Yes and no. Yes, the air is not THAT thin, but first there is a big difference in the security requirements between 21th century airlines and WWII military aviation. Second, the A330 has a very different (and more fuel efficient) wing profile from the B-29, which stalls at only 91kts.
At 37000 feets the air is so thin that the range between the cruise speed and stall speed is relatively small. In other words, you need an autopilot to fly in that altitude. So a dive after an autopilot disconnect makes sense, although it's questionable if has to be so strong that some passengers get hurt.
Your remark makes only sense for certain kind of software, means non-critical software. Would you like the code driving the autopilot of the plane you're in to be open-source? Or the next nuclear plant control software? Software is not just innocent desktop widgets, it can be very important, and errors can cause death. In all these cases, people have very good reasons to object open source. But as software stacks are getting always bigger, it becomes difficulter to know where open source is. I really think Gartner is right. Of course, open source can be included in some critical dev processes too, but it doesn't happen in a day.
BS. The whole east of Europe (new EU members) have less IT graduates (~10000-11000) each year than Germany does (~12000). Do you consider it a lot? Take a look at the numbers about India first...
Did you try to see if your known brokerage applications are running under Linux with Wine ? This can be a good tool to make a transition to Linux without losing all the facilities you had under Windows...
It seems to me that peoples gives much more importance to life that in the past (at least in our occidental and rich world). As the hope of living older is always increasing, people can't accept anymore than other people can die before the age of 70/80. We are tending to an always more secure world, and then always less accept problems. Sure, it makes us lose some opportunities that need some risk. This is a choice.
The problem with Hubble is that you have to send the space shuttle each time there is a problem with it. So this is quite a little constraint...
If this is possible to do telescopes on earth that can have the same quality as Hubble(I mean, the quality that would have the successor of the Hubble...), then it's pretty interesting because it will be cheaper at the end (maintenance, upgrading, etc). Even if they need huge mirrors for it.
You don't need to have multi-threaded apps to make a good use of a dual-core processor. Only you OS has to handle dual-core CPU
Typical example : a scientist can have his simulation running on his desktop workstation while compiling a latex file, but at the same time the other desktop applications would still be as fast as they use to be.
As far as I know, the mainboards and all the stuff that still has to come with the Cell processor are still in development phase ; so don't expect to have facts right now from IBM. We will have to wait that the hardware comes to the market. I'm very curious too to finally know what this processor is really able to do.
The Cell is basically a Vector Processor. So it's not gonna be really fast for compiling or such things like that. IBM just took the opportunity of the PS3 to develop the perfect processor for super-computing (whose task are often matrix-based). Server with cell ? No advantage, or so few. Games ? Becomes interesting, but that's all. Supercomputing ? Here you are.
I have to say, this Cell is really a great marketing coup ! Everyone is speaking of this processor, even in the biggest newspapers of the mainstream press... Not really seen that for a few years !
You must be new here. Did you ever see Lotus in action ? This is a damned app ! FireFox isn't ! If IBM can support Lotus Notes, they can support Firefox...
Sure. Bash, Perl, Python, ksh,... On of the UNIX principles is (or, rather, should be, because it seems sometimes to be forgotten) : under each GUI you have a CLI. Then you don't need to automate a GUI. Scripting give you much more freedom and power.
You're right. The only question I was asking is: is it really a milestone ? There are surely a lot of interesting people working this project. But I don't get much informations here but these 50.000.000 downloads. Maybe there should be ways to give the users more original news. I would like to here about the people that built this New-York-Time ad. I would like to hear about the people that implemented this wonderfull Popup-blocker ! I would like to know who designed the interface. Sure, the community needs to be better known, are you sure this way is the best ? This is like: X sold 2 millions CDs. I hear that ten times everyday, and I would like some meaningfull informations, that's all.
But, anyway, thanks to the community, this is good sofware.
I don't know what I can answer to such a stupid post. Don't you ignorant know they are other languages in the world, the majority of them don't even have writing system ? Do you really thing your english is 'superior' ?
The parent was interesting; that's my biggest worry in fact.And what about the open formats google is using ?
I'm French. And I CAN tell you, people who live in Paris are NOT normal french ! They're much more inpolite, and believe they are the center of the world.Repulsing, mainly for the others French !!!
But to make something clear : It's not because a lot of French people can READ english that they can actually understand SPOKEN english (and, much more difficult, american !!!). So, if you're american, don't be angry if they have problems to speak with you or look at you in a strange way. Don't get fooled by the charmant accent of the waitress ; she's just very bad in english, and if her accent sounds very nice to you, it's not important how good your english is, she will not understand it anyway unless you have a very good frenchy accent...
The cause to that could be that, at school, we only learn to write and read, and so little to speak and understand ! There is absolutely NO phonology in the english school's courses !! I did heard for the first time of phonology of english at the university... After 5 years of learning english.
And finally, take distance with what french say to you. There a lot of dumb french people, you will sure meet one of them in a travel to France. But the people are simply very frankly, they say and show you what they think. Even the negative. But when it's positive, it's really positive ; this a different culture, like Asia or Africa. Take it as it is.
Well, if you had Windows on this machine (but be serious, please !)... This would only be one every 64 nodes. I explain why.
Blue Gene is known to run Linux. True, but... In fact, there are two types of nodes in Blue Gene. The computing nodes and the IO nodes. There is 1 IO node for 63 computing nodes. So for a 64000 nodes cluster, there are in fact only 1000 processors that runs Linux. The other 63000 are running an ultra light runtime environment (with MPI and other essential things) to maximize the speed. Even Linux is too heavy for that ! So windows would maybe not make the performances so bad... But I don't believe IBM didn't ever considered this option !
