"Your information is only stored for one hour, so each time you return, we'll run fresh analytics on your Facebook data." (according to this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/). Considering all the ways your data can "get out" this does not seem that bad...
It's not the same code. It is the same code with different options and in many configurations. This exposese bugs in the respective packages, which are reported upstream and improve the software that is compiled into binary package.
Also it would be nice to have numbers, but it might be possible that windows 3D screensavers take more power that all the gentoo compilation:p.
This maybe true for the desktop market, but for embedded the special compiler IS needed, and also not everyone can write a program that will run ok on a mobile phone. The programmers must take into account the architecture specifities so that the code executes acceptably in the constrained environment.
And the general trend is to take into account more and more variables (like power consumpption and different execution units that can perform different tasks).
The future of Cell depends on IBM on the developers and on the users. By itself needing a complex compiler is not a reason to fail.
Although I know this is not exactly a good comparision as the jdk has somekind of restrictive distribution policy, you can say that because Oo dosesn't come bundled with X you must find it and install it. And so on.
Java is on many windows system, and for those with broadband it's just 1,2 clicks away. Is that hard to click a link and install from there ?
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This is the former ohloh.net, can be very useful also to understand how active a project is and how did it evolve.
We're also a Linux firm, and the latest Firefox you can run on our Linux (RedHat AS 5, moving to 6) is Firefox 17.
You make it sound like it is very old. Firefox 17 first release was around one year ago and is quite modern browser when compared with IE 9.
Real people write directly hardware description languages. Why write binary when you can design your own custom hardware?
"Your information is only stored for one hour, so each time you return, we'll run fresh analytics on your Facebook data." (according to this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/facebook/). Considering all the ways your data can "get out" this does not seem that bad...
For sure you will not hear of alternative app markets either, will you ?
It's not the same code. It is the same code with different options and in many configurations. This exposese bugs in the respective packages, which are reported upstream and improve the software that is compiled into binary package. Also it would be nice to have numbers, but it might be possible that windows 3D screensavers take more power that all the gentoo compilation :p.
This maybe true for the desktop market, but for embedded the special compiler IS needed, and also not everyone can write a program that will run ok on a mobile phone. The programmers must take into account the architecture specifities so that the code executes acceptably in the constrained environment.
And the general trend is to take into account more and more variables (like power consumpption and different execution units that can perform different tasks).
The future of Cell depends on IBM on the developers and on the users. By itself needing a complex compiler is not a reason to fail.
Although I know this is not exactly a good comparision as the jdk has somekind of restrictive distribution policy, you can say that because Oo dosesn't come bundled with X you must find it and install it. And so on. Java is on many windows system, and for those with broadband it's just 1,2 clicks away. Is that hard to click a link and install from there ?