Yes, as a possible solution to a problem he himself as created. As far as I cana make out he seems to be saying (between the lines) "I have been barking up the wrong tree"
Instead of wasting time on doing the same, why not forge ahead and have something working out of the door first.
The "Microsoft Network" lost out to internet because W95 shipped too late. Let's do the same with Longhorn!
It is interesting that he acknowledges Mozilla's work. XUL has the potential to supply a platform that could nullify Longhown's advantage before it hits the streets.
The problem is not just authorization. There is a tendency to plug for compatibility with the others rather than establish it's own standard.
Imagine if, instead of saying "works as an NT server" you say "just install this little driver on windows and you get and open standards domain".
I think most sysadmins would not mind having to install an OSS network driver on windows if it could solve thier domain woes, which of course it could if......
Potentially one could distribute make scripts that would optimize the build of critical sections on installation.
It's a feature on top of the existing advantages of "compiling into" instead of "installing onto" a system, and a feature that is pretty much esclusive to OSS.
Soon we won't even be able to use a search engine. I ried reading the PDF and gave up trying to understand what the implications are!
Know why asian economies are leaping ahead by leaps and bounds? You just go out and do things, without millions of lawyers and others trying to leech of the whole business.
" General Motors owns Vauxhall and Opel, they are not interchangeable."
Nowdays they are just trade marks and they are interchangable. For example, in the UK the GM range is sold under the Vauxhall name (many people think it is british!), the **same** range is sold in Italy under the Opel trademark, and most Italians have never even heard of Vauxhall.
In both countries GM is perceived as a remote US company that makes non european cars such as ghetto cruisers, pick up, and SUV's.
Just by Ironic twist, most Vauxhall/Opel utilities have FIAT drivetrains!
Seeing as how we have pedantic trolls around........The Fiat group (which includes amongst other things IVECO trucks and New Holland tractors) owns Fiat automotive, which own the FIAT, Lancia and Alfa Romeo brands). The Fiat group has, as a seperate enitity from Fiat automotive, an approx 50% dtake in Ferrari (which, BTW, also owns Maserati). Ferrari is a sperate entity (hand building sports cars is after all very different from mass producing utilities), but they are related not only by stocks but by management. Most specifically, Motezemolo (the President of Ferrari) also sits on the Fiat automotive board.
And before anybody opens another can of worms.....General Motors (or Vauxhall or OPEL depending where you live) owns 20% of FIAT automotive, not the FIAT group, and has zero connection with Ferrari.
Just to complicate the issue, Metezemolo would like to take Alfa Romeo from FIAT automotive and attach it to Ferrari with the aim of making Alfa Romeos more of a specialist sports car producer rather than a mass producer.
Just keep thinking where I am I going to put my bottleneck now!
Take your hires camera example. Hires CCD's actually offload thier data via multiple channels corresponding to different sectors (just as bif LCD's are split into areas driven by different chips).
Instead of combining the data into one data stream you pipe it into multiple video frame handlers on an ASIC, and you may also pipe it out via multiple fibre channels.
Lot's of connectors? Not necessarily, given the telecom industries use of multi fibre cables, multi channel fibre connectors have been developed for patch cabling. AFAIK they have not (yet) been deployed but the principle is simple....the fibres sink into a head that has multiple zones contained by internal refraction.
This is the sort of technology that can be made very cheaply **if** there were a big market demand.
Ah yes but Mastercard has a magnetic stripe on the back so there is a limit to how fast you can swipe it through the reader.
Perhaps the banks had anticipated the increase in consumer credit card usage and the magnetic bandwidth limit when they designed the system, hence the decision to put 4 paralell tracks.
I think we will have memory that is able to permanently modify the ionic structure of a molecule in a memory cell. The storage will be permanent and fast to both read and write.
Massive arrays of the will serve as a common memry block used both for working memory and storage memory.
Of course there will also be a thoretical limit to the bandwidth of these cells and any other means, as if nothing else there will be the time necessary to traverse the matrix.
But paralellism like we allready use can nullify any limits.
Windows 95 does not have drivers for most soundcards
It is easy to download and install a driver for W95.
Linux distros contain many drivers for sound and printers and other.
It is not easy for a supplier to make a single file available that users can download and install onto a distro, even just the subset intended for desktop users and not hackers.
Why the exclamation marks? Sounds like quite a bit of current to me. If you measure 100mV with a typical cheap DVM the input current is 10 nano Amps.
I have worked with off the shelf devices from Analog which have offset currents of 75 falto amps.
Not trying to be cynical, but 1 AMP is 1 Coulomb per second, and a coulomb, IIRC is somthing like 10^18 electrons. So measuring the odd electron jumping across a gap must require very small currents.....unless of course you are measuring them for a very small time.
The latter case would make things more difficult, somehow you have to fill the gate of a FET (of course I assume they are allready under bias;-) ), but it dosn't leave much scope for averaging and noise would be a problem.
Perhaps you just modulate a signal a see the minimum charge to make them flick back and forth? But that would not allow the nano tech stuff! I am sure there is a lot of liquid nitrogen in these sets-ups!
BTW, I have always been intrigued by the possibility of moving individual electrons. I know dedicated DIY astronomers make there own 8 and 12 inch reflectors by hand grinding glass for months, and other DIY'ers build there own rockets. How plausible would be to build your own tunneling electron microscope! I am serious here.
Come on now....own up to your virtual sins. Otherwise you will be sent to Dante's virtual inferno where BSD deamons are condemmed to burn Windows CD's for eternity and SCO executives abound to slap lawsuits on everthing you do.
