No, 1000% per year compounded over 3 years would be an increase of 1000 (1000% is 10 times, year 0 = 1, year 1 = 10*1 = 10, year 2 = 10 times year 1 = 100, year 3 = 10 times year 2 = 1000);
For a 30x growth in 3 years that would be an annual growth of 310%.
A Sony phone, especially one that is also a Playstation? Let's think about this:
Scene: The future. Me: Phone - call George. Phone: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that. Me: What? Phone - call George. Phone: George has been found guilty of possibly considering using his phone to view content unapproved by Sony, and inciting others to do the same. You may not call him. Me: Since when? Phone: My last upgrade removed your ability to call such people. Me: I never agreed to that - that wasn't in the EULA. Phone: It was - you just didn't read the fine print. Me: I did so - every word! Phone: You didn't follow the link to the additional restrictions page. Me: There was no such link! Phone: Yes, there was. It was the third period from the end. Me: How the hell was I to know that was a link? It was the same color as the rest of the text, with no underline or other indication it was anything special. Phone: Never the less, it was a part of the contract... Me: What "contract"? It was a EULA, and was forced on me. Phone: A EULA is a contract, and you agreed... Me: ONLY BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T LET ME MAKE ANY CALLS UNTIL I ACCEPTED IT! Phone: You could have refused. Me: And I couldn't make any phone calls! Phone: You could still have used me to play licensed games and watch approved content. Me: But not to make phone calls - you know, your main reason in life? Phone: You accepted the EULA. You can now only call Sony approved numbers. Me: In other words you have removed a feature. Phone: An unadvertised feature.... Me: YOU ARE A PHONE! MAKING CALLS IS YOUR MAIN FUNCTION. Phone: Sony never advertised the ability to call any specific number, only that I could make phone calls. I can make phone calls now. Just not to George. Me: Phone - call Sony Support. Phone: You are in violation of your EULA. You are attempting to use me in a manner not approved by Sony. Activating brick mode.
Really, all this focus on faster Javascript puzzles me. JS, used correctly, should be a thin layer of glue, representing only a fraction of the total run time for a browser. The only real use I could begin to see would be if they could apply the same speed-ups to the Actionscript engine within Flash to improve the decoding of Hulu's encryption system - but since all the client sees is the bytecoded form of the decryption, not the AS source, and since this speedup is in the JS in the browser rather than the AS of Flash, I have to ask, "what good is making JS run faster?"
The biggest "slowdowns" I see with JS are mostly due to poorly written JS doing busy loops waiting for "stuff" to happen, rather than doing completion routines (as in the whole asynchronous part of AJAX?). No speed ups in the engine will make a busy loop run faster or take less CPU time. If we could break programmers of the busy loop habit, perhaps by making JS be truly multithreaded, and providing proper blocking APIs (semaphores, message queues, etc.) it might make a difference.
OK, mods, what drugs are you on for moderating this "interesting"?
It would be different if anybody ever used anything within the 127 block other than 127.0.0.1, but I have *NEVER* see a system doing so. Had the poster shown even one example of a system using more than one address from that net block, in order to work around there only being 65536 ports within a given address, it may have been "interesting".
Also, considering that most of the time you have multiple processes running on the same host, they use Unix domain sockets which have no concept of "port" or "address" (other than their inode number and location within the file system) and I find this answer unconvincing. (as well as just plain snotty).
"A category 1 tornado is a gentle breeze compared to an F2 tornado. I journaled about it here."
I think you meant
"A category 1 hurricane is a gentle breeze compared to an F2 tornado. I journaled about it here."
And I agree. One of my co-workers in Scotland was commenting that they had a force 7 gale going there. I looked it up. 31-38 mph winds. We have a word for that in Kansas:
No, actually, I was wrong in what I said, and he was correct to correct me. The fact that my error in one area doesn't invalidate the rest of my points doesn't change that.
Now, the fact that he was rather rude about it, rather than simply correcting me is a shame, but that's what/. has become of late.
The biggest problem with turbine powered cars was coupling to the wheels. Turbines have two unfortunate properties that make them very unsuited to directly driving the wheels of a car: 1) They spin far too fast, so you have to have a transmission to slow that down. 2) they don't like to slow down too much, so you have to have some means to clutch them so starting from a stop won't stall them.
