This just seems like a half-assed solution to the problem. What they should really do is build some sort of security into their scripting products. Kinda like a Java sandbox. But no... that would restrict their "freedom to innovate"... more like freedom to ruin your hard drive.
Well, imagine if this stuff was as fast as (or even faster than) memory is now. This stuff could be the "memory" and the "hard drive" and the "CPU cache"... or maybe there wouldn't be a difference anymore. Having a CPU attached to a square inch of that stuff means you have a CPU with memory and nonvolitle storage that equals 40GB... that would pave the way for more lower cost PCs.
Besides... saying that this technology wouldn't be useful and no one would care is just like saying that no one will ever need more that 640k RAM.
I am completely fed up with both the Federal government and my State government (which is Maryland, btw...) Everytime the government imposes a new tax on us, our freedom gets squeezed just a little bit more. An internet tax is a tax on interstate commerce... which I thought was something the federal government couldn't do... but then again, income tax used to be unconstitutional. How much longer are the American people going to just sit there and let these idiots take our money by illegal means (hey sounds like stealing doesn't it). Now, don't get me wrong. I know that there are a lot of things that we need tax money to pay for (Military, Education, highways, etc...) but there are a hell of a lot of things that we don't need to pay for. The first one is a huge organization called the IRS. This organization is around only to make sure every taxpayer follows a totally ridiculous tax code that is larger than an encyclopedia. Seems to me that simplifying the tax code could eliminate the need for such a huge bureaucracy. Government waste is another issue. I've heard that almost half of all money set aside for welfare goes to the bureaucracy that runs it rather than paying out benefits. So why was turning this over to the states to handle a bad thing? Maybe 50 state governments can handle it better than one huge bloated government with way too much money and power. I don't mind paying taxes... but I do mind having over a third of my paycheck taken from me and used to support government waste. I am a registered Republican... but I believe that in most cases, the people in office need to be kicked out. There needs to be term limits for Congressmen and Senators so that no lawmaker is in office long enough to be bullied by the status quo. Our government is corrupt... needs to be refreshed. Holding a public office is supposed to be serving your country... not a career. Sorry for rambling. I'm just tired of the government looking for new ways to tax us. We are already overtaxed. And I don't want to hear any of our European friends give me shit about making that statement. Just saying that we pay less than you, doesn't mean that both of us are not getting screwed by our governments.
I love how they admit that they ignored memory efficency and performance until the 3.5 release... even though they claim NT is faster than anything else on the market. What a crock.
Isn't Excel a Lotus 1-2-3 rip off? They haven't "invented" anything. Everything they do is based off some other piece of software written years ago by somebody else. The only difference is a pretty interface and shitty code underneath.
See there you go again... making stupid comments that don't say anything. Yeah, I've heard of C++. Ok, so maybe it's not the best OO language in the world... but you are making a comment about a concept "object oriented programming" based on one (arguably crappy) implementation of it.
I think it is totally ridiculous that people are fighting over these two stupid and uncreative domain names in the first place. Frankly, I'm tired of all the e* and i* buzzwords, company names, and trademarks. C'mon people, be a little more creative than that.
Since the Pentium Pro, there has been the ability on Intel chips to address more than 4GB of ram. I believe you can address 36GB on a Pentium Pro... and probably more on Pentium IIs and IIIs. Intel has always done weird segmented memory stuff and as far as the processor is concered, memory addresses are 48-bits... not 32.
How does this "wide standard" prevent film from being scratched? With or without the analog sound track (which is its official name) the film is still going to come in contact with the same parts of the projector. And as long as there are incompetant projectionists (like the ones at my local theatre) there is going to be scratched film.
I am all for digital in theatres. You really have to know what you are doing to put a presentable picture on the screen using the current equipment. Too many times I've sat in a theatre and picked out up to six different problems with the picture. (out of focus, scratched, out of frame, jumpy picture, Cinemascope lens not properly aligned, aperature plate either not cut right, or not in place... this really annoys me because you see the sound track on the screen which is just really bad)
Anyway, I'm hoping that the new digital equipment will make it hard for the "projectionist" to mess up. And the technology will get better and the quality will surpass current projection equipment... everyone should know that.
Yeah, only allow the client to spider the current domain and record any "outside" links it encounters. When it's finished with the current domain it will send it's outside link list back to the server and the server will assign another domain for the client to spider.
I think everyone is forgetting that IPv6 does more than give us ~2^128 IP addresses. IPv6 also tries to make performance improvements. For example, in IPv4 any router is allow to fragment packets to squeeze them through the hardware's MTU. In IPv6, fragmentation is only allowed at the source of the packet. This means that the MTU for the entire path must be determined ahead of time and packets fragmented accordingly. This will lighten the load on the routers in between the source and destination because fragmentation would have already been done and packets won't need to be broken up/reassembled. There are other improvments as well but the point I'm trying to make is that IPv6 is a result of years of learning experience with the current IP protocol and is much more than simply solving an address space problem.
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This just seems like a half-assed solution to the problem. What they should really do is build some sort of security into their scripting products. Kinda like a Java sandbox. But no... that would restrict their "freedom to innovate"... more like freedom to ruin your hard drive.