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Yes, as a possible solution to a problem he himself as created. As far as I cana make out he seems to be saying (between the lines) "I have been barking up the wrong tree"
Free beer to the first person to install it!
The "Microsoft Network" lost out to internet because W95 shipped too late. Let's do the same with Longhorn!
It is interesting that he acknowledges Mozilla's work. XUL has the potential to supply a platform that could nullify Longhown's advantage before it hits the streets.
Imagine if, instead of saying "works as an NT server" you say "just install this little driver on windows and you get and open standards domain".
I think most sysadmins would not mind having to install an OSS network driver on windows if it could solve thier domain woes, which of course it could if......
It's a feature on top of the existing advantages of "compiling into" instead of "installing onto" a system, and a feature that is pretty much esclusive to OSS.
Know why asian economies are leaping ahead by leaps and bounds? You just go out and do things, without millions of lawyers and others trying to leech of the whole business.
In both countries GM is perceived as a remote US company that makes non european cars such as ghetto cruisers, pick up, and SUV's.
Just by Ironic twist, most Vauxhall/Opel utilities have FIAT drivetrains!
Not so long back the US could bring down all it's might on single countries just a fraction of it's size.
And before anybody opens another can of worms.....General Motors (or Vauxhall or OPEL depending where you live) owns 20% of FIAT automotive, not the FIAT group, and has zero connection with Ferrari.
Just to complicate the issue, Metezemolo would like to take Alfa Romeo from FIAT automotive and attach it to Ferrari with the aim of making Alfa Romeos more of a specialist sports car producer rather than a mass producer.
You see, I too can rant off topic.
Mac is about the desktop, why not use cheap bland hardware for backend muling.
And that is how it should be, we should be able to select the type of hardware for the job in hand, the software should run wherever it is required.
If only.....
"Or are you just making things up."
Just making things up, the original post said "Ideas" and I started off with "I think". /. is not the place for scientific papers.
"You either love being incredibly vague, or you copied some buzzwords"
Or I just extrapolated what people are currently working on into what I think the future would be, Sci Fi writers make a living out of doing this.
"Moderators, where are you?"
They are too busy marking down Asimov as a troll!
Take your hires camera example. Hires CCD's actually offload thier data via multiple channels corresponding to different sectors (just as bif LCD's are split into areas driven by different chips).
Instead of combining the data into one data stream you pipe it into multiple video frame handlers on an ASIC, and you may also pipe it out via multiple fibre channels.
Lot's of connectors? Not necessarily, given the telecom industries use of multi fibre cables, multi channel fibre connectors have been developed for patch cabling. AFAIK they have not (yet) been deployed but the principle is simple....the fibres sink into a head that has multiple zones contained by internal refraction.
This is the sort of technology that can be made very cheaply **if** there were a big market demand.
Perhaps the banks had anticipated the increase in consumer credit card usage and the magnetic bandwidth limit when they designed the system, hence the decision to put 4 paralell tracks.
Massive arrays of the will serve as a common memry block used both for working memory and storage memory.
Of course there will also be a thoretical limit to the bandwidth of these cells and any other means, as if nothing else there will be the time necessary to traverse the matrix.
But paralellism like we allready use can nullify any limits.
RAID arrays, SMP, GPRS, Data MUX's that use paralell fibre channels are all examples.
No, your mixed up. "12345" is the code for launching nuclear missiles.
Whatever happened to Star Trek?
Beam me up scotty......before the flames hit!
Any help will be gratefully recieved and results will be shared with all. Oh boy will they be shared........
Cannot get it to work under Debian, or Slakware (9.1). Didn't even bother trying when I was checking out an old FreeBSD distro!
It is easy to download and install a driver for W95.
Linux distros contain many drivers for sound and printers and other.
It is not easy for a supplier to make a single file available that users can download and install onto a distro, even just the subset intended for desktop users and not hackers.
Of course would you do an IT course today? NO, the only people studying IT are the sort of people who might be attracted by the games issue.
It is the dumbing down of western society while the asian one wakes up.
Give it a couple of decades and the asian market will be able to charge what it likes, there will be no western competion or competence.
BTW, an increasing quantity of these fancy cars are also made in the asian markets, with lots of fancy trickworks to cover play it down.
Joking apart, I realise this. Would you believe if I told you I would like to take up lanscape garding or run a plant nursery/garden shop!
Before long people will be sending thier cars to India to get them fixed ;-)
Why the exclamation marks? Sounds like quite a bit of current to me. If you measure 100mV with a typical cheap DVM the input current is 10 nano Amps.
I have worked with off the shelf devices from Analog which have offset currents of 75 falto amps.
Not trying to be cynical, but 1 AMP is 1 Coulomb per second, and a coulomb, IIRC is somthing like 10^18 electrons. So measuring the odd electron jumping across a gap must require very small currents.....unless of course you are measuring them for a very small time.
The latter case would make things more difficult, somehow you have to fill the gate of a FET (of course I assume they are allready under bias;-) ), but it dosn't leave much scope for averaging and noise would be a problem.
Perhaps you just modulate a signal a see the minimum charge to make them flick back and forth? But that would not allow the nano tech stuff! I am sure there is a lot of liquid nitrogen in these sets-ups! BTW, I have always been intrigued by the possibility of moving individual electrons. I know dedicated DIY astronomers make there own 8 and 12 inch reflectors by hand grinding glass for months, and other DIY'ers build there own rockets. How plausible would be to build your own tunneling electron microscope! I am serious here.
Sorry, I'm getting a bit carried away.