Maybe in 20 years we can have auto driving cars that can make it so there is next to 0 car accidents.
Unless those are much requested "flying cars" there is next to 0 chance to create this for legal reasons. Families of walking city crowd killed by such cars would demand trillions from car makers each day. So, car companies will rather leave _you_ responsible. If auto driving cars are flying, thats another story. Without any way to switch to "manual" navigation, accidents could really be eliminated. Users would be allowed only to choose target location from pre-defined set on iPod-like dialer.
I can tell you what MySQL advantege over PostgreSQL and Firebird was *for me*:
1) Easy to install in Windows. PostgreSQL is (AFAIK) goof _now_ but was not then. Firebird was/is OK in this area.
2) "Spatial" type/index, Fulltext index. Postgis is available for PostgreSQL but as plugin, not out-of-the-box, fulltext is (AFAIK) beta and not very unicode-reliable. I prefer both things to be integrated as I distribute DB engine with my SW. Firebird miss spatial type (just as MS SQL, for example (!)) so it is useless for me.
One thing where MySQL suck is mingw (gcc) support on windows. If you need to connect from C/C++ in windows, use MS VS, otherwise you wil suffer.
As long as you stay away from LSB and binary compatibility standards (that killed MS security already) you are OK. Relay on your favourite distro's repositories and don't rush for "latest cool binaries". Never heard of virus being spread from official repository of any major distro.
Or you could just write a top-level exception handler that e-mails the exception traces to you. This is quite bad idea because you must have UI for setting up smtp, port (proxy?) username, password.... In the end, all most users would see when exception occures is "Unable to connect to SMTP sever x".
Finally, proof that Apple is over priced, under powered hardware.
Why does Carmack hate Apple so much?...
BTW, if Apple loved PPC so much, why did they announce the switch to Pentium M ?:)
He said that Apple *is* over priced, under powered hardware, which is true. He didn't say it will stay that way forever.
The real life picture is, however, exactly oposite. On XBox you will have to re-design your game to use 3 threads(!) (not 2, not 4) to get predictable fluid parallel performance. This is *very* difficult to do (debugging nightmare). Game (and other) developers are very much used to single thread. Sony came up with better idea: Cell chip has parallel vector units that will be used by low-level libs (well tested and stable). Libs will be both provided by Sony and later by engine companies themself. Game programmer is simply writing single-threaded app, as he always did, but using these libs as much as possible (even OpenGL libs will use them). Your app is under the hood running 1-8 way parallel, depending on how much you use those libs. Isn't that better idea then 3-thread SMP approach? For me as a developer yes!
Dual Core is advertised a lot but keep in mind that it is always better to have 1 core of performance X then 2 cores of performance X/2. For multi threaded apps both machines are same, performance-wise, but for single threaded tasks (still majority) it is big difference. Interesting approach is that of Cell: low level libraries are made to use parallel SPE units. High level apps (like games) are written in normal, single threaded way, but on the CPU-level runs in highly parallel way.
Maybe they will put this media player togather with Google Office, Google Voice Services and Google Gaming Engine to create ultimate Google Vaporware OS?
"You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken."
Intel Mac as Linux machine will be grat for several reasons:
1. Problems with small PPC user base - compilation problems: gone
2. Problems of Mac OSX (performance, one button mouse): non-existant.
3. Equal HW on all machines -> easier to support.
4. Hopefully Apple will finally meet reality when it comes to HDD and DIMM prices.
I think that Linux comunity in large will migrate from dell/anything, at least I will. If you like KDE desktop then why not buying HW that looks like your desktop?
but the Bible uses many outdated or non-standard phrases and sentence structures, as does most legal text I've ever seen. I'm not a linguist or a statistician, but from my uneducated viewpoint it sounds like problems might arise in the texts that are available for training the system. Anyone know how they're planning to overcome this?
Harry Potter is the answer. It is several "normal language" books and is translated to all major languages. Also, program would finally figure out how to translate words like "Quidditch".
Not really. If regulation bodies in EU recognize that MS is happy with 5M/day, commision will be glad to increase it. Don't forget that majority in EU parliament and commision are leftist parties (socialists, greens). It would be political suicide for them to be fooled by mother of all evil (in their mind): Giant American Corporation.
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Maybe in 20 years we can have auto driving cars that can make it so there is next to 0 car accidents.
Unless those are much requested "flying cars" there is next to 0 chance to create this for legal reasons. Families of walking city crowd killed by such cars would demand trillions from car makers each day. So, car companies will rather leave _you_ responsible. If auto driving cars are flying, thats another story. Without any way to switch to "manual" navigation, accidents could really be eliminated. Users would be allowed only to choose target location from pre-defined set on iPod-like dialer.
That should nip the "MySQL is a replacement for Oracle under all circumstances" posts that always appear whenever MySQL is discussed on slashdot.
In my experience there is lot more of "PostgreSQL 8 is a replacement for MySQL under all circumstances".
he envisioned back in '80s that PC with DOS will be good enough even in 2005.
I am at work, at home I have Ubuntu Linux! True! Don't shoot, please!
