duo and so forth.
Mac uses have gotten used to the authorization of petty procedures by now but it was a real nuisance in the beginning, some five years ago. Software developers have gotten used to it also and have written better installers that don't require multiple instances of authorization, or any at all, installers that installs in non restricted areas and so forth. I think these issues will pass with time for Vista users too. In the mean time, they really shoud take joy in the fact that malware will be increasingly scarce on the platform.
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It's "Pentium class", not "Pentium". I would bet my money on this comptuer being PowerPC based, probably PowerPC 74xx based, also known as "G4" of Macintosh fame. There are _a_lot_ of PowerPC based avionics, and cutting edge airplanes like Eurofighter, Gripen and F-22 have multiple PowerPC based systems doing all kinds of stuff. When doing embedded electronics for the military you are not going far pitching Intel stuff. You are going to use hardware from manufacturers that can guarantee parts that'll keep being manufactured over many years and are harndened to endure rapid heat, cold, moist and preassure fluctuations. Intel are doing commodity products for low end table environments. Look to manufacturers like Freescale for the stable and durable stuff.
Yeah :)
Well.. what is naughty about being naughty then? It usually doesn't breaking any laws just doing something fun which happens to be frowned upon or is breaking some taboo, i.e. value judgement that harms no one. Delightful!
..or more correctly: 1 Petalops. Can't leave the trailing "s" out, it stands for "second". "Floating point operations per" doesn't mean much.
The L in Blue Gene/L stands for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, the site for the first installment.
The P in Blue Gene/P stands for "Petaflops", the target performace
The Q in Blue Gene/Q is probably just the letter after P
The C in Blue Gene/C stands for "cellular computing", now renamed Cyclops64.
I got this exact result to. 10.5.3/Intel, ARD activated.
Such as a personal ID number. It's hard to find swedes that doesn't belive that it's a good thing. A national medical journal database is wanted, and having this connected to the database with prescriptions. Automated tax declatations are quite enjoyed too. There are more things that most Sweds enjoy: automated enrollment into schools, child benefits, state funded mandatory vaccinations and dental care.
I certainly doesn't speak for ALL Swedes but for the sake of argument, I'm speaking for most. I'm quite sure of that.
First: As one living in Sweden I don't recognize this description. For one, there is quite a stir in IT related, and mainstream media about this. And this have been going on for several years. The current government suggested this while in opposition a couple of years ago, and it was one of the first new legislations that they announced when they got into power 2006. It's been under debateand scrutiny in media and several governmental instances since then.
Secondly: FRA is _not_ a military organization. It's a civil autority that can be used for several other governmental organizations such as the police, secret police, military or even state owned corporations. But the name is confusing, I grant you that.
One interessting thing is that FRA operates the fifth fastest computer on the Top500 list. Most people believe that is was purchased to meet the need of this new surveillance demand.
It's hardly unknown to the public, even if most are not interessted in such matters. Swedes are pretty used to governmental control and oversight, and we acually enjoy the benefits of it. Our trust in authoroty of this kind is strong since it have served us well in the past.
Please elaborate. I'm not fluent in DNA-lingo, but it sure looked scientific and therefor interessting. Can we please get the digest translation into lay English?
Apple have never promised 64-bit Carbon. Everything that's in developer seeds are subject to change. As far as I can tell Apple didn't make the decision to drop 64-bit Carbon until about same time as WWDC'07, so Adobe and everyone else, including many developers inside Apple, found out at the same time. Adobe are going to migrate to Cocoa at some time or another, and it will be in everyone's best interesst to do it sooner rather than later. Adobe is lazy and they've shown it time after time.. just watch their poor support for OSX in the beginning and Universal Binaries. They promosed to be the first, but they were the last..
Seriously? This is not insightful, this is retarded. There isn't supposed to be any at all! There are currently only one way to legitemately distribute applicaitons for the iPhone, and that is if it comes bundled with it. The SDK will allow distribution through the second way, namely the App Store and it won't be online for many months. If anyone had asked me, I'd say that one legit third party app is exactly one too many at this stage. I'm really surprised that there are any at all since there isn't any legit way of distributing them, and no legit way to have it installed on an iPhone.
Maybe I'm confused. I thought the little motto up top said "News for Nerds. Stuff that MATTERS." Who cares about this?
I care. Not so much in the context of Rails, Ruby or Mongrel, but in the context of being an employee in the IT business. Working in teams, working with excentric individuals, stupid bosses, geniuses, hacks, nice but incompetent, obnoxious but blazingly creative, hard working average joes, brilliant slackers. All this is what we all meet every day. It's great to hear these stories, since we all can relate to them, pehaps come to terms with our own failings and forgive the failings in others.
I feel for Zed, I really do. It seems to me that he's one guy who've been screwed one too many times, and breaking down is just too common under such circumstances. People skills, yeah. He might not have them, but reading a story like this makes me more proficient in that department. So.. I think it matters. It matters a lot. To me. To us all.
Yeah! I was about th write the same. We saw movies on this in high school (when we learned about wave forms) and I've actually have done some calculations on these types of problems myself when I got to the University.
