I'm interested becasuse ARM's business model usually involves licensing their chip designs. ARM cpus are widespread in cell phones etc. They have their own market and application area away from Wintel, PowerPC etc.
Also, anything that might boost my pitiful ARM shares value is most welcome! Why?... Why did I believe the hype?
This is meant to be a primer, and it just about "primes" the debate on Grid Computing.
The grid discussed here seems only to be built on the OGSA and Globus Toolkit, and Globus has not really covered itself in glory with their poor UIs etc.
Grid seems to address occasional demand for "much more power" from your computing resource, but does not really provide a consistent flexible computing resource.
The academic world uses External Grids to pool resources but private Enterprise has little to gain from these External Grids in exchange for a HUGE security problem.
And Internal Grids? These are so immature as to beggar belief. Why risk investing in these configurations when bang per buck is so uninviting.
Looking at the final report's Executive Summary and Background sections, I noted that although the UK Government were sniffy about desktop and business systems, they said:
"no significant obstacles were noted for the adoption of Open Source in infrastructure developments"
Looks like a significant crack in the eGov door for Linux.
The Times Online (Weds) has a report from the Loughborough Sleep Research Centre on more inventive ways of staying awake at the wheel - including one woman who resorted to trapping her long hair in the sunroof to prevent her nodding off!
While it may not be good practice at programming, it is good programming practice.
It's the most agile form of code re-use.
You'll get marked down in Programming class but you should get EXTRA marks in Software Engineering. You could get a job at Micro$oft; on the downside you will get an 'F' in Software Patents.
The phrase should be "after doing software development". Practitioners such as Coplien are helping to form the rather primitive industry we call Information technology.
Twenty odd years of doing the right and wrong things, often repeating those wrong things, leads me to respect any kind of insight that can be brought to bear. I reckon that another twenty years should take us to where the automobile industry was in the 50s.
Mal-organisation is a big headache in our IT group. There is no magic-bullet but learning from our past and eschewing prejudices and gut-feeling management is a good start.
I was particularly struck by the story of the Unix Room where all the Unix people hung out.
These days, developers seem to have their accommodation organised by blind chance, or worse, corporate whim.
Many of my colleagues left their 6-12 man offices to join a 70 desk open-plan floor. The six of us architects (yeah, right) were pretty miffed to be shunted into a 1980's room just for six with beige vinyl on the walls and phones straight out of Flash Gordon. Now, two months later, we appreciate the working community that is our office.
Good call Mr. Pike: humans function well in small self-organising or randomly-organised groups of up to 8. I'll rue the day we have to move out.
I think it's appropriate that the BBC are currently broadcasting more, unheard, Hitchhikers Guide. Visit the BBC's H2G2 site where you can hear the latest episode in 5.1 and find out more.
It's recorded with mostly the original cast, and how beautiful the irony that Douglas Adams, for it is he, is voicing the part of Agrajag. Not bad for a dead man. I do hear the tax breaks are good though.
The article says that the CO2 produced in such a scheme would be approx 5 times the amount used by the oil industry to teriary extract oil. Err, that leaves 4x CO2 unhandled anyway./JE
While the lawyers get rich and the large corps spend their small change in the patents courts it's the small innovator who continues to suffer.
Just how long do patents last on software, 75 years(ish)? It strikes me that innovation should be rewarded by a short patent of say 7 years then the IT community benefit straight after.
The Labour Party is indeed led by those people in the Labour cabinet. However, in a two/three party representative democracy, an effective Opposition party can apply checks and balances to ensure that the power of "Government" is not used to further the ends of the ruling party, and......oh......I see what you mean.;)
Also, the cabinet do not see eye to eye with the rank and file of the Labour Party, so they can't be the same thing.
LOL REBloomfield!
In any case, I still contend that it was the Party who put up those sites and not HM Government.
Erm no. (rises to trollbait) The Labour Party is NOT the UK Government. However, this government has been taken to task for possibly paying for certain political activities, e.g. should the UK Government pay for pro-European campaigning in any referendum on Europe? (This has not yet happened). Also, the government is accused of employing many Labour Party people to "advise" on civil service initiatives.
It's fine for a political party to spend its money in this way but not that of taxpayers.
Don't try to guess my political sympathies - you will probably be wrong.
So, expecting to fill such a disk on a home system, it would be a reasonable user requirement to expect to take a maximum of 30 minutes to fill the single-side, single-layer disk. That is 250GB in 30 minutes, or 138MB per second.
That should keep your average desktop busy in 2010! And picture doing this over a LAN or WAN.
My interest in submitting the story was the sheer number of geek-hours I've had to spend fixing Ordinary Joe's PC.
Someone told Joe how good Morpheous was. He installed it. I helped fix it. I put on 40 gray hairs.
Now, Adware like CoolWebSearch (retch! retch!) has become so resistant to removal that I have spent hours disinfecting machines.
