This is not the first Earth shattering memory technology announcement. Why is it that these things keep cropping up with all these promises of delivery in the short term and never materialize. Can we really expect anything more of this announcement? Won't is just fade away never to be seen like all the other ultra dense ultra cheap memory promises of the past?
Hoax or sensational treatment?
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This smells like a hoax. I think it'd be great 'n all but I just seems like we aren't advanced enough to target spider genes and the complex biological processes which produce the silk from it's specialized organs directly at the udders of a goat. I mean genes and the creatures they produce are a culmination of millions of randomly derived interdependent biochemical reactions.
At BEST I'd expect the milk from the goats to perhaps contain some spider silk like material (and I'm still skeptical), but there is just no way that udders are spinning silk as this article suggests.
Similar things happened in the early days of the telephone. Larger telcos got larger buying up smaller local companies. It seems that the market is rapidly changing with broadband access. I mean you used to be able to buy a bank of modems set them up in some local access calling centers (starting with only one in a city perhaps) and build from there. How do you do that when people have cable modems or DSL provided directly by the vendor providing the underlying infrastructure? This transition or it's threat would have weighed heavily on small dialup providers.
The barriers to entry seem to have grown.
Am I wrong about this? Are the days of local ISP's numbered?
No the odds of someone getting hit is then divided by the number of people on the planet for the chance of a personal interraction. But even that produces a number way too high unless you're sailing in the Pacific or Atlantic ignoring shipping advisories.
Realistically the odds of you getting hit personally is probably somewhere in the region of one in several thousands of billions. You'd be wiser to worry about encounters with natural meteors, and even wiser to forget the whole thing and pay more attention the next time you have to walk across the road.
Yea but you have to realize that the risk of a real person i.e. an American citizen, getting injured is much more remote.
I wonder what they place the odds of 1000 people getting injured at. One of those puppies deorbiting into the U.N. building while it's in session or on onto a cruise liner in the Atlantic or onto the Golden Gate at rush hour for example.
My point? These statistics are pretty meaningless, we can't halt the space program because of irrational fears. Pop tarts have killed & injured more people than space junk, as has just about any inane thing you care to mention. The merits of satelite networks easily outweigh the risks.
A distro CANNOT have this certification. This is and will remain largely a driver and config issue. You might be able to certify a system but youy cannot certify a distro when you have incomplete drivers and conflicting API's and driver models all over the place.
Getting the distros reasonably consistent would be an improvement but more progress on the driver front and a complete aversion to driver model forks or reimplementations is what's required.
NO, open source is not the same as compatibility.
Take your religion to church.
The NVIDIA driovers are actually pretty excellent. They are unquestionably the best today on Linux, and I challenge anyone to refute that. The Graphics ABI, GLX & X stuff has all been standardized and the NVIDIA drivers are compliant.
Any game which calls glx and OpenGL will work just fine on NVIDIA hardware.
The thing that interested me when I first read it were all the tenuous links to an ancient past since forgotten. You can see threads linking it to (the then) ancient Earth culture in the names of places and the language e.t.c. Dune has a real sense of it's own history.
The ideas like the revolution against high technology and things like shields forcing armies back to hand to hand combat were interesting and made for some great feudal swashbuckling in a fairly consistent framework. It's a great if improbable alternate universe.
Finally when you read any of the Dune books you get to see the grand plots coming together from every angle, this is quite comon in books but none seem to weave the tapestry as well as Dune did. You see all the protagonists laying their plans which ultimately come to clash and resolve to a final outcome at the end of the story.
My understanding is that Leto II when he makes the transformation is able to see what Paul had done to lock humanity in, and the risk of virtual human extinction from new machines from Ix. He then sets about trying to undo the damage. Paul had his own noble motivations for his actions he just couldn't see the consequences. Nobody except Leto II sees the danger from Ix.
In the TV miniseries they killed Leto the child, So where is the God emperor supposed to come from? I'm not sure if this happened in the book, it's been a while. Leto II was "II" because of Paul's father Leto.