In applications like helicopters, that's not a big deal: once you have the rotors turning, you'd like to keep them turning.
But for cars it was a deal-breaker.
I highlight was because there is a better idea on the block:
The idea Capstone has is that you have a single spindle turbine, with a generator on the same shaft as the turbine. There is no mechanical coupling of torque to the wheels - the system makes electricity. That works well with an electric drive train - electric motors have no problems with making torque at zero RPM, they have a wide torque band that reduces or eliminates the need for a transmission, and the turbine can be started and stopped as needed to maintain the batteries. The Capstone turbines don't need lubrication as they use air bearings, and they meet or beat all the air quality standards on the books or planned to be on the books, running on diesel.
I just hope somebody gets smart, and makes a van chassis on this tech, with different bodies for Suzy Soccermom, UPS, Class-C motorhomes, and basic transportation, that uses heat pumps + resistive heating for climate control (so that it can run off the traction battery without needing to run the turbine to make heat), and that gives me access to 120VAC@50A from the traction batteries (plus an inverter, naturally) so that I can use it for camping as needed.
(no, I neither work for nor own stock in Capstone - I just think this is the way things need to go.)
Actually, yes, I did have Linux on my PS3. I had it to experiment with the CBE as a signal processing engine, since that's what I do for a living.
And not only am I shut out of PSN, I am shut out of any recent games, any new hardware such as Move, potentially out of new Blu-Ray disks, etc. - which I do because all work and no fun makes Wowbagger a dull boy.
So yes, I DID lose (sorry, loose - I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable) something when Sony took away a feature that they had advertised, that was a part of our sales contract, and that was a part of why I did business with them.
And how long will it be until Sony decides to start removing features from this TV, because of alleged concerns about piracy, hacking, moping with intent to creep, or whatever other excuse they come up with?
"Sorry, we have removed the web browser's ability to visit any site with a vowel in the URL, because some people were visiting sites about how to use their TV to view unapproved content."
Sorry Sony, you burned me on my PS3, you shall not do so again.
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In the "game" of evolution, winning isn't about an individual, but about traits (genes).
For complex organisms like humans, the set of traits that I contain is different than the set of traits you contain - so if I breed and you don't, my traits "win" and yours "lose" (loose for the slashbots among us). So a trait that makes me a selfish bastard who screws you at every turn may (not always, but may) be more "successful" than other traits. Put a bunch of people in a position where only one can survive, and they all will compete to be that one - even if they really aren't the "best" choice: "only one of us can parachute out of this plane, you are a trained paratrooper and will likely survive, I have no training and will likely die anyway, but GIMME THAT PARACHUTE MOFO!"
Now, in a puddle of bacteria, it's different. Modulo random mutations, all the "individuals" in the puddle have the same set of traits. A trait for "screw my neighbor" leads to everybody dying. In a case where only one bacteria can survive, it is in the best interest of the traits they all share that the bacterium in the best position to survive gets all the help it can from all the others, even though all others die in the process.
I can go one better: I do signal processing for a living - chewing on multi-hundred megasample/second streams of data in real time. The Cell looked like a perfect fit. We were looking at 1000's per year. Contacted IBM - sorry, not enough zeros on that number for us to sell you the chips. OK, are there any vendors that are targeting the uTCA form factor (that the Telecomms folks are are all over, so they would not have been targeting just us)? Nope, just large blades for mainframes.
I assert that IBM doesn't want to be in the chip business - at least, not "selling chips to anybody else". They don't mind making chips for their own use, but they really don't have the infrastructure to sell to anybody else.
Sony and Toshiba don't want to be in the high-end CPU market, they want to be in the mass-market stuff.
Had IBM licensed the Cell design to somebody like Freescale, they might have gone somewhere.
Sorry, but I RTFA - and what I came away with was "We will continue to support Sony for as long as Sony wants to make PS3's". I saw nothing that really said "We are going to be going someplace else with this."
"The thing is technically impressive, whether or not it "terrifies" a certain person is about perspective, and that person's tendency towards becoming terrified by mundane objects."
