I wouldn't get too worried over MS actually following through with PD. The fact is that security is so often a trade off for functionality, and that MS has ususally errored on the side of functionality, not security. That's a tough habit to break. If they follow through with a "trusted" system, they are pretty much guaranteed to end up with a system that is not user friendly because it doesn't trust the user. I know this is a simplistic way of looking at the problem, but we've seen plenty of MS research that never left the ground and received plenty of hype.
Frankly, I can't see any practical reasons. The playstation of course has a MIPS processor, making it the most afordable MIPS platform for virgin embedded devlopers to play with. It's an excellent entry point for future MIPS developers. Obviously, anyone with ten cents can get there hands on an x86 box. Ultimately, the core of the xbox is not hardware, but software. MS is leveraging there DirectX technology, not Intel's x86 architecture. I'm all for Linux, and enjoy cross platform development. However, outside of hobbiest - we can run linux on the toaster - I'm not sure what practical purpose this has.
Leak your information to society's lowest common denominator. Go to middle-of-nowhere-town in Arizona and enlighten some toothless trailer park people about it. Spread the news around the various crankpot ogranizations out there. Nobody credible will believe them or you, but the idea will probably be serialized into bad sci-fi TV shows. Eventually, over half of the population will believe in the idea even though the reputible scientific comunity will refute it. At that point, you'll have given the government long enough for its secret organizations to have established the correct safety nets to handle the problem.
How about acting like a "criminal." I'm sure that Andovernet would prosecute anyone who DOS'd./ over a political disagreement. These DOS attacks are not justice, nor should the slashdot editorial staff take show immature and irresponsible sympathy to the culprits.
While I don't think China of today has all food shortages and water pollution problems, your basic point is well taken.
As long as the United States opens our doors to inovation and rewards success, the best and brightest of China will come to America and become Americans. Why? Because we hold certain truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal and have the right to the pursuit of happines. We believe that government should not be a body of men but a body of laws. And that government's only truth rests on the will of the people to choose how they are to be governed.
What the article suggests is that PCs and Macs are not evenly distributed through the population. Clearly, Mac owners are more educated because they'd typically be more wealthy considering the markup on Mac hardware. PC's have dominated the lowest end of the home computer market, thus dumbing the curve. If the article polled computer specialists, engineers, scientists and other techinicians, the results would have been considerably different.
Comparing Java performance to C is ludicrous, even with just-in-time native compilation of java byte code. The root cause is the extensive logical error checking in the VM's and the libraries. C code with propper compiler hints (i.e. restrict, etc) generates fewer instructions with an overall reduced cycle time.
Installation and running of java as compared to perl is no contest (on unix). Java requires extensive and neverending twiddling aroung with your path.
Java runs fast relative to the other super-high-level script languages used for web server.
Don't get me wrong. I love Java. It's no C. Find me one high performance enterprize embedded appliance (router, switch, etc) with anything other than the mgmt software written in Java (if that).
I don't pretend to know anything about Perl 6, and hopefully they are cleaning up Perl. However, I agree with your assessment of Perl 5: a thousand ways to do the same thing each using their own exclusive exotic ascii character combinations.
One has to wonder about the relative success of Java, given its horrific performance and obscene installation complexity. However, ultimately Java's success comes down to the lack of choices in the language syntax and a strong networking library.
Of course Java syntax is a simplification of C++, while Perl's roots are in shell scripts.
I wish there was a shell with the simple grace of C, the libraries and idiot proof installing packages of Perl, and the portability of bash.
The best were the endless views of a Soviet piece of shit car driving on highway overpasses with dubbed "jet-engine" sounds. The first half of the movie was nothing but the car driving.
The movie was completely stupid. That said, the very end was pretty cool. When, he's in the house and its raining indoors, then you realize he's still on the island.
Seems like if they could make the probe kinda warm it would eventually sink through any amount of ice
Good idea, but not necessarily. Ice packs tend to be dynamic flows with upwelling, downwelling and lateral movement. Metling say a few meters a day, would still take year or even more to reach the ocean below. In addition, the pressures below the ice pack will be immense once the liquid ocean is reached. Not to mention the giant pod eating monsters that probably lurk there.