In anycase there were substantial variations from the plot in the book. The Lynch film got a lot of scenes closer to the book than the miniseries but totally screwed up the big picture for example the travasty of rain at the end. But the miniseries was sailing close to the wind and almost lost the plot.
So is the signature merely a means of tracing back to the developer or is it a system of software certification?
If it's the latter who get's to sign applications and how much will it cost?
I assume that big developers like ADOBE will have to jump on board here, so will they have to send software to Microsoft to be signed (like WHQL or in this case WSQL), or will they be added to a database of default trusted signatories in the Operating System?
The devil's in the details, this could be a reasonable scheme or it could be evil incarnate. Does anyone have any more detailed information?
Hah, brain explode!? I've seen what goes on inside academic institutions and the only organs likely to explode at the UK Universities are the livers or kidneys, it's a toss up. As for bureaucracy and politics the Academic world takes the cake.
It's pretty clear where most of the real innovation gets done these days. There are professional opportunities which don't involve stacking boxes, especially in our line of work, and you don't have to go work for a dinosaur like an old telco.
I suggest visiting a good online job search site but be warned, if you've been languishing at Uni for too long you'll be considered damaged goods. Get out while you still can.
When I worked in the Reality Centre in the UK I related this idea to one of the visitors around five years ago. Their idea was to walk on top of a sphere as a tracking system and I pointed out that this would be inherently unstable and require motors + a significant underfloor area. I suggested that they needed to be inside a retroprojected sphere but it would be difficult to manufacture and getting in and out would require a door in the spherical screen.
You read it wrong, it says "balancing..A.. against..B..". item "..A.." was double barreled with an "and" which confused your English parser but it made sense to anyone with reasonable interpretive skills.
Re:IRS gets it all back employee gains tax.
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High-Speed Greed
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What dim bulb moderated my post as off topic?
It takes a prize moron to think that post was off topic, but if you don't cheer with the rest of the rabble in this forum it's to be expected.
This is real simple, they lose equity in their company. It ammounts to the existing stockholders deciding to share some of the value of the company with the employees who then cash in the options. When that happens the original stock holders equity is diluted and the own less of a share of the company. There is no money bening magically created here as the articles claim. Ownership is being transferred and capital gains tax is being paid.
IRS gets it all back employee gains tax.
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If the employers didn't give the stock away in options they would retain the value of the original shares so it is perfectly legitimate for them to write this off. The employees who benefit when they exercise the options pay capital gains tax anyway so the IRS doesn't lose out.
What do they want? The corporations to pay tax on money they give away in employee benefits AND the employees to pay tax on the same earnings? That would be double taxation and obviously wrong.
If the share price grows massively the employers find they have given much more away and lose equity in their own company and therefore stockholder value. At the same time the employees pay substantial amounts of capitol gains tax.
In posing the question of where to get credible data to prove Apache can outperform the competition you are not being objective or serving your company well.
Apache will certainly win at some things but you need to look at the type of serving you need and evaluate which solution is best. That is not the same as going into an evaluation with a loaded question about proving your favored candidate can win. Typically you can find evidence and circumstances to support even a weak proposition. To do so really accomplishes nothing except to support an arbitrary agenda which is unrelated to your business needs.
So, figure out what you need and evaluate which solution delivers that at what cost, or at least figure out which solution delivers more of what you need.
If you're not prepared to do that then just pick your favorite, or roll a dice. Don't waste your time going through the motions.
Title says it all... run Linux? I think it has 1k of memory unless you get the memory pack which gives you a whopping 16k, and make sure you don't jiggle it or the system will crash.
No they are bad, the whole point is that now VA needs to check the servers and maybe everything else behind the firewall. That's a drain on resources whichver way you look at it.
The idea is basically that if you double the price of something, and lose less than half your customers then you still increase revenues.
In Microsoft's case $1000 is many times the average OEM price of Windows and so if you set the price at that level then you'd still retain enough customer base (although much smaller) to see an increase in profits, but it depends critically on how many people will continue to use Windows at the inflated price.
