Think big please. Hundreds of thousands of threads, is not enough, we need millions, thousads of millions of threads.
The only way to get to this level is changing hardware. Current computers, are big memory pools with a single (logical) execution unit, that's the fault.
We need to build thousands of simpler executions units, and parallelization will be a real issue. Switching threads/process is not the answer.
On the software front, two musts for a new languaje: a) it should be 'aspect oriented' (flexible interception). b) automatic paralelization extracted at compile time from objects sets analisys.
Maybe MS is one of the best assets OSS has.
Without the stronghold MS puts on software industry, would software creativity found his way thru OSS?
Maybe if MS doesn't exist we should create one... just to keep things interesting..:)
I think MS is the real winner from those 'decissions'.
1 RH is not going to promote his desktop line.
2 Suse is going to try to use Mono as the underlying glue for the desktop.
3 MS gains access to Linux desktops.
4 EEE
Bad new for linux sirs, bad news.
I am not so skeptical about 'human' inteligence being so dificult to reproduce by mechanical means.
As Turing pointed out, inteligence (in a practical sense) is more about 'behaviour' than 'nature'. Unfourtunatelly, Turing's work was left when hi died. But his ideas are still a very good approach at this kind of problem.
If Turing's P & N machines idea were accepted, instead of a excedingly fast single cpu, our computers were build by millions of simple processors.
There's NO WAY to specify what's music or not for digital content.
A digital file is just (and nothing more than) a NUMBER. Pretending number 123456 to be a song or a image or any other thing is just a (silly?/useful?) convention.
Digital formats are just arithmetic properties that defines families of numbers. Any number can be converted to any other by an infinite number of functions.
Yes it is rediculous to pretend to restrict what can or can not be done with a number, but it's not ridiculous to protect the process/investment (non digital content) that leads to find a new usage for that number.
If someone says that under a NDA you can't distribute number '32', you can simply distribute the number '16' twice.
Any binary content (read 'file') is just and only a number.
It's ridiculous to declare illegal to analize a given number because it can be viewed as a program (.dll), or pretend that a number cannot be copied because it can be processed as a song (.mp3).
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As a fellow said :EOP, That's what we do, Error Oriented Programming, all day long!.
You know, to decide to program is always the first error.. and so on.. (Murphy).
What's in a sig?
What happened to the concept of a free market?
Gone with the monopoly, sire! :)
What's in a sig?Summerians already know Mars was a water planet.
What's in a sig?There's no heart based twin Spirit(s) to synchronize and debug?
What's in a Sig?
Think big please. Hundreds of thousands of threads, is not enough, we need millions, thousads of millions of threads.
The only way to get to this level is changing hardware. Current computers, are big memory pools with a single (logical) execution unit, that's the fault.
We need to build thousands of simpler executions units, and parallelization will be a real issue. Switching threads/process is not the answer.
On the software front, two musts for a new languaje: a) it should be 'aspect oriented' (flexible interception). b) automatic paralelization extracted at compile time from objects sets analisys.
Next sig please..
Repeat with me: Propaganda!
Fourtunatelly this whole thing will not be built. Try to imagine the last spanish high speed train fiasco ported to this level. Scary!
What's in a Sig?
Maybe MS is one of the best assets OSS has. Without the stronghold MS puts on software industry, would software creativity found his way thru OSS? Maybe if MS doesn't exist we should create one... just to keep things interesting.. :)
Modded Sigs cleans Karma
Penguin Wars at his funiiest way.
Already done but forgotten: Egyptian hieroglyphs
What's in a Sig ??
Plato taught that knowledge is universal and eternal, and that the illusion of learning is in fact the loss of amnesia.
And the only way to know-it is to remember it :)
Sig ??
Let's not forget a classic: Intelligent Machinery (1948)
Modded Sigs afects Karma
Mandrake is now the first european linux distribution.
Moding Karmik Sigs
I think MS is the real winner from those 'decissions'.
1 RH is not going to promote his desktop line.
2 Suse is going to try to use Mono as the underlying glue for the desktop.
3 MS gains access to Linux desktops.
4 EEE
Bad new for linux sirs, bad news.
Sigs ?? Mods ?? Karmas ??
With RH & Suse trapped into money sinks, I can only say: Go Mandrake!
Sigs ?? Mods ?? Karma ??
Great! now that we have a fair user base, just stop free support. Fantastic! I thought Free Software based companies knew better about his own users.
What's suppoused to happen with free ISO images for incomingt RH versions?
Sigs ?? Karma ?? Mods ??
Maybe USPTO should consult W3C stall routinelly on internet related patents.
That way some of this non sense could be avoided.
Sigs ?? Karma ??
The best thing about this, is that the generator/collector has no moving parts, and is higjly scalable.
Sigs?? Karma??
I am not so skeptical about 'human' inteligence being so dificult to reproduce by mechanical means.
As Turing pointed out, inteligence (in a practical sense) is more about 'behaviour' than 'nature'. Unfourtunatelly, Turing's work was left when hi died. But his ideas are still a very good approach at this kind of problem.
If Turing's P & N machines idea were accepted, instead of a excedingly fast single cpu, our computers were build by millions of simple processors.
10.000.000$ vs 25.000$
Beautiful.
Sig? Katma??
There's NO WAY to specify what's music or not for digital content.
A digital file is just (and nothing more than) a NUMBER. Pretending number 123456 to be a song or a image or any other thing is just a (silly?/useful?) convention.
Digital formats are just arithmetic properties that defines families of numbers. Any number can be converted to any other by an infinite number of functions.
The in-memory master behaviour described in the paper ressembles a lot the Prevayler software.
Programs are also pure math expressions.
Imagine someone trying to patent '2+2=4', beautiful.
So sad, so true. But is good to remember that being real doesn't meant being good.
Yes it is rediculous to pretend to restrict what can or can not be done with a number, but it's not ridiculous to protect the process/investment (non digital content) that leads to find a new usage for that number.
If someone says that under a NDA you can't distribute number '32', you can simply distribute the number '16' twice.
See? Non sense, pure non sense.
Any binary content (read 'file') is just and only a number.
It's ridiculous to declare illegal to analize a given number because it can be viewed as a program (.dll), or pretend that a number cannot be copied because it can be processed as a song (.mp3).
No sense rules are void by definition.