It seems to me that you'd only have to boot the very core features and just load the rest off the memory dump on the drive as you need them, as opposed to reading the whole thing on startup.
That's what demand paging is for. Any modern operating system with virtual memory should be able to do that.
Nothing but full speed static RAM. Yum. Using what the rest of us would call L1 cache as main memory. Now THAT had some throughput. I think the research ought to go into making this more economical
Um...any efforts at making SRAM more economical would have the side effect of making DRAM more economical. Each SRAM bit is implemented with 4-6 transistors of different types, whereas each DRAM bit is implemented with one n-type MOSFET. That's a huge decrease in size, and is why people put up with awkward timing schemes, address strobes, and pesky refreshes to use DRAM.
According to Palm's site, the dimensions (wlh and weight) of the m100 are exactly the same as the Palm V and Vx. That in and of itself makes it attractive.
Yeah, I thought so too. It was a big typo. Check the specs link for the actual size, more like a Palm III.
I would vote for teaching something like Perl or Java as well.
err...I don't think something like PERL is good until you've already been entrenched in Unix culture. not to mention the horrible code that will be inevitably written...
> Do you ever criticize movies or books or music? > If you're so interested, you better be diving in and making your own!
I think the word you're looking for is 'critique'. Criticism adds no value whatsoever, isn't constructive, and doesn't help anyone.
I'm quite sure you don't appreciate the criticism from your users, whom you assume don't know what goes into your work.
Such is the case with OSS. Developers are already inundated with bug reports and such. If you want to help, try writing documentation or something. Or write some install scripts.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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> when you know how to do basic things to it. Not > to mention pride of ability. So for those same > men/women out there who can change their
pride of ability? puh-leeze. at least half of all CS-majors nowadays are in it for the money.
anyhow, most people can't even program their vcr. if you study technology's history, you'll find that there's always been a huge difference between "experts" and "users".
> I Agree with the guy who said that users should > take basic computer classes, and agree that > porgrammers should take classes to know what > the effing hardware they are interfacing with
I don't think you read the article correctly. The article refers to a 70nm process (i.e. gate length = 70nm, lambda = 35nm). The thickness of the gate oxide is 15 Angstroms, or approximately 1/40th of 70nm. yow!
I see no reason at all for kids that aren't yet in high school to have computers. People must first learn basics, and then learn how to learn, before being presented with fancy tools to get the job done. Imagine learning calculus before algebra.
> Student-written notes (as in the Cornell University fiasco) should be copyright the student.
Any fiasco in particular? There's a commercial note-taking service called TakeNote; I think they have a partnership with our campus store, because there's a TakeNote kiosk in the store.
Or are you referring to the Intel fiasco? For those of you not familiar, out-of-order execution (or something related to it) was invented here at Cornell. One of the EE prof's, H.C. Torng (a bitter, bitter prof) discussed the idea in lecture in one of his classes. One of his students went to Intel and took Torng's (original) idea with him. Who's IP was it? The student's, or the prof's? Intel used this information without permission of the prof--and made LOTS of money. Only afterwards did they acknowledge the source of this new technology.
There are plently of GPL clients out there. As for client and servers, you have Jabber out there.
The amount of horsepower it'd take to power messenging servers probably differs with the kind of service you provide. Something like AIM is little more than IRC. I don't remember if the client polls for "buddies" or if one of the oscar servers notifies the client.
ICQ, on the other hand, stores everyone's information on their servers, including messages. The amount of power for their servers may be less because messages generally transfer directly from user to user ala DCC chat on irc.
As for a propriety clients with ads, haven't you seen AIM since 1998 or whenever? They've always had ads. To take the ads out, edit NETWAIT.ODL and comment out the lines that say load_ocm advert. Voila!
* specific, written prior permission, and that no fee is charged for further * distribution of this software, or any modifications thereof. The copyright
You're not really paying for the software. In the old days of shareware when you could buy disks w/ Duke Nukem or whatever (2400 was slow), the ASP allows distributors to charge for the media.
This is what commercial Linux distros do. They charge for the media and the support. RedHat is NOT charging you for hextris. Assuming that hextris or cxhextris is on ftp.redhat.com for free download, they CANNOT charge you for it. The economics wouldn't work out; who would pay for it then?
So what are you paying for when you buy a Linux distro in a store? Everything that's not in the downloadable version.
I don't know what you're thinking of, but the open source in this case seems to be Register Transfer Level designs, which just specifies where data goes and when. I don't think Sun is going to release the masks used...
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That's what demand paging is for. Any modern operating system with virtual memory should be able to do that.
