Well, still various distros on various platforms would benefit if it is compiled from non-GPL obfuscated source, simply because it works out of the box, after you install distro. I guess that non-GPL nature would mean it cannot be part of linux kernel.
Dear nVidia, here is my little idea for getting nVidia Graphics working on Linux: Release drivers in obfuscated C source! I mean, you can write program to merge all.c and.h files to one huge file, rename all vars and functions to _a00001 (002...) and reorder them (functions and vars) in random way with each new release. In that case, user will get less info from driver sources then what you get from disassembled binary code. Still, such driver can be integrated in kernel, all platforms working, kernel can report crash in specific line of driver code (which can be translated to real source code at nVidia). All good stuff. Now, I hope someone at nVidia read this.
Actually, too expensive. When building cluster of stock PCs it should not be more then $500/PC. And you get AMD64, not Transmeta CPUs (double performance). That being said, kudos to Orion for shrinking whole cluster to big-tower case. Drawback is that it's not so easy to replace dead CPUs (yes, I know it *is* possible).
Something that I can fit my music collection on! It is six months of continous mp3 music at 160kbps. I'd say "dunghill" rather then "collection". Anyway nice to see another full-HDD-mp3-copy veterans. Make hay while the sun shines.
Forgret about licence, if it hits mass market this thing will be run by ipod-like interface, where you will choose destination from hiererchical tree or bookmarks. Then you will be guided by central computer. Even 5yo kids will be allowed to use this. The only problem is: engine reliability. If your engine(s) breaks, you can kill people on the ground. With millions of flying cars upthere, it seems impossible to avoid that (at least current airplane makers didn't find way yet to avoid engine faults and they use heavy amount of service before each flight). Living in big city would be like living in 1942 London. I think that even neighbours of this single inventor are not safe at all.
Don't know about Superbowl, but I would be happy to see GPL version of Champions League match. Comments like "This boy with a ball meried whor... ehm.... supermodel, anyway find yourseltf at www... goaaaaal!" rather then "Young midfielder picks it nicely and what a nice shot... goal, excellent!".
Gaming is huge feature that apple needs to offer. Badly. This is easiest way. No DirectX hassle, no HW upgrades, no vendor nagotiations. Mac users will love it too. Why? Many people listen music on PC/Mac having fancy digital home cinema too.
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I think Apple will add integrated PS3 as (optional?) add-on in Mac computers for $200. It will use computer's blue-ray and display only, otherwise it will be independant from the rest of Mac. MS's only remaining stronghold (games) will be lost, which opens door for Apple to real volume desktop market. Sony will OTOH fill the planet with PS3 games (which is what metters to them). I expect thay will make a deal to have iPod support in stand-alone PS3.
United States government's abrasive approach to North Korea Sorry for Off Topic, but as opose to what most people here thinks, I am sure that *too weak* politics towards NK will lead to nuke-disaster in either South Korea, Japan or even USA west-coast. As opose to Saddam, Kim Chong Il is *real* asshole (tm) that is able to push red button anytime he don't get his pills. Sooner we act, less catastrophy. May I remind you that Tepodong-3 nuclear missiles will probably be able to reach USA, while ver.2 is tested to reach all of Japan. Unfortunatelly for South Korea and Japan, Bush is focused on "war on terror", attacing random countries, while *real* asshole (tm) is silently getting his agenda done. As he learned from Milosevic, when it gets politically too hot it is enough to say "OK, we are back to talks again!" and you have another 2 years to do whatever you like. Europe is also no help here, becouse it is divided to 25 different opinions.
Googe Search engine? Here in Czech Rep. user base of Google dropped to 10-20% because local engine jyxo.cz wipes floor with google. And they will expand to other (so far central) european countries too.
Well, everything is online AFAIK, so good SW engeneer will tell you that it needs only unique GUID of person to be stored on the card. Everything else ATM can download from the central (distributed) server. Adding new informations/functions only requires update/inovation on ATM side, not changing cads.
I also noticed that many Enterprise servers most of it's CPU power spend parsing XML. I wonder why nobody (Intel, AMD) have hardware aid for this. It would also have huge PR benefits in Enterprise/SMB market. I guess it would be utf8 encoding only, but thats not limiting at all, is it?
Really neat free C/C++ IDE for both Linux and Windows is Ultimate++ http://upp.sourceforge.net/ [SF]. It also includes framework for developing cross platform GUI. On windows it supports mingw and free (well "free") MS C++ Toolkit and native MS debugger. Nice part is that you can have single workbench with projects where you can switch toolchains (mingw/MS).
Interesting thing is that North Korea already tested missiles "Tepodong" to reach hundreds miles beyond Japan. Now they I trying to improve it to reach west coast of USA (big cities like L.A. or San Francisco). "Tepodong 2" is (by some sources) already capable of that. As opose to Iraq, this crazy asshole is *real threat*. Now, think about all stupid "orange alerts" over past few years....
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Well, still various distros on various platforms would benefit if it is compiled from non-GPL obfuscated source, simply because it works out of the box, after you install distro. I guess that non-GPL nature would mean it cannot be part of linux kernel.