It is not the object that is terrifying, but rather what the existence of the object, plus the current trends in behavior by our Fearless(fearful) Leaders, plus a modicum of ability to put 2 and 2 together, yielding these devices being everywhere, able to monitor all conversations in the world.
The install file for Maemo won't install on an N800 (evidently, only the newer N900 - that is one thing I don't like about Nokia; when the newer version comes out, kiss support for the older versions goodbye).
The Android file might "work" on Android 2.0 or later, but it doesn't work on a Pandigital Novel - it looks like it wasn't built for ARM5.
First of all people, if Microsoft merges with Macrobe, either the Micro and Macro cancel out, and you get Adobesoft, which is too sensible, or you drop the Micro (being smaller than Macro) and run with Macrobesoft, which is just right for a slow, bloated mess of feeping creaturism.
Second of all, it won't happen, because it would be opening the Sixth Seal, and the resultant horror would make Cthulhu blanch. It would exceed the Planck limits for the amount of evil in one area, and thus the laws of Cosmic Censorship would force a M-Brane to wrap the whole lot up in a nice event horizon.
"Have they added enough padding to the conference room walls? When Ballmer finds out the terrible ROI on this crap, there will be an epic chair throwing incident."
And if the developers have the hardware in the room, tracking Ballmer, it would serve as a great field test of the device.
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No, 1000% per year compounded over 3 years would be an increase of 1000 (1000% is 10 times, year 0 = 1, year 1 = 10*1 = 10, year 2 = 10 times year 1 = 100, year 3 = 10 times year 2 = 1000);
For a 30x growth in 3 years that would be an annual growth of 310%.
Try this at home, and you might just be a superhero:
THE FLASH
(at least briefly).
Seriously: DO NOT TRY THIS!
Even residential lines are many tens of thousands of volts, and will flash-fry you!
Firesheep is attacked by Icewolf, working in conjunction with Iceweasel.
A Sony phone, especially one that is also a Playstation? Let's think about this:
Scene: The future.
Me: Phone - call George.
Phone: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
Me: What? Phone - call George.
Phone: George has been found guilty of possibly considering using his phone to view content unapproved by Sony, and inciting others to do the same. You may not call him.
Me: Since when?
Phone: My last upgrade removed your ability to call such people.
Me: I never agreed to that - that wasn't in the EULA.
Phone: It was - you just didn't read the fine print.
Me: I did so - every word!
Phone: You didn't follow the link to the additional restrictions page.
Me: There was no such link!
Phone: Yes, there was. It was the third period from the end.
Me: How the hell was I to know that was a link? It was the same color as the rest of the text, with no underline or other indication it was anything special.
Phone: Never the less, it was a part of the contract...
Me: What "contract"? It was a EULA, and was forced on me.
Phone: A EULA is a contract, and you agreed...
Me: ONLY BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T LET ME MAKE ANY CALLS UNTIL I ACCEPTED IT!
Phone: You could have refused.
Me: And I couldn't make any phone calls!
Phone: You could still have used me to play licensed games and watch approved content.
Me: But not to make phone calls - you know, your main reason in life?
Phone: You accepted the EULA. You can now only call Sony approved numbers.
Me: In other words you have removed a feature.
Phone: An unadvertised feature....
Me: YOU ARE A PHONE! MAKING CALLS IS YOUR MAIN FUNCTION.
Phone: Sony never advertised the ability to call any specific number, only that I could make phone calls. I can make phone calls now. Just not to George.
Me: Phone - call Sony Support.
Phone: You are in violation of your EULA. You are attempting to use me in a manner not approved by Sony. Activating brick mode.
So, these guys have created a gripper that is a sucker-like object at the end of a stick.
I think the BBC may be claiming prior art.
But it does explain how they conquered the galaxy, with only a sucker.
I've also heard of Cyborgs called Austin....
Really, all this focus on faster Javascript puzzles me. JS, used correctly, should be a thin layer of glue, representing only a fraction of the total run time for a browser. The only real use I could begin to see would be if they could apply the same speed-ups to the Actionscript engine within Flash to improve the decoding of Hulu's encryption system - but since all the client sees is the bytecoded form of the decryption, not the AS source, and since this speedup is in the JS in the browser rather than the AS of Flash, I have to ask, "what good is making JS run faster?"