The biggest flaw with the arguement is that Windows would no longer be as dominant and it's long term prospects would be seriously diminished. Sure you'd increase revenue but very soon you'd find that most other desktops would run an alternative and you could no longer use your dominance to force standards issues or driver issues.
It reminds me of the tale of the village idiot who is given a choice. People regularly offer him the choice of a dollar or a nickel. Every time he is offered the choice he takes the nickel and get's laughed at. The real joke is on the people making the offer though, because the idiot is smarter than they think. He knows that as soon as he takes the silver dollar the offers will soon dry up.
This is Microsoft's position, they are trying to tell the court, "look we're not greedy, we're only taking the nickel.". The truth is they know that charging $1000 for windows will not deliver long term growth, but instead bring their bandwagon to a screeching halt.
OpenGL ARB membership == voting rights
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I'm all for OpenGL but there are lots of pretty poorly informed posts in this thread which need to be corrected.
Glide had earlier and better support on Linux for 3Dfx hardware than OpenGL. Infact OpenGL under Mesa became available on Linux because Glide was already available to supply the hardware acceleration underneath it.
This is all old history because OpenGL has well and truly arrived on Linux and 3Dfx has already deprecated Glide, infact they did this a long time ago and it has nothing to do with ARB membership.
Some other comments suggest that 3Dfx were late to the OpenGL party but this again is highly misleading. 3Dfx were one of the first out with consumer card OpenGL drivers on Windows (a subset at least) which Carmack used to test his port of Quake. These matured into real drivers over time and 3Dfx even aggressively implemented extensions like multitexture and point parameters. They have been doing a great job on OpenGL.
The membership of the ARB merely gives them voting rights on future direction and extensions. This is a good thing and indicates OpenGL's importance to PC card manufacturers but it really doesn't say anything about 3Dfx's commitment to OpenGL which has been there all along. To commit to and implement OpenGL drivers on your hardware you don't need ARB membership and 3Dfx have been doing this for years now.
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This is not the first Earth shattering memory technology announcement. Why is it that these things keep cropping up with all these promises of delivery in the short term and never materialize. Can we really expect anything more of this announcement? Won't is just fade away never to be seen like all the other ultra dense ultra cheap memory promises of the past?
This smells like a hoax. I think it'd be great 'n all but I just seems like we aren't advanced enough to target spider genes and the complex biological processes which produce the silk from it's specialized organs directly at the udders of a goat. I mean genes and the creatures they produce are a culmination of millions of randomly derived interdependent biochemical reactions.
At BEST I'd expect the milk from the goats to perhaps contain some spider silk like material (and I'm still skeptical), but there is just no way that udders are spinning silk as this article suggests.
Similar things happened in the early days of the telephone. Larger telcos got larger buying up smaller local companies. It seems that the market is rapidly changing with broadband access. I mean you used to be able to buy a bank of modems set them up in some local access calling centers (starting with only one in a city perhaps) and build from there. How do you do that when people have cable modems or DSL provided directly by the vendor providing the underlying infrastructure? This transition or it's threat would have weighed heavily on small dialup providers.
The barriers to entry seem to have grown.
Am I wrong about this? Are the days of local ISP's numbered?
No the odds of someone getting hit is then divided by the number of people on the planet for the chance of a personal interraction. But even that produces a number way too high unless you're sailing in the Pacific or Atlantic ignoring shipping advisories.
Realistically the odds of you getting hit personally is probably somewhere in the region of one in several thousands of billions. You'd be wiser to worry about encounters with natural meteors, and even wiser to forget the whole thing and pay more attention the next time you have to walk across the road.
Yea but you have to realize that the risk of a real person i.e. an American citizen, getting injured is much more remote.
I wonder what they place the odds of 1000 people getting injured at. One of those puppies deorbiting into the U.N. building while it's in session or on onto a cruise liner in the Atlantic or onto the Golden Gate at rush hour for example.
My point? These statistics are pretty meaningless, we can't halt the space program because of irrational fears. Pop tarts have killed & injured more people than space junk, as has just about any inane thing you care to mention. The merits of satelite networks easily outweigh the risks.
