There are only a few vendors who make FPGAs
with enough gates to run a full MIPS core
(you'll need more than the mimimum to boot
an interesting operating system). And then
you're locked in!
Unless the FPGA design is open source, you're
a complete hypocrite, worse than any Windows
user, because you preach open source and are
living in sin.
Tough choice between open designs, audited by many,
and impossible choice, and a super secret obscure
design that gets hacked in a week by some kid in
Estonia...
Personally, I'd prefer good DRM because it will
stop giving the RIAA/MPAA an excuse to jack up
prices and accuse people of theft. And who knows,
maybe normal market forces will start to take
effect and the price for music/movies will drop to
the point where stealing them doesn't make sense.
I'm sure someone will correct me with nit-picking
details, but when I first saw Voltron I thought it
was a huge rip-off from the live-action series
"Gigantor", which was from sometime in the mid-70s.
And then the Power Rangers seemed like a rip-off
from Voltron and Gigantor and everything else...
The ideas presented here were extensively refined here in the Blogosphere in a wide-ranging conversation that crossed many of the conventional faultlines of the computer industry.
That sounds more an obituary than something to get
excited about.
It would be a bit more compelling if the ideas could
be traced back to some theoretical basis (where's Butler Lampson's name? Mike Schroeder? C'mon, these guys work for MSR), the discussion was focussed instead of "wide-ranging", and took place
anywhere other than the Blogosphere.
He took a working kernel that supported the network and replaced it with another kernel so that he could get the debian package manager to work. This is backwards. If he wants kudos, he'll fix the endianess problem.
In the meanwhile, the NetBSD people could probably
port their system to this hardware in an afternoon.
There's more to life than Linux.
... As for inconvient GC cycles, that is the programmers fault. You have to do your own GC when you think you have time. The JVM will only GC when its full...
No, that's not the way modern JVMs work. The
whole "out-of-memory, stop the world for a GC"
way of thinking was archaic before Java was even
a gleam in Gosling's eye.
Granted, the programmer can do silly things that
cause the system to perform badly, but this is not the fault
of the garbage collector.
Why didn't Linus just add support for common x86 laptop chipsets to Linux...oh, wait, he let us do it for him. for free.
Why didn't *BSD just add support for common x86 laptop chipsets to Linux...oh, wait, they let us do it for them. for free.
etc.
Oh, grow up! Sun opens solaris, and all you can do is gripe that they expect someone else to flesh out the hardware support. If everyone had your attitude, Linus would probably be just another anonymous code monkey and Linux wouldn't even be a historical footnote.
Read the article! Sun is de-emphasizing JDS on Linux. They are not pulling back from JDS or the desktop, they're just more gung-ho about it as an interface for solaris.
Besides, anyone who thinks that the Microsoft/Sun relationship is a "lovefest" doesn't know which way is up.
It seems like every tenth word in TFA is "linux".
OK, so the phone uses linux internally. Why should
I care; what does this get me? It's not like I'm
going to ssh into my phone, fire up emacs, and start hacking on my latest C++ app.
Does it really matter what OS your phone is running?
It's a closed system; you can't get at the internals.
I'm sorry I didn't express myself more clearly;
I don't mean to start a flame-war.
Let's look at this another way. The "average" person who works for Google isn't technical at all. They spend their time managing Google's ad-based revenue. They are primarily salespeople. The last time I spoke to someone at Google, their estimate was that less than 15% of the employees at Google are involved in the technical side of Google -- and they thought perhaps it was a lot less.
The average person at Microsoft is a code monkey. It's fairly astonishing how small of a sales force they have. (one of the advantages of being a monopoly, of course).
Now, on to the second point: it pushes my button to hear "Google-type" used as a synonym for PHDs and scientists, the best and the brightest, etc. They hire good people who are great at turning ideas into programs, but they're not particularly inventive when it comes to those ideas. They grab ideas that other people have invented and build
them into businesses. That's about as Microsoft-like as you can get.
