What if you're rushing someone to the hospital. This is exactly the kind of "good intention" government crap that ends up screwing up peoples lives (like taxes!).
What enterprize is going to use.NET? It's completely incompatible with anything other than Microsoft platforms! If Microsoft really believes that Biztalk is going to solve its interoperability problems, the've got a serious wake up call coming to them.
If the 2B$ industry requires a different branch of kernel development, it will do so. Obviously, as of now, it doesn't. Now, as for replacing CmdTaco, we may have something.
I couldn't agree with this more. Why does Slashdot even bother posting these kinds of useless articles. Let's wait for the optimized 64 bit code generated by an Intel compiler, before we piss away our time worrying about 32 bit code. All bets are that it will be a piece of crap and no Sparc. However, let's give them the benefit of the doubt until the relevant facts are in.
latency. 8 simple CPUs running SMP would have astronomical latency for missed cache hits, and would probably sit idle most of the time. A single CPU (on the die) running SMT utilizes the latency time, by performing both paths of a branch, before the branch condition (an possible cache hit/miss) is resolved. Essentially, the CPU running SMT is more effective in a memory latency environment, an ever growing problem with these new 1+Ghz chips.
I understand your point. However, why not let the market do this for us. Word is case and point. Nobody is going to store a word document in a database. Distributed computing will demand that the format be parsible and well-formed. When a business would like to catagorize, search-enable and archive its docs, they won't want to use MSWord.
I appriciate the arguement, and recognize its temptations. However, your example, Accounting, is a classic case against government enforcement. Accouting is the most convoluted, outrageous set of standards and priciples that anyone ever could have dreamed up. While they were implemented with the best intentions, the rules of accounting have become a beaurocratic nightmare far more frightening than Microsoft. I have a hard time diferentiating enforcement from definitions. Government writes the law and enforces it.
Do we really want our government defining and enforcing protocols and standards for operating systems, desktop software and networking protocols? I'm no fan of Microsoft, but keep the government out of protocols and standards. I don't want to "elect" the best operating system, the best network protocol, the best script language, etc.
Absolutely correct. This idea is ludicrous. You need hard storage back-up. The parity failure rate of DRAM vs. a hard disk should be enough to mandate this.
Please people. If you don't allow for intellectual property and spesifically the ability to profit from that property, what is the alternative? Academia? gnu* and emacs are great for us, but my mom isn't going to use them. Do you really think Microsoft and Macintosh would have developed their software for free? While I agree that some of these patents are outrageous, that doesn't invalidate the principle of intellectual property outright. Free software serves the interest of the people who work on the software. Proprietary software serves the interest of the guy who pays for it.
NASA budget is determined by the three powerful states California, Texas and Florida. Not by politcal parties but by pure politics. Increase NASA's budget. So we can spend 600 million dollars on each shuttle launch? What a farse! Where's the science? Fruit in space? Geriatrics in space? Give me a break. Manned missions should have ended with the moon.
interviewie: "The langauges that I have years of experience with and am deeply familiar with are of course the best languages and most suited towards what ever job it is that you have in mind for me."
Biztalk is based on SOAP. Sun is backing the Apache projects xerces and xalan packages. Apache also makes a SOAP module. Seems like there is some common ground here.
There's a difference between bitching as you call it and being disappointed. I'm not interested in implementing SMP on any of the BSD's, because linux works pretty well, and if I'm going to use more than 8 CPU's I should be able to afford Solaris. However, if any of the BSD's are every going to get past running my router and my firewall, they'll need some support for SMP.
Imagine all of the engineering time, the decades of training and preperation, the pressure and danger, just to get up into orbit, get on the space station and just grow Broccoli and feed lab rats.
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What if you're rushing someone to the hospital. This is exactly the kind of "good intention" government crap that ends up screwing up peoples lives (like taxes!).
What enterprize is going to use .NET? It's completely incompatible with anything other than Microsoft platforms! If Microsoft really believes that Biztalk is going to solve its interoperability problems, the've got a serious wake up call coming to them.
How about taking a couple Cray supercomps, and installing Beowolf on all of them. It would be a cluster of Crays.
If the 2B$ industry requires a different branch of kernel development, it will do so. Obviously, as of now, it doesn't. Now, as for replacing CmdTaco, we may have something.
Obviously, there is way too much VC money out there.