Dear nVidia, here is my little idea for getting nVidia Graphics working on Linux: Release drivers in obfuscated C source! I mean, you can write program to merge all .c and .h files to one huge file, rename all vars and functions to _a00001 (002...) and reorder them (functions and vars) in random way with each new release. In that case, user will get less info from driver sources then what you get from disassembled binary code. Still, such driver can be integrated in kernel, all platforms working, kernel can report crash in specific line of driver code (which can be translated to real source code at nVidia). All good stuff. Now, I hope someone at nVidia read this.
you need to add $3000 for Air Conditioning and $5000 for furniture for compueters and switches.
Actually, too expensive. When building cluster of stock PCs it should not be more then $500/PC. And you get AMD64, not Transmeta CPUs (double performance). That being said, kudos to Orion for shrinking whole cluster to big-tower case. Drawback is that it's not so easy to replace dead CPUs (yes, I know it *is* possible).
Exectly the same case as in "People vs. Larry Flint" movie... Except this guy will hardly have money to bring his case to the highest court.
Something that I can fit my music collection on!
It is six months of continous mp3 music at 160kbps. I'd say "dunghill" rather then "collection". Anyway nice to see another full-HDD-mp3-copy veterans. Make hay while the sun shines.
I thought man was talking on malware authoring conference.
Forgret about licence, if it hits mass market this thing will be run by ipod-like interface, where you will choose destination from hiererchical tree or bookmarks. Then you will be guided by central computer. Even 5yo kids will be allowed to use this. The only problem is: engine reliability. If your engine(s) breaks, you can kill people on the ground. With millions of flying cars upthere, it seems impossible to avoid that (at least current airplane makers didn't find way yet to avoid engine faults and they use heavy amount of service before each flight). Living in big city would be like living in 1942 London. I think that even neighbours of this single inventor are not safe at all.
Don't know about Superbowl, but I would be happy to see GPL version of Champions League match. Comments like "This boy with a ball meried whor... ehm.... supermodel, anyway find yourseltf at www... goaaaaal!" rather then "Young midfielder picks it nicely and what a nice shot ... goal, excellent!".
It already exists. Its called FM radio.
Gaming is huge feature that apple needs to offer. Badly. This is easiest way. No DirectX hassle, no HW upgrades, no vendor nagotiations. Mac users will love it too. Why? Many people listen music on PC/Mac having fancy digital home cinema too.
I think Apple will add integrated PS3 as (optional?) add-on in Mac computers for $200. It will use computer's blue-ray and display only, otherwise it will be independant from the rest of Mac. MS's only remaining stronghold (games) will be lost, which opens door for Apple to real volume desktop market. Sony will OTOH fill the planet with PS3 games (which is what metters to them). I expect thay will make a deal to have iPod support in stand-alone PS3.
United States government's abrasive approach to North Korea
Sorry for Off Topic, but as opose to what most people here thinks, I am sure that *too weak* politics towards NK will lead to nuke-disaster in either South Korea, Japan or even USA west-coast. As opose to Saddam, Kim Chong Il is *real* asshole (tm) that is able to push red button anytime he don't get his pills. Sooner we act, less catastrophy. May I remind you that Tepodong-3 nuclear missiles will probably be able to reach USA, while ver.2 is tested to reach all of Japan. Unfortunatelly for South Korea and Japan, Bush is focused on "war on terror", attacing random countries, while *real* asshole (tm) is silently getting his agenda done. As he learned from Milosevic, when it gets politically too hot it is enough to say "OK, we are back to talks again!" and you have another 2 years to do whatever you like. Europe is also no help here, becouse it is divided to 25 different opinions.
Googe Search engine? Here in Czech Rep. user base of Google dropped to 10-20% because local engine jyxo.cz wipes floor with google. And they will expand to other (so far central) european countries too.
...for tonights Chelsea-Barcelona game... My wife will be surprised I guess, first "Arsenal" Champions league TV chair ($700) now this.
First platform independent framework/runtime, implemented for only one OS.
For non-online shops, reading users GUID for later transaction is equal to reading any other information(s) found on the card for later transaction.
Well, everything is online AFAIK, so good SW engeneer will tell you that it needs only unique GUID of person to be stored on the card. Everything else ATM can download from the central (distributed) server. Adding new informations/functions only requires update/inovation on ATM side, not changing cads.
I also noticed that many Enterprise servers most of it's CPU power spend parsing XML. I wonder why nobody (Intel, AMD) have hardware aid for this. It would also have huge PR benefits in Enterprise/SMB market. I guess it would be utf8 encoding only, but thats not limiting at all, is it?
Even more interesting stuff: 10Mbps optical link "Ronja" (for wireless LAN-speed connections) and best of all, GPL licensed.
Really neat free C/C++ IDE for both Linux and Windows is Ultimate++ http://upp.sourceforge.net/ [SF]. It also includes framework for developing cross platform GUI. On windows it supports mingw and free (well "free") MS C++ Toolkit and native MS debugger. Nice part is that you can have single workbench with projects where you can switch toolchains (mingw/MS).
Interesting thing is that North Korea already tested missiles "Tepodong" to reach hundreds miles beyond Japan. Now they I trying to improve it to reach west coast of USA (big cities like L.A. or San Francisco). "Tepodong 2" is (by some sources) already capable of that. As opose to Iraq, this crazy asshole is *real threat*. Now, think about all stupid "orange alerts" over past few years....
McDonalds always had far better food printed on paper then actual.
...wait for collision, it will create those little ice cubes for your favourite drink. And remember: Everything is under control.