Gosh, I guess there weren't any research organizations before Google came along and put
a bunch of smart people in cubicles together?
Google-type? I'd rather be PARC-type, or DEC-SRC-type. I'd settle for MSR-type, BBN-type,
SRI-type, SunLabs-type, or IntelLabs-type, or any-decent-university-type.
It is demonstrated here that CD-R and DVD-R media can be very stable (sample S4 for CD-R and sample D2 for DVD-R). Results suggest that these media types will ensure data is available for several tens of years and therefore may be suitable for archival uses.
So that doesn't sound like a bad medium!
The trick, as the paper also mentions, is knowing which brand/manufacturers are good and which are crap. So maybe the DVD-Rs in the bargain bin aren't really a bargain...
From the article, this sounds like the first time
they've "risen". If this was the second Firefly
movie, then that would be "again".
However, I have to admit the "Brownshirts rise again" has a better ring to it than "Movie studios realize that nerds are a profitable target demographic."
No, the "hard card" was a self-contained hard drive
that could be installed, like a peripheral card,
directly into a mobo slot. Nice idea for old cases
that didn't have expansion drive bays. Saw lots in
stores, but never saw many in actual computers...
On the other hand, you might be thinking of bubble memory... which was going to be the next big thing
in the early 80's. Still waiting on that one.
A simpler explaination is that Windows XP has already been ported to practically every x86 chipset and common peripheral, so it's no surprise it works.
According to the link you cite, the current goal of
SystemTap is to eventually have a subset of the functionality of DTrace. In the meanwhile, I don't expect DTrace to sit around waiting for them... So "has" is probably not the right verb to use here.
When I say "server mindset" I mean things like zones, role-based security, TUFS, the online patching system, not CLI.
Package management: yes. Binary compatibility with linux? Not sure what the state of this
is; I haven't kicked the tires, but the "Janus"
package alledgedly does this. Hardware support?
Not so great. They need more people building device drivers before they can support every beige box.
Tools like DTrace. The ability to scale to
large numbers of processors. A security model
that is quite strong. A stable code base.
A reasonable license. Decent management tools; a server mindset.
There's nothing all that revolutionary about it;
it doesn't so much as fill a hole as provide another choice. Personally I see it as something
to use when I would have used *BSD but I don't
want to deal with the politics...
... majority of the OSS community is made up of ego driven men striving to be the alpha.
No need to smear the OSS community. That describes the non-OSS community perfectly also.
There are people who hack for the love of it, and there are people who write code because they have a vision of making the world a better place through better technology... you just don't hear about them too much. They don't feel the need to self-promote.
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Unless they can really trim the fat, this will be the biggest motivation for broadband since pr0n.
Even more likely, books will be published with AdSense ads pre-inserted.
Welcome to the Googleverse. There's a black hole for information in the center of it, and man does that thing suck.
Good heavens, don't do that!
There are only a few vendors who make FPGAs with enough gates to run a full MIPS core (you'll need more than the mimimum to boot an interesting operating system). And then you're locked in!
Unless the FPGA design is open source, you're a complete hypocrite, worse than any Windows user, because you preach open source and are living in sin.
Gosh, doesn't Sun already sell some pretty nice AMD-based PCs? Maybe they've got more on board than you think.
Personally, I'd prefer good DRM because it will stop giving the RIAA/MPAA an excuse to jack up prices and accuse people of theft. And who knows, maybe normal market forces will start to take effect and the price for music/movies will drop to the point where stealing them doesn't make sense.
That sounds more an obituary than something to get excited about.
It would be a bit more compelling if the ideas could be traced back to some theoretical basis (where's Butler Lampson's name? Mike Schroeder? C'mon, these guys work for MSR), the discussion was focussed instead of "wide-ranging", and took place anywhere other than the Blogosphere.
Anonymity conceals identity. People who commit crimes often don't want to get caught, so anonymity is something they desire.
Nothing to see here; move along.
He took a working kernel that supported the network and replaced it with another kernel so that he could get the debian package manager to work. This is backwards. If he wants kudos, he'll fix the endianess problem.