I couldn't agree with this more. Why does Slashdot even bother posting these kinds of useless articles. Let's wait for the optimized 64 bit code generated by an Intel compiler, before we piss away our time worrying about 32 bit code. All bets are that it will be a piece of crap and no Sparc. However, let's give them the benefit of the doubt until the relevant facts are in.
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These guys are in violation of my patent!.
:)latency. 8 simple CPUs running SMP would have astronomical latency for missed cache hits, and would probably sit idle most of the time. A single CPU (on the die) running SMT utilizes the latency time, by performing both paths of a branch, before the branch condition (an possible cache hit/miss) is resolved. Essentially, the CPU running SMT is more effective in a memory latency environment, an ever growing problem with these new 1+Ghz chips.
I understand your point. However, why not let the market do this for us. Word is case and point. Nobody is going to store a word document in a database. Distributed computing will demand that the format be parsible and well-formed. When a business would like to catagorize, search-enable and archive its docs, they won't want to use MSWord.
I appriciate the arguement, and recognize its temptations. However, your example, Accounting, is a classic case against government enforcement. Accouting is the most convoluted, outrageous set of standards and priciples that anyone ever could have dreamed up. While they were implemented with the best intentions, the rules of accounting have become a beaurocratic nightmare far more frightening than Microsoft. I have a hard time diferentiating enforcement from definitions. Government writes the law and enforces it.
Do we really want our government defining and enforcing protocols and standards for operating systems, desktop software and networking protocols? I'm no fan of Microsoft, but keep the government out of protocols and standards. I don't want to "elect" the best operating system, the best network protocol, the best script language, etc.
Absolutely correct. This idea is ludicrous. You need hard storage back-up. The parity failure rate of DRAM vs. a hard disk should be enough to mandate this.
Please people. If you don't allow for intellectual property and spesifically the ability to profit from that property, what is the alternative? Academia? gnu* and emacs are great for us, but my mom isn't going to use them. Do you really think Microsoft and Macintosh would have developed their software for free? While I agree that some of these patents are outrageous, that doesn't invalidate the principle of intellectual property outright. Free software serves the interest of the people who work on the software. Proprietary software serves the interest of the guy who pays for it.
NASA budget is determined by the three powerful states California, Texas and Florida. Not by politcal parties but by pure politics. Increase NASA's budget. So we can spend 600 million dollars on each shuttle launch? What a farse! Where's the science? Fruit in space? Geriatrics in space? Give me a break. Manned missions should have ended with the moon.
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Here are some other military applications for common toys:
TickleMeElmo: incendiary explosive
Lego Mindstorm: A1 Abrams Tank
Teletubbies Video Tapes psychological warefare
Pokemon: fusion bomb
ribbon audio tech is far from dead. Check out these totally killer high-fi ribbon speakers!
749Ghz CPU (only one, don't try two or more)
100Tb of Hard Drive space(see section on SCSI drivers)
10Tb of available RAM (100Tb suggested)
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interviewie: "The langauges that I have years of experience with and am deeply familiar with are of course the best languages and most suited towards what ever job it is that you have in mind for me."
Biztalk is based on SOAP. Sun is backing the Apache projects xerces and xalan packages. Apache also makes a SOAP module. Seems like there is some common ground here.
There's a difference between bitching as you call it and being disappointed. I'm not interested in implementing SMP on any of the BSD's, because linux works pretty well, and if I'm going to use more than 8 CPU's I should be able to afford Solaris. However, if any of the BSD's are every going to get past running my router and my firewall, they'll need some support for SMP.
sigh...sigh...sigh...
// PaperClip.cpp
void ThreadFunc(void* p)
{
const int nBigMem = 4096000;
char foo[nBigMem] = { 0 };
while(true) {
memset((void*)foo, 42, nBigMem);
}
}
void PaperClip()
{
for(int i = 0; i CPU_Ghz; i++) {
begin_thread(ThreadFunc, 0);
}
}
A wonderful quick read. Its amazing how the guy invents the thing, and gets no credit until he's almost dead.
Imagine all of the engineering time, the decades of training and preperation, the pressure and danger, just to get up into orbit, get on the space station and just grow Broccoli and feed lab rats .
I think I would need one fully Spark III E10000, maxed out with 64 CPUs. Actually, I'd need two of 'em.