Um...any efforts at making SRAM more economical would have the side effect of making DRAM more economical. Each SRAM bit is implemented with 4-6 transistors of different types, whereas each DRAM bit is implemented with one n-type MOSFET. That's a huge decrease in size, and is why people put up with awkward timing schemes, address strobes, and pesky refreshes to use DRAM.
According to Palm's site, the dimensions (wlh and weight) of the m100 are exactly the same as the Palm V and Vx. That in and of itself makes it attractive.
Yeah, I thought so too. It was a big typo. Check the specs link for the actual size, more like a Palm III.
err...I don't think something like PERL is good until you've already been entrenched in Unix culture. not to mention the horrible code that will be inevitably written...
Ahh...one of the fundamental reasons why people have been advocating OSS all along (open source, not Open Sound System).
> Do you ever criticize movies or books or music?
> If you're so interested, you better be diving in and making your own!
I think the word you're looking for is 'critique'. Criticism adds no value whatsoever, isn't constructive, and doesn't help anyone.
I'm quite sure you don't appreciate the criticism from your users, whom you assume don't know what goes into your work.
Such is the case with OSS. Developers are already inundated with bug reports and such. If you want to help, try writing documentation or something. Or write some install scripts.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
> when you know how to do basic things to it. Not
> to mention pride of ability. So for those same
> men/women out there who can change their
pride of ability? puh-leeze. at least half of all CS-majors nowadays are in it for the money.
anyhow, most people can't even program their vcr. if you study technology's history, you'll find that there's always been a huge difference between "experts" and "users".
> I Agree with the guy who said that users should
> take basic computer classes, and agree that
> porgrammers should take classes to know what
> the effing hardware they are interfacing with
grammar is ok, spelling...no so ok.
I don't think you read the article correctly. The article refers to a 70nm process (i.e. gate length = 70nm, lambda = 35nm). The thickness of the gate oxide is 15 Angstroms, or approximately 1/40th of 70nm. yow!
Isn't that new math?
> Student-written notes (as in the Cornell University fiasco) should be copyright the student.
. bs.html
Any fiasco in particular? There's a commercial note-taking service called TakeNote; I think they have a partnership with our campus store, because there's a TakeNote kiosk in the store.
Or are you referring to the Intel fiasco? For those of you not familiar, out-of-order execution (or something related to it) was invented here at Cornell. One of the EE prof's, H.C. Torng (a bitter, bitter prof) discussed the idea in lecture in one of his classes. One of his students went to Intel and took Torng's (original) idea with him. Who's IP was it? The student's, or the prof's?
Intel used this information without permission of the prof--and made LOTS of money. Only afterwards did they acknowledge the source of this new technology.
http://www.news.cornell.edu/science/Dec97/Torng
Wow. I remember the good ol' days when people backed up their hard disks onto floppies. These days, I back up my floppies onto my HD :D
His name is Robert Paulson.
Probably not. You can usually fix the problem by recompiling all your programs with new system headers.
Civil rights kick ass :D
:D
One of my teachers (Ms. S) at Stuyvesant High School in NY would let people sign their own absence notes if they were 18+.
OTOH, we can cut classes all we want in college anyway
As for client and servers, you have Jabber out there.
The amount of horsepower it'd take to power messenging servers probably differs with the kind of service you provide. Something like AIM is little more than IRC. I don't remember if the client polls for "buddies" or if one of the oscar servers notifies the client.
ICQ, on the other hand, stores everyone's information on their servers, including messages. The amount of power for their servers may be less because messages generally transfer directly from user to user ala DCC chat on irc.
As for a propriety clients with ads, haven't you seen AIM since 1998 or whenever? They've always had ads. To take the ads out, edit NETWAIT.ODL and comment out the lines that say load_ocm advert. Voila!
* specific, written prior permission, and that no fee is charged for further
* distribution of this software, or any modifications thereof. The copyright
You're not really paying for the software. In the old days of shareware when you could buy disks w/ Duke Nukem or whatever (2400 was slow), the ASP allows distributors to charge for the media.
This is what commercial Linux distros do. They charge for the media and the support. RedHat is NOT charging you for hextris. Assuming that hextris or cxhextris is on ftp.redhat.com for free download, they CANNOT charge you for it. The economics wouldn't work out; who would pay for it then?
So what are you paying for when you buy a Linux distro in a store? Everything that's not in the downloadable version.
If only we could recompile Windows kernels for ourselves. Then we could enable only those options we need!
Anyone use a VISCA VCR w/ their 'puter?
I wonder if the compile would work though.
Wow. Sounds like a great httpd, I'm surprised AOL turned that out. :D
Oh wait. AOL bought it.
I don't know what you're thinking of, but the open source in this case seems to be Register Transfer Level designs, which just specifies where data goes and when. I don't think Sun is going to release the masks used...