In the meanwhile, the NetBSD people could probably port their system to this hardware in an afternoon. There's more to life than Linux.
No, that's not the way modern JVMs work. The whole "out-of-memory, stop the world for a GC" way of thinking was archaic before Java was even a gleam in Gosling's eye.
Granted, the programmer can do silly things that cause the system to perform badly, but this is not the fault of the garbage collector.
Why didn't *BSD just add support for common x86 laptop chipsets to Linux...oh, wait, they let us do it for them. for free.
etc.
Oh, grow up! Sun opens solaris, and all you can do is gripe that they expect someone else to flesh out the hardware support. If everyone had your attitude, Linus would probably be just another anonymous code monkey and Linux wouldn't even be a historical footnote.
Read the article! Sun is de-emphasizing JDS on Linux. They are not pulling back from JDS or the desktop, they're just more gung-ho about it as an interface for solaris.
Besides, anyone who thinks that the Microsoft/Sun relationship is a "lovefest" doesn't know which way is up.
Does it really matter what OS your phone is running? It's a closed system; you can't get at the internals.
Let's look at this another way. The "average" person who works for Google isn't technical at all. They spend their time managing Google's ad-based revenue. They are primarily salespeople. The last time I spoke to someone at Google, their estimate was that less than 15% of the employees at Google are involved in the technical side of Google -- and they thought perhaps it was a lot less.
The average person at Microsoft is a code monkey. It's fairly astonishing how small of a sales force they have. (one of the advantages of being a monopoly, of course).
Now, on to the second point: it pushes my button to hear "Google-type" used as a synonym for PHDs and scientists, the best and the brightest, etc. They hire good people who are great at turning ideas into programs, but they're not particularly inventive when it comes to those ideas. They grab ideas that other people have invented and build them into businesses. That's about as Microsoft-like as you can get.
Google-type? I'd rather be PARC-type, or DEC-SRC-type. I'd settle for MSR-type, BBN-type, SRI-type, SunLabs-type, or IntelLabs-type, or any-decent-university-type.
It is demonstrated here that CD-R and DVD-R media can be very stable (sample S4 for CD-R and sample D2 for DVD-R). Results suggest that these media types will ensure data is available for several tens of years and therefore may be suitable for archival uses.
So that doesn't sound like a bad medium!
The trick, as the paper also mentions, is knowing which brand/manufacturers are good and which are crap. So maybe the DVD-Rs in the bargain bin aren't really a bargain...
My bad.
From the article, this sounds like the first time they've "risen". If this was the second Firefly movie, then that would be "again".
However, I have to admit the "Brownshirts rise again" has a better ring to it than "Movie studios realize that nerds are a profitable target demographic."
On the other hand, you might be thinking of bubble memory... which was going to be the next big thing in the early 80's. Still waiting on that one.
According to the link you cite, the current goal of SystemTap is to eventually have a subset of the functionality of DTrace. In the meanwhile, I don't expect DTrace to sit around waiting for them... So "has" is probably not the right verb to use here.
When I say "server mindset" I mean things like zones, role-based security, TUFS, the online patching system, not CLI.
Package management: yes. Binary compatibility with linux? Not sure what the state of this is; I haven't kicked the tires, but the "Janus" package alledgedly does this. Hardware support? Not so great. They need more people building device drivers before they can support every beige box.
Tools like DTrace. The ability to scale to large numbers of processors. A security model that is quite strong. A stable code base. A reasonable license. Decent management tools; a server mindset.
There's nothing all that revolutionary about it; it doesn't so much as fill a hole as provide another choice. Personally I see it as something to use when I would have used *BSD but I don't want to deal with the politics...
No need to smear the OSS community. That describes the non-OSS community perfectly also.
There are people who hack for the love of it, and there are people who write code because they have a vision of making the world a better place through better technology... you just don't hear about them too much. They don't feel the need to self-promote.
But now that I've commented, I can't mod you down.
Crap.