Your point is exactly what makes the necessity of the "next big thing" essential to the survival of that industry, and which leads me to believe that we'll see the computer industry wind up look a lot like the auto industry. We saw great advancements in the first several decades, but nothing that really changed how the core machine worked; we simply spent 100+ years refining it and improving efficiency and power (and safety). Of course there were always those exotic electic cars, but their use never become too widespread.
Now we're finally on the verge of the next big step; fuel cell autos. Just like they expected cars to fly fifty years after they were invented (but with no real change in the actual technology of the machine), so now we're expecting exotic things like quantum mechanics to be commonplace in computing environments in twenty years.
I think rather we'll see companies settle in; the big ones will survive if they're smart, while others will come on the market with their own claim to fame; shapes, colors, "safety" ratings, and finally government efficienty mandates. It could well be 100 years of "getting it right" before we finally see widespread implementation of a completely new technology.
We may be getting smaller, but as this happens we'll need higher voltages to force things to happen on that level. And with those increased voltages (and the problems of things being crammed so tightly together) we'll see the effects of those electrons in such close proximity resulting in errors. Sure, maybe we won't hit a brick wall for a while as far as how much we can cram onto a chip, but what about the logistics? Will it really be worth the effort if we can't rely on these little marvels to remain accurate?
But this certainly seems to be the most promising.
I'm still all about developing a means of getting us out there to explore these places.
Plus, it would certainly be nice to finally find a backup for our planet. You can't tell me there aren't at least a few people out there who have been rather alarmed at all of our recent unexpected solar activity.
This actually helps bolster my confidence in the teetering giant. I've been interested myself in signing up to run google's adwords for the launch of my next portal; this helps establish that they ARE sensitive to the needs of the people who really count on them. It doesn't matter who did it first; what counts is that google IS doing this. I respect that.
This is going on my redhat server, my three XP boxes, and all four of my Macs.
I've been wondering lately if maybe the SCO got some secret stock options from a certain large corporation to start a scare campaign of litigations so that more people switch to less than adequate operating systems.
I thought it was rediculous that the MPAA was able to impose that ban to begin with. I'm not upset...sure, I've recieved my share of screeners, but typically only kept those I liked anyway, and only until the better commercial dvd version came out anyway. I say if a movie house wants to put their film out there, let them do it! It's rediculous to lose any kind of elegibilities for doing what you want with your product.
Hollywood is dangerously close to being an exclusive, communistic institution and state unto itself.
And what exactly will stop people from holding shift as they copy stuff? Heh heh.
Yeah. This will be about as effective as standing my grandmother in front of the breaking dam.
I like the concept that they trust the consumer to be honest. How about instead we trust SOCIETY to evolve and simply let bygones be bygones? Sure, some industries don't want to die...why would they? But they're hindering our forward progress in their rediculous attempts to merely survive (read: senseless litigation) rather than doing the "right thing", lying down and letting us steamroll forward.
I'd be much more interested in the "next big thing" than their feeble attempts to thwart anti-security measures embedded into an old medium as they push forumulaic entertainment on us with a bombardment of advertising saturation.
This is sad and funny at the same time. I can see where someone could potentially be offended to merely hear the terms used, but use some common sense people! Hasn't anyone heard of context? When political correctness stretches so far as to have government offices relabling hard drive configurations to imply that while some drives may not be as gifted as others, all are created equal...I laugh. I've been through my share of drives in my day, and I can guarantee that not all are created equal.
How pathetic have we become? Something like this can only be laughed at, and never really measured.
If they can fit 64 bit tech (why couldn't they before?) into a laptop, I'd love to see something modular come of this. Get a keyboard that can detach from the thing. A small wireless mouse that hooks on the side. A dock for the screen.
That way we can have our cake and eat it too. I want a laptop that PAINLESSLY becomes my desktop when I take it home, without having to plug a bunch of crap in.
When are they going to get it right? Must we do everything ourselves? I mean seriously...look at some of the innovations that would have never happened without someone in the modding community doing it first.