I think you fint the answer in that same article. It's being field tested and is not incorporated in the higher level APIs like Cocoa or Carbon. Yet. Apple isn't an army of developers that can implement every possible feature with no effort. Be patient, young grasshopper.
Hardly! ZFS have provisions for any number of "forks" in the file system, called "extended attributes" in ZFS. If Apple migrates to ZFS they have every chanse to use these attributes to provide for quite a seamless integration with previous filsystems. The file system is open source and Apple can prettymuch do what they like or need. Even NTFS have these features but MS seems to ignore them due to backwards compatability issues with FAT filsystems and Windows APIs
You know.. Wikipedia is very handy to look these things up. Please do. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZFS
Yeah. I read it on the Internet so it must be true!
Haha! The funniest I've read all day. Brilliant! Using the Cewbacca Defence: Wikipedia-link
Have Apple sued a whistleblower or someone who have reported a security issue. EVER?
Or is the parent just full of lies, FUD and other unpleasant and damaging stuff?
esc - Apple doesn't define any specific use for this key. It's under-utilized afaik.
delete - Apple doesn't define any other use of this key besides removing the character to the right. Backspace is another matter, and it have a very consistent use.
cursor key - what key is this? I can't find it on my MacBook Pro and I havn't seen it on any Mac ever.
Front Row key - what key is this? Have you even seen a MacBook Pro?
eject - it's positioned prominently on almost any device which has one.
What important keys do you miss at the edges? The ctrl-alt-del key?
Oh wait.. just cram in 20 multimedia/internet-keys with nonstandard symbols on
crowding the keyboard. Ahh.. UI bliss!
Concerning the spinning beachball.. a spinning clock or an hourglass is more informative? Perhaps a dialog should appear each time a application doesn't answer for 2-3 seconds? Or better yet, produce a Wizard guiding the user through a diagnostics process. Well no. I think the big issue here is to fix whatever causes the applications to produce the beachball, not the beachball itself.
A good user interface does not just look good but it behaves good, the positioning of controls, orderig of menues, behaviour in execution and, choice of language in describing functions and so forth are perhaps more important. Safari, Mail and iTunes behaves very consistently even if they might look somewhat different.
This is why Windows ports and many Java-applications get the cold hand from Mac users. They might look like Mac applications at first glance. The have all the right graphics in all the right places and they might even have a nice icon (but they rarely do), but they usually behave quite differently. Dialogs that pop up in unusual places, ordering of controls, unfamiliar language, exotic install procedures, strange toolbars, Window behavior that's odd and menuers that doesn't contain what one would expect. Everything that might excite a Windows user but makes a Mac user get on the defensive immediately.
It's not just "look" it's even more the "feel". Mail, iTunes and Safari feel the same.
This cuts both ways.. iTunes and QuickTime Player does not behave like Windows applications.. and that's propably one very powerful reason why these applications are shunned to a large extent.
Exactly! It's not Gates or Steve Jobs's fault that we are stuck with DRAm, it's the content owners fault. Apple and Microsoft are doing business largely on the terms stated by the content owners. If it were up to MS or Apple.. there would probably not be any DRM protection in their products. It just complicates matters, stifles innovation and adaptation.. very much an image that Apple and Microsoft strive to get away from, but if they want to commercialize an idea they have to obey the demands of the suppliers.. at least to some extent.
The market in Sweden is not that regulated and we could tell you that it's the former State Monopoly that holdning the brakes. They are refusing access to telephone stations, they are keeping the prices up, they are the last to implement just about anything (cable, dsl, wireless, fibre, GSM, 3G, and so forth). They are more expensive and offer less flexible terms. The only redeeming factor is that they are large, and have much larger coverage of the population.. They still have monopoly to "the last mile" out in the less densly populated areas, and in the suburbs of the larger cities, and the adoption of broadband are considerably slower in these areas. This would seem quite strange since it's wehere the richest people live and those in the most need of fast Internet access, but it's due to the fact that independant companies doesn't have access to this market, the former Monopoly does.
However.. I must say, after RTFA that Sweden is _miles_ ahead of most countries, even our close naighbours, Denmark and Norway. I would've guessed that they would have been in front of us, but they're not. I cant say why really. We've had some pretty vocal individuals/visionaries in the late 90s who really have set the stnadard of the market an made policy. 100 Mbps for everyone is the goal. Perhaps this was a necessity?
And this one day before Apple reveals features of Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard? What are the odds?
I really hope you've not been looking at IA64-processors since they go by the moniker "Itanium" and isn't very compatible with x86-processors and are incredibly expensive. I thing you are referring to x86-64, EM64T or IA-32e.. ie the 64-bit version of Intel's common processors, Pentium, Celeron, Xeon, Core Duo and so forth.
Mac uses have gotten used to the authorization of petty procedures by now but it was a real nuisance in the beginning, some five years ago. Software developers have gotten used to it also and have written better installers that don't require multiple instances of authorization, or any at all, installers that installs in non restricted areas and so forth. I think these issues will pass with time for Vista users too. In the mean time, they really shoud take joy in the fact that malware will be increasingly scarce on the platform.