I can tell you what MySQL advantege over PostgreSQL and Firebird was *for me*:
1) Easy to install in Windows. PostgreSQL is (AFAIK) goof _now_ but was not then. Firebird was/is OK in this area.
2) "Spatial" type/index, Fulltext index. Postgis is available for PostgreSQL but as plugin, not out-of-the-box, fulltext is (AFAIK) beta and not very unicode-reliable. I prefer both things to be integrated as I distribute DB engine with my SW. Firebird miss spatial type (just as MS SQL, for example (!)) so it is useless for me.
One thing where MySQL suck is mingw (gcc) support on windows. If you need to connect from C/C++ in windows, use MS VS, otherwise you wil suffer.
As long as you stay away from LSB and binary compatibility standards (that killed MS security already) you are OK. Relay on your favourite distro's repositories and don't rush for "latest cool binaries". Never heard of virus being spread from official repository of any major distro.
What are numbers of Developers/Hackers browsing and reporting bugs for Firefox vs. IE? Until we know _that_ this report means nothing.
1. Create portable swiper 2. Visit major football event 3. Profit!
Or you could just write a top-level exception handler that e-mails the exception traces to you.
This is quite bad idea because you must have UI for setting up smtp, port (proxy?) username, password.... In the end, all most users would see when exception occures is "Unable to connect to SMTP sever x".
Finally, proof that Apple is over priced, under powered hardware. Why does Carmack hate Apple so much? ...
BTW, if Apple loved PPC so much, why did they announce the switch to Pentium M ? :)
He said that Apple *is* over priced, under powered hardware, which is true. He didn't say it will stay that way forever.
How does this "n" letter compares to WiMAX?
There's really nothing innovative today that Linux does that we can't do.
One word: fork()
Do you know
little girl
what is program "bash"
I said I don't
have a clue
but "correct" started flash.
Do you know
who to blame
when malware's all around
I said proudly:
"Sister Jane"
clapping all around
Do you care
if documents
are closed and you are locked
I gone "what?
someone care?
I am really shocked!"
So he put me
to his limo
gave me "MCP"
What a f**
this garbage is?
Give me my Barbie!
The real life picture is, however, exactly oposite. On XBox you will have to re-design your game to use 3 threads(!) (not 2, not 4) to get predictable fluid parallel performance. This is *very* difficult to do (debugging nightmare). Game (and other) developers are very much used to single thread. Sony came up with better idea: Cell chip has parallel vector units that will be used by low-level libs (well tested and stable). Libs will be both provided by Sony and later by engine companies themself. Game programmer is simply writing single-threaded app, as he always did, but using these libs as much as possible (even OpenGL libs will use them). Your app is under the hood running 1-8 way parallel, depending on how much you use those libs. Isn't that better idea then 3-thread SMP approach? For me as a developer yes!
"I am little moron robot doing whatever my boss says, if its legal" attitude is what made holocaust possible. Or Srebrenica, more reciently.
... Popup blocking functionality was stripped from Longhorn, Microsoft announced today.
This kind of amazing stuff you can expect to see on Cell CPU. And you will not have to hack GPU, it is supported by Linux kernel.
Dual Core is advertised a lot but keep in mind that it is always better to have 1 core of performance X then 2 cores of performance X/2. For multi threaded apps both machines are same, performance-wise, but for single threaded tasks (still majority) it is big difference. Interesting approach is that of Cell: low level libraries are made to use parallel SPE units. High level apps (like games) are written in normal, single threaded way, but on the CPU-level runs in highly parallel way.
Maybe they will put this media player togather with Google Office, Google Voice Services and Google Gaming Engine to create ultimate Google Vaporware OS?
"You have a problem with authority, Mr. Anderson. You believe you are special, that somehow the rules do not apply to you. Obviously, you are mistaken."
will it finally solve missing socks phenomenon?
Intel Mac as Linux machine will be grat for several reasons:
1. Problems with small PPC user base - compilation problems: gone
2. Problems of Mac OSX (performance, one button mouse): non-existant.
3. Equal HW on all machines -> easier to support.
4. Hopefully Apple will finally meet reality when it comes to HDD and DIMM prices.
I think that Linux comunity in large will migrate from dell/anything, at least I will. If you like KDE desktop then why not buying HW that looks like your desktop?
but the Bible uses many outdated or non-standard phrases and sentence structures, as does most legal text I've ever seen. I'm not a linguist or a statistician, but from my uneducated viewpoint it sounds like problems might arise in the texts that are available for training the system. Anyone know how they're planning to overcome this?
Harry Potter is the answer. It is several "normal language" books and is translated to all major languages. Also, program would finally figure out how to translate words like "Quidditch".
Unless they invented semi-transparent-building-photo technology, I don't see how they will show any city downtown?
Not really. If regulation bodies in EU recognize that MS is happy with 5M/day, commision will be glad to increase it. Don't forget that majority in EU parliament and commision are leftist parties (socialists, greens). It would be political suicide for them to be fooled by mother of all evil (in their mind): Giant American Corporation.