If I could get funding, I'd even build the thing and send it to a manufacturer if it means I can buy a bunch for my kids in the future when they hit college age.
So does this mean, with 60nm tech, the die can be four times as large with an increase of 500% power? If we're moving from 90nm to 60nm, in the same die size that effectively puts us at a 30% efficiency increase. Times four (heck, just add more layers if you need more circuits!)...well, I'm hoping this means we see 20Ghz chips in time for Longhorn's launch. Watch it crash in 1/5 of the time!!
Not available to public debate? Seriously, it's scary. When something that impacts us this greatly, and gives an arm of the government this much authority is put through and passed without us being able to say anything about it, that's WRONG. The people who are in office are there because we put them there to represent our views. When we are going to finally get that concept in our heads and boot these idiots from office?
Oh yay, another "do not..." registry. As if that'll work. What happened with the "do not call" registry? We got hammered with spam. If there's a new "do not spam" registry, what happens next? Flyers dumped out of airplanes? Something tells me cleaning out the pool is gonna become a bitch.
Damon,
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But not unlikely. I rather like this idea. I've heard from several outlets (read: older generations) who insist that our current tastes for technology are leading the world to become impersonal. Quite the opposite, really. As demonstrated, I think we're more "connected" with each other (and not merely our machines as some would suggest) than ever before.
It's a small world afterall...and it's getting smaller every day.
This DOES shed some good light. I would like to get a better picture of just who the hell SCO thinks they are in their recent "let's sue EVERYONE!" kick, but I appreciated the perspective. I've heard a lot from the other companies; it's good to hear from the troublemakers and get a good idea where they're coming from.
I don't understand how, on a different bandwidth, this can cause a problem. Even if they're using two different channels, the phasing doesn't make sense to me.
What am I missing here? It looks suspiciously like a last-ditch ploy to try to take out a competitor who offers a better product.
Rather like the throes of death, although it's a little early in the game to predict that.
How DO you prove whether or not a person had the capability to do the hack? Character witness comes into huge play here, and I have a feeling that as this defense becomes more and more difficult to prosecute in criminal course, we'll see cases popping up where civil suits are being filed against people. In a criminal case you are innocent until proven guilt, while if a civil suit were filed for damages from a specific person's computer, all that has to be proven is that they are the most likely person to have committed the infraction.
I'm waiting for a case to set precedent in this realm. What happens when grandma is on the hook for $250,000 in damages because she was judged for "willful neglect" in not actively taking responsibility to ensure that her computer was adequately protected against trojans? I feel it's only a matter of time before someone proposes that owning a computer carries the same ramifications and responsibilities as owning a gun.
I hope such a thing never actually holds up, but I still fully expect to see it proposed.
Couple this with the reverse tech to salvage heat, apply it within the new optical chip.
I want a Cobalt server with all this new technology in it. Then you could slashdot me and I wouldn't even blink.
Seriously, it's pretty exciting to see some forward-thinking people coming up with ways to defeat the walls physicists said we'd hit in twenty years. Don't us we can't do something; it's only a matter of time before we prove you wrong!
I actually do just use hardware. I feel XP's hardware detection is decent enough that if I'm swapping among similar chipsets, I can just move physical drives around no problem. Of course, you have a good long wait while things are detected and installed, but if you're running proprietary file-server oriented boxes, bypassing this and manually enabling different driver sets isn't too tough. Yes, it's a nuisance, but it can be done.
Okay, so maybe we can't just buy our way into space YET, but this certainly seems to help get us that much closer. Maybe I won't need the engineering degree and military career after all.
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Your point is exactly what makes the necessity of the "next big thing" essential to the survival of that industry, and which leads me to believe that we'll see the computer industry wind up look a lot like the auto industry. We saw great advancements in the first several decades, but nothing that really changed how the core machine worked; we simply spent 100+ years refining it and improving efficiency and power (and safety). Of course there were always those exotic electic cars, but their use never become too widespread.
Now we're finally on the verge of the next big step; fuel cell autos. Just like they expected cars to fly fifty years after they were invented (but with no real change in the actual technology of the machine), so now we're expecting exotic things like quantum mechanics to be commonplace in computing environments in twenty years.