A distro CANNOT have this certification. This is and will remain largely a driver and config issue. You might be able to certify a system but youy cannot certify a distro when you have incomplete drivers and conflicting API's and driver models all over the place.
Getting the distros reasonably consistent would be an improvement but more progress on the driver front and a complete aversion to driver model forks or reimplementations is what's required.
NO, open source is not the same as compatibility.
Take your religion to church.
The NVIDIA driovers are actually pretty excellent. They are unquestionably the best today on Linux, and I challenge anyone to refute that. The Graphics ABI, GLX & X stuff has all been standardized and the NVIDIA drivers are compliant.
Any game which calls glx and OpenGL will work just fine on NVIDIA hardware.
The thing that interested me when I first read it were all the tenuous links to an ancient past since forgotten. You can see threads linking it to (the then) ancient Earth culture in the names of places and the language e.t.c. Dune has a real sense of it's own history.
The ideas like the revolution against high technology and things like shields forcing armies back to hand to hand combat were interesting and made for some great feudal swashbuckling in a fairly consistent framework. It's a great if improbable alternate universe.
Finally when you read any of the Dune books you get to see the grand plots coming together from every angle, this is quite comon in books but none seem to weave the tapestry as well as Dune did. You see all the protagonists laying their plans which ultimately come to clash and resolve to a final outcome at the end of the story.
I think you should ask David Lynch what he thinks of his movie Dune. He seemed embarrassed by it when I last saw him discussing it.
My understanding is that Leto II when he makes the transformation is able to see what Paul had done to lock humanity in, and the risk of virtual human extinction from new machines from Ix. He then sets about trying to undo the damage. Paul had his own noble motivations for his actions he just couldn't see the consequences. Nobody except Leto II sees the danger from Ix.
In the TV miniseries they killed Leto the child, So where is the God emperor supposed to come from? I'm not sure if this happened in the book, it's been a while. Leto II was "II" because of Paul's father Leto.
In anycase there were substantial variations from the plot in the book. The Lynch film got a lot of scenes closer to the book than the miniseries but totally screwed up the big picture for example the travasty of rain at the end. But the miniseries was sailing close to the wind and almost lost the plot.
So is the signature merely a means of tracing back to the developer or is it a system of software certification?
If it's the latter who get's to sign applications and how much will it cost?
I assume that big developers like ADOBE will have to jump on board here, so will they have to send software to Microsoft to be signed (like WHQL or in this case WSQL), or will they be added to a database of default trusted signatories in the Operating System?
The devil's in the details, this could be a reasonable scheme or it could be evil incarnate. Does anyone have any more detailed information?
You have the code which Netscape GAVE you. Feel free to build a version without the adds. Fork the tree, whatever.
Nobody is forcing you to use the browser. If thine web browser offends thee, pluck it out (uninstall it).
Hah, brain explode!? I've seen what goes on inside academic institutions and the only organs likely to explode at the UK Universities are the livers or kidneys, it's a toss up. As for bureaucracy and politics the Academic world takes the cake.
It's pretty clear where most of the real innovation gets done these days. There are professional opportunities which don't involve stacking boxes, especially in our line of work, and you don't have to go work for a dinosaur like an old telco.
I suggest visiting a good online job search site but be warned, if you've been languishing at Uni for too long you'll be considered damaged goods. Get out while you still can.
Then get the hell out of University.
Go get a real job and the salary that goes with it, IF you can handle the the work.
When I worked in the Reality Centre in the UK I related this idea to one of the visitors around five years ago. Their idea was to walk on top of a sphere as a tracking system and I pointed out that this would be inherently unstable and require motors + a significant underfloor area. I suggested that they needed to be inside a retroprojected sphere but it would be difficult to manufacture and getting in and out would require a door in the spherical screen.
You read it wrong, it says "balancing ..A.. against ..B..". item "..A.." was double barreled with an "and" which confused your English parser but it made sense to anyone with reasonable interpretive skills.
What dim bulb moderated my post as off topic?
It takes a prize moron to think that post was off topic, but if you don't cheer with the rest of the rabble in this forum it's to be expected.