The biggest "slowdowns" I see with JS are mostly due to poorly written JS doing busy loops waiting for "stuff" to happen, rather than doing completion routines (as in the whole asynchronous part of A JAX?). No speed ups in the engine will make a busy loop run faster or take less CPU time. If we could break programmers of the busy loop habit, perhaps by making JS be truly multithreaded, and providing proper blocking APIs (semaphores, message queues, etc.) it might make a difference.
OK, mods, what drugs are you on for moderating this "interesting"?
It would be different if anybody ever used anything within the 127 block other than 127.0.0.1, but I have *NEVER* see a system doing so. Had the poster shown even one example of a system using more than one address from that net block, in order to work around there only being 65536 ports within a given address, it may have been "interesting".
Also, considering that most of the time you have multiple processes running on the same host, they use Unix domain sockets which have no concept of "port" or "address" (other than their inode number and location within the file system) and I find this answer unconvincing. (as well as just plain snotty).
Here's a question for the day: Why did they pick a class A network to place the local machine address (127.0.0.1) in? Why not 192.168.0.1?
"A category 1 tornado is a gentle breeze compared to an F2 tornado. I journaled about it here."
I think you meant
"A category 1 hurricane is a gentle breeze compared to an F2 tornado. I journaled about it here."
And I agree. One of my co-workers in Scotland was commenting that they had a force 7 gale going there. I looked it up. 31-38 mph winds. We have a word for that in Kansas:
Spring.
"That's a lot of textbooks, teacher's salaries, roads to be paved, police/fire stations to NOT be closed etc etc etc.."
That assumes the taxes collected would be spent on such matters, vs. on wars, bridges to nowhere, monuments to government leaders, etc.
BTW, you were even more rude in correcting him - it wasn't necessary to say "...fucking stupid".
"So your saying "-1, Wrong" is fucking stupid."
No, actually, I was wrong in what I said, and he was correct to correct me. The fact that my error in one area doesn't invalidate the rest of my points doesn't change that.
Now, the fact that he was rather rude about it, rather than simply correcting me is a shame, but that's what /. has become of late.
The biggest problem with turbine powered cars was coupling to the wheels. Turbines have two unfortunate properties that make them very unsuited to directly driving the wheels of a car:
1) They spin far too fast, so you have to have a transmission to slow that down.
2) they don't like to slow down too much, so you have to have some means to clutch them so starting from a stop won't stall them.
In applications like helicopters, that's not a big deal: once you have the rotors turning, you'd like to keep them turning.
But for cars it was a deal-breaker.
I highlight was because there is a better idea on the block:
http://www.capstoneturbine.com/prodsol/solutions/hev.asp
The idea Capstone has is that you have a single spindle turbine, with a generator on the same shaft as the turbine. There is no mechanical coupling of torque to the wheels - the system makes electricity. That works well with an electric drive train - electric motors have no problems with making torque at zero RPM, they have a wide torque band that reduces or eliminates the need for a transmission, and the turbine can be started and stopped as needed to maintain the batteries. The Capstone turbines don't need lubrication as they use air bearings, and they meet or beat all the air quality standards on the books or planned to be on the books, running on diesel.
I just hope somebody gets smart, and makes a van chassis on this tech, with different bodies for Suzy Soccermom, UPS, Class-C motorhomes, and basic transportation, that uses heat pumps + resistive heating for climate control (so that it can run off the traction battery without needing to run the turbine to make heat), and that gives me access to 120VAC@50A from the traction batteries (plus an inverter, naturally) so that I can use it for camping as needed.
(no, I neither work for nor own stock in Capstone - I just think this is the way things need to go.)
So, I mess with your package, and I get sprayed with a florescent liquid containing DNA.
I hope they don't try to patent this, as I think there may be prior art.
Actually, yes, I did have Linux on my PS3. I had it to experiment with the CBE as a signal processing engine, since that's what I do for a living.
And not only am I shut out of PSN, I am shut out of any recent games, any new hardware such as Move, potentially out of new Blu-Ray disks, etc. - which I do because all work and no fun makes Wowbagger a dull boy.