I think rather we'll see companies settle in; the big ones will survive if they're smart, while others will come on the market with their own claim to fame; shapes, colors, "safety" ratings, and finally government efficienty mandates. It could well be 100 years of "getting it right" before we finally see widespread implementation of a completely new technology.
Damon,
We may be getting smaller, but as this happens we'll need higher voltages to force things to happen on that level. And with those increased voltages (and the problems of things being crammed so tightly together) we'll see the effects of those electrons in such close proximity resulting in errors. Sure, maybe we won't hit a brick wall for a while as far as how much we can cram onto a chip, but what about the logistics? Will it really be worth the effort if we can't rely on these little marvels to remain accurate?
Damon,
But this certainly seems to be the most promising.
I'm still all about developing a means of getting us out there to explore these places.
Plus, it would certainly be nice to finally find a backup for our planet. You can't tell me there aren't at least a few people out there who have been rather alarmed at all of our recent unexpected solar activity.
Damon,
This actually helps bolster my confidence in the teetering giant. I've been interested myself in signing up to run google's adwords for the launch of my next portal; this helps establish that they ARE sensitive to the needs of the people who really count on them. It doesn't matter who did it first; what counts is that google IS doing this. I respect that.
Damon,
This is going on my redhat server, my three XP boxes, and all four of my Macs.
I've been wondering lately if maybe the SCO got some secret stock options from a certain large corporation to start a scare campaign of litigations so that more people switch to less than adequate operating systems.
Curious curious curious.
This is terrific!
Damon,
I thought it was rediculous that the MPAA was able to impose that ban to begin with. I'm not upset...sure, I've recieved my share of screeners, but typically only kept those I liked anyway, and only until the better commercial dvd version came out anyway. I say if a movie house wants to put their film out there, let them do it! It's rediculous to lose any kind of elegibilities for doing what you want with your product.
Hollywood is dangerously close to being an exclusive, communistic institution and state unto itself.
Close? Who am I kidding??
Damon,
And what exactly will stop people from holding shift as they copy stuff? Heh heh.
Yeah. This will be about as effective as standing my grandmother in front of the breaking dam.
I like the concept that they trust the consumer to be honest. How about instead we trust SOCIETY to evolve and simply let bygones be bygones? Sure, some industries don't want to die...why would they? But they're hindering our forward progress in their rediculous attempts to merely survive (read: senseless litigation) rather than doing the "right thing", lying down and letting us steamroll forward.
I'd be much more interested in the "next big thing" than their feeble attempts to thwart anti-security measures embedded into an old medium as they push forumulaic entertainment on us with a bombardment of advertising saturation.
Damon,
This is sad and funny at the same time. I can see where someone could potentially be offended to merely hear the terms used, but use some common sense people! Hasn't anyone heard of context? When political correctness stretches so far as to have government offices relabling hard drive configurations to imply that while some drives may not be as gifted as others, all are created equal...I laugh. I've been through my share of drives in my day, and I can guarantee that not all are created equal.
How pathetic have we become? Something like this can only be laughed at, and never really measured.
Pathetic.
Damon,
If they can fit 64 bit tech (why couldn't they before?) into a laptop, I'd love to see something modular come of this. Get a keyboard that can detach from the thing. A small wireless mouse that hooks on the side. A dock for the screen.
That way we can have our cake and eat it too. I want a laptop that PAINLESSLY becomes my desktop when I take it home, without having to plug a bunch of crap in.
When are they going to get it right? Must we do everything ourselves? I mean seriously...look at some of the innovations that would have never happened without someone in the modding community doing it first.
If I could get funding, I'd even build the thing and send it to a manufacturer if it means I can buy a bunch for my kids in the future when they hit college age.
Damon,
So does this mean, with 60nm tech, the die can be four times as large with an increase of 500% power? If we're moving from 90nm to 60nm, in the same die size that effectively puts us at a 30% efficiency increase. Times four (heck, just add more layers if you need more circuits!)...well, I'm hoping this means we see 20Ghz chips in time for Longhorn's launch. Watch it crash in 1/5 of the time!!