One fun thing to do is to listen to their pitch. Every few seconds or so politely interrupt the sales person for one moment, turn away from the phone and yell with a thick redneck accent, "you f*@#ing whore!!! Get your $#@*! in the kitchen!" Then apologize to the sales person. Gradually escalate the interruptions by making beating sounds or having your girlfriend start crying or scream.
...It will also enable Linux to provide threading services that are more in line with the capabilities of the commerical Unix operating system such as IBM AIX and SGI IRIX.
I agree. The interface is not the current bottleneck to drive performance. ATA133 is giving a little breathing room for future drives. However, drives have a long way to go. Even the fastest high end SCSI drives barely push 50MB/s (with write caches on). The big gain with ATA 133 is the increased logical address space.
It is infeasible for a new competitor to arise because of the capital involved.
That's not true actually. The costs of design (not manufacture) are coming way down as simulation and development technologies streamline the design process. There is heavy competition in the microprocessor space for servers and networking chips. Intel and AMD's strangle hold on the PC and general server market is due to the overwelming developer support of the x86 platform, not the costs of developing new chips. Look at the Itanium. If it wasn't for the x86-64 they wouldn't be able to sell one of them. If you look at the embedded space, where developer support is less relevant, you'll see a wide spectrum of chip makers and healthy competition.
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That kids not taking off the Dell label! He's putting it on! And doesn't that look like Austin...
I wouldn't get too worried over MS actually following through with PD. The fact is that security is so often a trade off for functionality, and that MS has ususally errored on the side of functionality, not security. That's a tough habit to break. If they follow through with a "trusted" system, they are pretty much guaranteed to end up with a system that is not user friendly because it doesn't trust the user. I know this is a simplistic way of looking at the problem, but we've seen plenty of MS research that never left the ground and received plenty of hype.
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Frankly, I can't see any practical reasons. The playstation of course has a MIPS processor, making it the most afordable MIPS platform for virgin embedded devlopers to play with. It's an excellent entry point for future MIPS developers. Obviously, anyone with ten cents can get there hands on an x86 box. Ultimately, the core of the xbox is not hardware, but software. MS is leveraging there DirectX technology, not Intel's x86 architecture. I'm all for Linux, and enjoy cross platform development. However, outside of hobbiest - we can run linux on the toaster - I'm not sure what practical purpose this has.
Heston on beach: You bastards really did it! You factored primes in seconds!
Leak your information to society's lowest common denominator. Go to middle-of-nowhere-town in Arizona and enlighten some toothless trailer park people about it. Spread the news around the various crankpot ogranizations out there. Nobody credible will believe them or you, but the idea will probably be serialized into bad sci-fi TV shows. Eventually, over half of the population will believe in the idea even though the reputible scientific comunity will refute it. At that point, you'll have given the government long enough for its secret organizations to have established the correct safety nets to handle the problem.
Bill Thompson is such an asshole that if you ordered a train load of assholes and only he showed up, you wouldn't complain.
Thanks for reminding me, Bill, why my ancestors left that ever diminishing and less relevant mound in the North Atlantic to come to America.
10. Java 2 isn't big enough.
9. Cool 3D-glasses marketing gimick potential
8. We can all complain more when MS doesn't support it.
7. Library need another complete overhaul of the GUI classes.
6. Add in all of the C/C++ features that we're left out.
5. O'Rielly can sell another series of books (how about a fungus?).
4. Since all of the people who know Java 2 are unemployed, this project will keep them off the streets and out of trouble.
3. Java doesn't have enough incompatibility issues as it is. We need to level the playing field.
2. 'Cause the alternative is caving in to C#.
1. Emacs is better than vi.
How about acting like a "criminal." I'm sure that Andovernet would prosecute anyone who DOS'd ./ over a political disagreement. These DOS attacks are not justice, nor should the slashdot editorial staff take show immature and irresponsible sympathy to the culprits.
I think Orwell was more afraid of Socialism than technology.
While I don't think China of today has all food shortages and water pollution problems, your basic point is well taken.