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Yes and no. Yes, the air is not THAT thin, but first there is a big difference in the security requirements between 21th century airlines and WWII military aviation. Second, the A330 has a very different (and more fuel efficient) wing profile from the B-29, which stalls at only 91kts.
At 37000 feets the air is so thin that the range between the cruise speed and stall speed is relatively small. In other words, you need an autopilot to fly in that altitude. So a dive after an autopilot disconnect makes sense, although it's questionable if has to be so strong that some passengers get hurt.
Your remark makes only sense for certain kind of software, means non-critical software. Would you like the code driving the autopilot of the plane you're in to be open-source? Or the next nuclear plant control software? Software is not just innocent desktop widgets, it can be very important, and errors can cause death. In all these cases, people have very good reasons to object open source. But as software stacks are getting always bigger, it becomes difficulter to know where open source is. I really think Gartner is right. Of course, open source can be included in some critical dev processes too, but it doesn't happen in a day.
BS. The whole east of Europe (new EU members) have less IT graduates (~10000-11000) each year than Germany does (~12000). Do you consider it a lot? Take a look at the numbers about India first...
Please don't blaspheme RMS !!!
Did you try to see if your known brokerage applications are running under Linux with Wine ? This can be a good tool to make a transition to Linux without losing all the facilities you had under Windows...
Please make a permanent story of it and integrate the Firefox live counter in Slashdot !
It seems to me that peoples gives much more importance to life that in the past (at least in our occidental and rich world). As the hope of living older is always increasing, people can't accept anymore than other people can die before the age of 70/80.
We are tending to an always more secure world, and then always less accept problems. Sure, it makes us lose some opportunities that need some risk. This is a choice.
The problem with Hubble is that you have to send the space shuttle each time there is a problem with it. So this is quite a little constraint...
If this is possible to do telescopes on earth that can have the same quality as Hubble(I mean, the quality that would have the successor of the Hubble...), then it's pretty interesting because it will be cheaper at the end (maintenance, upgrading, etc). Even if they need huge mirrors for it.
You don't need to have multi-threaded apps to make a good use of a dual-core processor. Only you OS has to handle dual-core CPU
Typical example : a scientist can have his simulation running on his desktop workstation while compiling a latex file, but at the same time the other desktop applications would still be as fast as they use to be.
Did you know there is a lot of open source on windows with install-shield wizards ?
As far as I know, the mainboards and all the stuff that still has to come with the Cell processor are still in development phase ; so don't expect to have facts right now from IBM. We will have to wait that the hardware comes to the market. I'm very curious too to finally know what this processor is really able to do.
The Cell is basically a Vector Processor. So it's not gonna be really fast for compiling or such things like that. IBM just took the opportunity of the PS3 to develop the perfect processor for super-computing (whose task are often matrix-based). Server with cell ? No advantage, or so few. Games ? Becomes interesting, but that's all. Supercomputing ? Here you are.
I have to say, this Cell is really a great marketing coup ! Everyone is speaking of this processor, even in the biggest newspapers of the mainstream press... Not really seen that for a few years !
You must be new here. Did you ever see Lotus in action ? This is a damned app ! FireFox isn't ! If IBM can support Lotus Notes, they can support Firefox...
Sure. Bash, Perl, Python, ksh,...
On of the UNIX principles is (or, rather, should be, because it seems sometimes to be forgotten) : under each GUI you have a CLI. Then you don't need to automate a GUI. Scripting give you much more freedom and power.
Morse Code Faster Than RMS
Sorry
But, anyway, thanks to the community, this is good sofware.
Of course I meant not 'greater' but 'bigger'...
1. The market share
2. The community's active participation into the project.
I don't see what it brings to say there is '50.000.000' downloads, this is just marketing for the average user.
A former prime-minister who can understand the Open-Source and IT, it only deserves respect !
My Gentoo has a package media-libs/flac, which is an encoder and a plugin for xmms.
After that, it's just a question of writing a little script...
Not your courage, obviously.
I don't know what I can answer to such a stupid post. Don't you ignorant know they are other languages in the world, the majority of them don't even have writing system ? Do you really thing your english is 'superior' ? The parent was interesting; that's my biggest worry in fact.And what about the open formats google is using ?
I'm French. And I CAN tell you, people who live in Paris are NOT normal french ! They're much more inpolite, and believe they are the center of the world.Repulsing, mainly for the others French !!!
But to make something clear : It's not because a lot of French people can READ english that they can actually understand SPOKEN english (and, much more difficult, american !!!). So, if you're american, don't be angry if they have problems to speak with you or look at you in a strange way. Don't get fooled by the charmant accent of the waitress ; she's just very bad in english, and if her accent sounds very nice to you, it's not important how good your english is, she will not understand it anyway unless you have a very good frenchy accent...
The cause to that could be that, at school, we only learn to write and read, and so little to speak and understand ! There is absolutely NO phonology in the english school's courses !! I did heard for the first time of phonology of english at the university... After 5 years of learning english.
And finally, take distance with what french say to you. There a lot of dumb french people, you will sure meet one of them in a travel to France. But the people are simply very frankly, they say and show you what they think. Even the negative. But when it's positive, it's really positive ; this a different culture, like Asia or Africa. Take it as it is.
Well, if you had Windows on this machine (but be serious, please !)... This would only be one every 64 nodes. I explain why.
Blue Gene is known to run Linux. True, but... In fact, there are two types of nodes in Blue Gene. The computing nodes and the IO nodes. There is 1 IO node for 63 computing nodes. So for a 64000 nodes cluster, there are in fact only 1000 processors that runs Linux. The other 63000 are running an ultra light runtime environment (with MPI and other essential things) to maximize the speed. Even Linux is too heavy for that ! So windows would maybe not make the performances so bad... But I don't believe IBM didn't ever considered this option !