Damon,
Not available to public debate? Seriously, it's scary. When something that impacts us this greatly, and gives an arm of the government this much authority is put through and passed without us being able to say anything about it, that's WRONG. The people who are in office are there because we put them there to represent our views. When we are going to finally get that concept in our heads and boot these idiots from office?
Damon,
So, are they touting application, or merely increasing your ability to do something useless?
XML has great web potential, but saying so is dangerously rehashing an old argument and certainly not new.
So why would we want a book that supposedly teaches us how to use something for which we as of yet have little use in the online world?
I get the point. I thing application and implementation should be pushed before this.
It's like teaching someone to program in cobol without giving them a robotic arm on which to experiment.
Damon,
Oh yay, another "do not..." registry. As if that'll work. What happened with the "do not call" registry? We got hammered with spam. If there's a new "do not spam" registry, what happens next? Flyers dumped out of airplanes? Something tells me cleaning out the pool is gonna become a bitch.
Damon,
But not unlikely. I rather like this idea. I've heard from several outlets (read: older generations) who insist that our current tastes for technology are leading the world to become impersonal. Quite the opposite, really. As demonstrated, I think we're more "connected" with each other (and not merely our machines as some would suggest) than ever before.
It's a small world afterall...and it's getting smaller every day.
Damon,
This DOES shed some good light. I would like to get a better picture of just who the hell SCO thinks they are in their recent "let's sue EVERYONE!" kick, but I appreciated the perspective. I've heard a lot from the other companies; it's good to hear from the troublemakers and get a good idea where they're coming from.
Damon,
Thanks!!!!
Damon,
I've heard of the glories of postgre...now I may actually dump mysql and use it! Looks like it'll be easier to configure, and in my book that wins.
Damon,
I don't understand how, on a different bandwidth, this can cause a problem. Even if they're using two different channels, the phasing doesn't make sense to me.
What am I missing here? It looks suspiciously like a last-ditch ploy to try to take out a competitor who offers a better product.
Rather like the throes of death, although it's a little early in the game to predict that.
Damon,
Just a suggestion, but....
Get a Mac?
Damon,
How DO you prove whether or not a person had the capability to do the hack? Character witness comes into huge play here, and I have a feeling that as this defense becomes more and more difficult to prosecute in criminal course, we'll see cases popping up where civil suits are being filed against people. In a criminal case you are innocent until proven guilt, while if a civil suit were filed for damages from a specific person's computer, all that has to be proven is that they are the most likely person to have committed the infraction.
I'm waiting for a case to set precedent in this realm. What happens when grandma is on the hook for $250,000 in damages because she was judged for "willful neglect" in not actively taking responsibility to ensure that her computer was adequately protected against trojans? I feel it's only a matter of time before someone proposes that owning a computer carries the same ramifications and responsibilities as owning a gun.
I hope such a thing never actually holds up, but I still fully expect to see it proposed.
Damon,
Couple this with the reverse tech to salvage heat, apply it within the new optical chip.
I want a Cobalt server with all this new technology in it. Then you could slashdot me and I wouldn't even blink.
Seriously, it's pretty exciting to see some forward-thinking people coming up with ways to defeat the walls physicists said we'd hit in twenty years. Don't us we can't do something; it's only a matter of time before we prove you wrong!
Damon,
I actually do just use hardware. I feel XP's hardware detection is decent enough that if I'm swapping among similar chipsets, I can just move physical drives around no problem. Of course, you have a good long wait while things are detected and installed, but if you're running proprietary file-server oriented boxes, bypassing this and manually enabling different driver sets isn't too tough. Yes, it's a nuisance, but it can be done.
Damon,
I'll absolutely second that!!
When do tickets go on sale?
Okay, so maybe we can't just buy our way into space YET, but this certainly seems to help get us that much closer. Maybe I won't need the engineering degree and military career after all.
Damon,
Cool...sorry for the generalization! Does it help that I have a good opinion of you?
Damon,