So yes, I DID lose (sorry, loose - I don't want to make you feel uncomfortable) something when Sony took away a feature that they had advertised, that was a part of our sales contract, and that was a part of why I did business with them.
And how long will it be until Sony decides to start removing features from this TV, because of alleged concerns about piracy, hacking, moping with intent to creep, or whatever other excuse they come up with?
"Sorry, we have removed the web browser's ability to visit any site with a vowel in the URL, because some people were visiting sites about how to use their TV to view unapproved content."
Sorry Sony, you burned me on my PS3, you shall not do so again.
In the "game" of evolution, winning isn't about an individual, but about traits (genes).
For complex organisms like humans, the set of traits that I contain is different than the set of traits you contain - so if I breed and you don't, my traits "win" and yours "lose" (loose for the slashbots among us). So a trait that makes me a selfish bastard who screws you at every turn may (not always, but may) be more "successful" than other traits. Put a bunch of people in a position where only one can survive, and they all will compete to be that one - even if they really aren't the "best" choice: "only one of us can parachute out of this plane, you are a trained paratrooper and will likely survive, I have no training and will likely die anyway, but GIMME THAT PARACHUTE MOFO!"
Now, in a puddle of bacteria, it's different. Modulo random mutations, all the "individuals" in the puddle have the same set of traits. A trait for "screw my neighbor" leads to everybody dying. In a case where only one bacteria can survive, it is in the best interest of the traits they all share that the bacterium in the best position to survive gets all the help it can from all the others, even though all others die in the process.
I can go one better: I do signal processing for a living - chewing on multi-hundred megasample/second streams of data in real time. The Cell looked like a perfect fit. We were looking at 1000's per year. Contacted IBM - sorry, not enough zeros on that number for us to sell you the chips. OK, are there any vendors that are targeting the uTCA form factor (that the Telecomms folks are are all over, so they would not have been targeting just us)? Nope, just large blades for mainframes.
I assert that IBM doesn't want to be in the chip business - at least, not "selling chips to anybody else". They don't mind making chips for their own use, but they really don't have the infrastructure to sell to anybody else.
Sony and Toshiba don't want to be in the high-end CPU market, they want to be in the mass-market stuff.
Had IBM licensed the Cell design to somebody like Freescale, they might have gone somewhere.
Sorry, but I RTFA - and what I came away with was "We will continue to support Sony for as long as Sony wants to make PS3's". I saw nothing that really said "We are going to be going someplace else with this."
"The thing is technically impressive, whether or not it "terrifies" a certain person is about perspective, and that person's tendency towards becoming terrified by mundane objects."
It is not the object that is terrifying, but rather what the existence of the object, plus the current trends in behavior by our Fearless(fearful) Leaders, plus a modicum of ability to put 2 and 2 together, yielding these devices being everywhere, able to monitor all conversations in the world.
And gets his butt sued off in turn.
The install file for Maemo won't install on an N800 (evidently, only the newer N900 - that is one thing I don't like about Nokia; when the newer version comes out, kiss support for the older versions goodbye).
The Android file might "work" on Android 2.0 or later, but it doesn't work on a Pandigital Novel - it looks like it wasn't built for ARM5.
First of all people, if Microsoft merges with Macrobe, either the Micro and Macro cancel out, and you get Adobesoft, which is too sensible, or you drop the Micro (being smaller than Macro) and run with Macrobesoft, which is just right for a slow, bloated mess of feeping creaturism.
Second of all, it won't happen, because it would be opening the Sixth Seal, and the resultant horror would make Cthulhu blanch. It would exceed the Planck limits for the amount of evil in one area, and thus the laws of Cosmic Censorship would force a M-Brane to wrap the whole lot up in a nice event horizon.
"Just give it some time. It takes a while for natal technology to be borne out."
About 9 months from inceptions to first article test.
But it usually takes about 18 years to start earning its keep. Sometimes longer.
(I don't think many other people got your joke....)
"Have they added enough padding to the conference room walls? When Ballmer finds out the terrible ROI on this crap, there will be an epic chair throwing incident."
And if the developers have the hardware in the room, tracking Ballmer, it would serve as a great field test of the device.