This is real simple, they lose equity in their company. It ammounts to the existing stockholders deciding to share some of the value of the company with the employees who then cash in the options. When that happens the original stock holders equity is diluted and the own less of a share of the company. There is no money bening magically created here as the articles claim. Ownership is being transferred and capital gains tax is being paid.
If the employers didn't give the stock away in options they would retain the value of the original shares so it is perfectly legitimate for them to write this off. The employees who benefit when they exercise the options pay capital gains tax anyway so the IRS doesn't lose out.
What do they want? The corporations to pay tax on money they give away in employee benefits AND the employees to pay tax on the same earnings? That would be double taxation and obviously wrong.
If the share price grows massively the employers find they have given much more away and lose equity in their own company and therefore stockholder value. At the same time the employees pay substantial amounts of capitol gains tax.
In posing the question of where to get credible data to prove Apache can outperform the competition you are not being objective or serving your company well.
Apache will certainly win at some things but you need to look at the type of serving you need and evaluate which solution is best. That is not the same as going into an evaluation with a loaded question about proving your favored candidate can win. Typically you can find evidence and circumstances to support even a weak proposition. To do so really accomplishes nothing except to support an arbitrary agenda which is unrelated to your business needs.
So, figure out what you need and evaluate which solution delivers that at what cost, or at least figure out which solution delivers more of what you need.
If you're not prepared to do that then just pick your favorite, or roll a dice. Don't waste your time going through the motions.
Title says it all... run Linux? I think it has 1k of memory unless you get the memory pack which gives you a whopping 16k, and make sure you don't jiggle it or the system will crash.
No they are bad, the whole point is that now VA needs to check the servers and maybe everything else behind the firewall. That's a drain on resources whichver way you look at it.
There's no such thing as a friendly hack.
/. didn't mention it.
The article was posted by the hackers, that's the whole point.
This is standard marketing stuff.
The idea is basically that if you double the price of something, and lose less than half your customers then you still increase revenues.
In Microsoft's case $1000 is many times the average OEM price of Windows and so if you set the price at that level then you'd still retain enough customer base (although much smaller) to see an increase in profits, but it depends critically on how many people will continue to use Windows at the inflated price.
The biggest flaw with the arguement is that Windows would no longer be as dominant and it's long term prospects would be seriously diminished. Sure you'd increase revenue but very soon you'd find that most other desktops would run an alternative and you could no longer use your dominance to force standards issues or driver issues.
It reminds me of the tale of the village idiot who is given a choice. People regularly offer him the choice of a dollar or a nickel. Every time he is offered the choice he takes the nickel and get's laughed at. The real joke is on the people making the offer though, because the idiot is smarter than they think. He knows that as soon as he takes the silver dollar the offers will soon dry up.
This is Microsoft's position, they are trying to tell the court, "look we're not greedy, we're only taking the nickel.". The truth is they know that charging $1000 for windows will not deliver long term growth, but instead bring their bandwagon to a screeching halt.
I'm all for OpenGL but there are lots of pretty poorly informed posts in this thread which need to be corrected.
Glide had earlier and better support on Linux for 3Dfx hardware than OpenGL. Infact OpenGL under Mesa became available on Linux because Glide was already available to supply the hardware acceleration underneath it.
This is all old history because OpenGL has well and truly arrived on Linux and 3Dfx has already deprecated Glide, infact they did this a long time ago and it has nothing to do with ARB membership.
Some other comments suggest that 3Dfx were late to the OpenGL party but this again is highly misleading. 3Dfx were one of the first out with consumer card OpenGL drivers on Windows (a subset at least) which Carmack used to test his port of Quake. These matured into real drivers over time and 3Dfx even aggressively implemented extensions like multitexture and point parameters. They have been doing a great job on OpenGL.
The membership of the ARB merely gives them voting rights on future direction and extensions. This is a good thing and indicates OpenGL's importance to PC card manufacturers but it really doesn't say anything about 3Dfx's commitment to OpenGL which has been there all along. To commit to and implement OpenGL drivers on your hardware you don't need ARB membership and 3Dfx have been doing this for years now.