Would you mind telling us why we scare you? I can't wait to hear this.
Well, imagine if this stuff was as fast as (or even faster than) memory is now. This stuff could be the "memory" and the "hard drive" and the "CPU cache"... or maybe there wouldn't be a difference anymore. Having a CPU attached to a square inch of that stuff means you have a CPU with memory and nonvolitle storage that equals 40GB... that would pave the way for more lower cost PCs.
Besides... saying that this technology wouldn't be useful and no one would care is just like saying that no one will ever need more that 640k RAM.
I am completely fed up with both the Federal government and my State government (which is Maryland, btw...) Everytime the government imposes a new tax on us, our freedom gets squeezed just a little bit more. An internet tax is a tax on interstate commerce... which I thought was something the federal government couldn't do... but then again, income tax used to be unconstitutional. How much longer are the American people going to just sit there and let these idiots take our money by illegal means (hey sounds like stealing doesn't it). Now, don't get me wrong. I know that there are a lot of things that we need tax money to pay for (Military, Education, highways, etc...) but there are a hell of a lot of things that we don't need to pay for. The first one is a huge organization called the IRS. This organization is around only to make sure every taxpayer follows a totally ridiculous tax code that is larger than an encyclopedia. Seems to me that simplifying the tax code could eliminate the need for such a huge bureaucracy. Government waste is another issue. I've heard that almost half of all money set aside for welfare goes to the bureaucracy that runs it rather than paying out benefits. So why was turning this over to the states to handle a bad thing? Maybe 50 state governments can handle it better than one huge bloated government with way too much money and power. I don't mind paying taxes... but I do mind having over a third of my paycheck taken from me and used to support government waste. I am a registered Republican... but I believe that in most cases, the people in office need to be kicked out. There needs to be term limits for Congressmen and Senators so that no lawmaker is in office long enough to be bullied by the status quo. Our government is corrupt... needs to be refreshed. Holding a public office is supposed to be serving your country... not a career. Sorry for rambling. I'm just tired of the government looking for new ways to tax us. We are already overtaxed. And I don't want to hear any of our European friends give me shit about making that statement. Just saying that we pay less than you, doesn't mean that both of us are not getting screwed by our governments.
I love how they admit that they ignored memory efficency and performance until the 3.5 release... even though they claim NT is faster than anything else on the market. What a crock.
Isn't Excel a Lotus 1-2-3 rip off? They haven't "invented" anything. Everything they do is based off some other piece of software written years ago by somebody else. The only difference is a pretty interface and shitty code underneath.
My fellow americans are a bunch of stupid sheep... why do you think Bill Clinton is president?
Ooooohhhh... that really hurts man.
See there you go again... making stupid comments that don't say anything. Yeah, I've heard of C++. Ok, so maybe it's not the best OO language in the world... but you are making a comment about a concept "object oriented programming" based on one (arguably crappy) implementation of it.
I think it is totally ridiculous that people are fighting over these two stupid and uncreative domain names in the first place. Frankly, I'm tired of all the e* and i* buzzwords, company names, and trademarks. C'mon people, be a little more creative than that.
Since the Pentium Pro, there has been the ability on Intel chips to address more than 4GB of ram. I believe you can address 36GB on a Pentium Pro... and probably more on Pentium IIs and IIIs. Intel has always done weird segmented memory stuff and as far as the processor is concered, memory addresses are 48-bits... not 32.
It's really a matter of the OS supporting it.
How does this "wide standard" prevent film from being scratched? With or without the analog sound track (which is its official name) the film is still going to come in contact with the same parts of the projector. And as long as there are incompetant projectionists (like the ones at my local theatre) there is going to be scratched film.
I am all for digital in theatres. You really have to know what you are doing to put a presentable picture on the screen using the current equipment. Too many times I've sat in a theatre and picked out up to six different problems with the picture. (out of focus, scratched, out of frame, jumpy picture, Cinemascope lens not properly aligned, aperature plate either not cut right, or not in place... this really annoys me because you see the sound track on the screen which is just really bad)
Anyway, I'm hoping that the new digital equipment will make it hard for the "projectionist" to mess up. And the technology will get better and the quality will surpass current projection equipment... everyone should know that.
Yeah, only allow the client to spider the current domain and record any "outside" links it encounters. When it's finished with the current domain it will send it's outside link list back to the server and the server will assign another domain for the client to spider.
I think everyone is forgetting that IPv6 does more than give us ~2^128 IP addresses. IPv6 also tries to make performance improvements. For example, in IPv4 any router is allow to fragment packets to squeeze them through the hardware's MTU. In IPv6, fragmentation is only allowed at the source of the packet. This means that the MTU for the entire path must be determined ahead of time and packets fragmented accordingly. This will lighten the load on the routers in between the source and destination because fragmentation would have already been done and packets won't need to be broken up/reassembled. There are other improvments as well but the point I'm trying to make is that IPv6 is a result of years of learning experience with the current IP protocol and is much more than simply solving an address space problem.