As long as the United States opens our doors to inovation and rewards success, the best and brightest of China will come to America and become Americans. Why? Because we hold certain truths to be self-evident, that all people are created equal and have the right to the pursuit of happines. We believe that government should not be a body of men but a body of laws. And that government's only truth rests on the will of the people to choose how they are to be governed.
What the article suggests is that PCs and Macs are not evenly distributed through the population. Clearly, Mac owners are more educated because they'd typically be more wealthy considering the markup on Mac hardware. PC's have dominated the lowest end of the home computer market, thus dumbing the curve. If the article polled computer specialists, engineers, scientists and other techinicians, the results would have been considerably different.
Comparing Java performance to C is ludicrous, even with just-in-time native compilation of java byte code. The root cause is the extensive logical error checking in the VM's and the libraries. C code with propper compiler hints (i.e. restrict, etc) generates fewer instructions with an overall reduced cycle time.
Installation and running of java as compared to perl is no contest (on unix). Java requires extensive and neverending twiddling aroung with your path.
Java runs fast relative to the other super-high-level script languages used for web server.
Don't get me wrong. I love Java. It's no C. Find me one high performance enterprize embedded appliance (router, switch, etc) with anything other than the mgmt software written in Java (if that).
I don't pretend to know anything about Perl 6, and hopefully they are cleaning up Perl. However, I agree with your assessment of Perl 5: a thousand ways to do the same thing each using their own exclusive exotic ascii character combinations.
One has to wonder about the relative success of Java, given its horrific performance and obscene installation complexity. However, ultimately Java's success comes down to the lack of choices in the language syntax and a strong networking library.
Of course Java syntax is a simplification of C++, while Perl's roots are in shell scripts.
I wish there was a shell with the simple grace of C, the libraries and idiot proof installing packages of Perl, and the portability of bash.
The best were the endless views of a Soviet piece of shit car driving on highway overpasses with dubbed "jet-engine" sounds. The first half of the movie was nothing but the car driving.
The movie was completely stupid. That said, the very end was pretty cool. When, he's in the house and its raining indoors, then you realize he's still on the island.
Please note that the patch provided by ISS does not correct this vulnerability.
Will upgrading to 32-bit color on my hard drive fix it or do I need to upgrade my monitor refresh rate to 512MB?
You can't beat Gary Gygax's random dungeon algorithms from the back of the original Dungeon Masters' Guide.
Good idea, but not necessarily. Ice packs tend to be dynamic flows with upwelling, downwelling and lateral movement. Metling say a few meters a day, would still take year or even more to reach the ocean below. In addition, the pressures below the ice pack will be immense once the liquid ocean is reached. Not to mention the giant pod eating monsters that probably lurk there.
One fun thing to do is to listen to their pitch. Every few seconds or so politely interrupt the sales person for one moment, turn away from the phone and yell with a thick redneck accent, "you f*@#ing whore!!! Get your $#@*! in the kitchen!" Then apologize to the sales person. Gradually escalate the interruptions by making beating sounds or having your girlfriend start crying or scream.
Cough - no mention of sun threads (Solaris).
I agree. The interface is not the current bottleneck to drive performance. ATA133 is giving a little breathing room for future drives. However, drives have a long way to go. Even the fastest high end SCSI drives barely push 50MB/s (with write caches on). The big gain with ATA 133 is the increased logical address space.
The same could be said about most system admins too.
The nightmare is waking up and realizing that you wasted a million dollars on a SunFire 4800.
That's not true actually. The costs of design (not manufacture) are coming way down as simulation and development technologies streamline the design process. There is heavy competition in the microprocessor space for servers and networking chips. Intel and AMD's strangle hold on the PC and general server market is due to the overwelming developer support of the x86 platform, not the costs of developing new chips. Look at the Itanium. If it wasn't for the x86-64 they wouldn't be able to sell one of them. If you look at the embedded space, where developer support is less relevant, you'll see a wide spectrum of chip makers and healthy competition.
a total loss of 15,000 more jobs with over 150,000 following the next two years.
The combined payroll of both companies is 150,000.