Now "as any fule kno" Windows is not the most secure OS, and you really shouldn't install these adware-carriers. However it is as true as ever that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak./JE Trust me - no spyware included in this comment.
I submitted this story with glee. While Adware, Spyware and BHOs do seem to break the terms of the (UK) Computer Misuse Act I don't see anyone being prosecuted. Would you care to join me in a test case http://slashdot.org/~salvorHardin? I'm sooo up for this.
It was no idle talk. I have given so much of my precious free time to bail friends (and, yes, myself) out of the Adware trap.
I want an easy life. I hate popups. I want someone to do something about them. Also, I'm not about to waste my screen time in a battle to beat the popup exploiter scum. And 3 months after the XP2 patch? I expect the popup writers already have their software out in beta too.
Looks like Joe User is another market ripe for the Virus Promoters (sorry, AntiVirus companies). Sigh! Incidentally, don't you get sick of the "partner offers" and popups on some AV websites?
In the meantime, I make it my business to see a popup ad as a disincentive to deal with that company. Hell! Give me six more months of this and I'll be so grumpy I won't ever buy anything ever again.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, anything that might boost my pitiful ARM shares value is most welcome! Why?... Why did I believe the hype?
The grid discussed here seems only to be built on the OGSA and Globus Toolkit, and Globus has not really covered itself in glory with their poor UIs etc.
Grid seems to address occasional demand for "much more power" from your computing resource, but does not really provide a consistent flexible computing resource.
The academic world uses External Grids to pool resources but private Enterprise has little to gain from these External Grids in exchange for a HUGE security problem.
And Internal Grids? These are so immature as to beggar belief. Why risk investing in these configurations when bang per buck is so uninviting.
Actually, I did NOT copy you zenmo. That would be shameless and regarded as "poor form". It was good ol' lag during posting.
Of course:
Best thoughts,
/joelethan
"Many hands make light work!"
The Cornell Nanophotonics Team
The article just uses the world's most illegible font. It got me for a minute. Try "View Source"
I'd quote the source but the Pi renders on /. as "ð".
And you thought it was just a Vitamin K shot.
TimesOnline Article
-- When I heard I was fired on the car phone, I CAREERED off the road!
"Eh Marsha, your mother just had our VoIP number slashdotted. We just have to go ex-directory!"
It's the most agile form of code re-use.
You'll get marked down in Programming class but you should get EXTRA marks in Software Engineering. You could get a job at Micro$oft; on the downside you will get an 'F' in Software Patents.
Nothing to C here, move on.
Twenty odd years of doing the right and wrong things, often repeating those wrong things, leads me to respect any kind of insight that can be brought to bear. I reckon that another twenty years should take us to where the automobile industry was in the 50s.
Mal-organisation is a big headache in our IT group. There is no magic-bullet but learning from our past and eschewing prejudices and gut-feeling management is a good start.
I'm with Coplien on this one.
/JE
These days, developers seem to have their accommodation organised by blind chance, or worse, corporate whim.
Many of my colleagues left their 6-12 man offices to join a 70 desk open-plan floor. The six of us architects (yeah, right) were pretty miffed to be shunted into a 1980's room just for six with beige vinyl on the walls and phones straight out of Flash Gordon. Now, two months later, we appreciate the working community that is our office.
Good call Mr. Pike: humans function well in small self-organising or randomly-organised groups of up to 8. I'll rue the day we have to move out.
It's recorded with mostly the original cast, and how beautiful the irony that Douglas Adams, for it is he, is voicing the part of Agrajag. Not bad for a dead man. I do hear the tax breaks are good though.
The article says that the CO2 produced in such a scheme would be approx 5 times the amount used by the oil industry to teriary extract oil. Err, that leaves 4x CO2 unhandled anyway. /JE
Just how long do patents last on software, 75 years(ish)? It strikes me that innovation should be rewarded by a short patent of say 7 years then the IT community benefit straight after.
Also, the cabinet do not see eye to eye with the rank and file of the Labour Party, so they can't be the same thing.
LOL REBloomfield! In any case, I still contend that it was the Party who put up those sites and not HM Government.
It's fine for a political party to spend its money in this way but not that of taxpayers.
Don't try to guess my political sympathies - you will probably be wrong.
Thank you, I'm here all week.
How open is this open source?
Could someone post a precis of the Ts and Cs?
That should keep your average desktop busy in 2010! And picture doing this over a LAN or WAN.
My interest in submitting the story was the sheer number of geek-hours I've had to spend fixing Ordinary Joe's PC.
/JE
Someone told Joe how good Morpheous was. He installed it. I helped fix it. I put on 40 gray hairs.
Now, Adware like CoolWebSearch (retch! retch!) has become so resistant to removal that I have spent hours disinfecting machines.
Now "as any fule kno" Windows is not the most secure OS, and you really shouldn't install these adware-carriers. However it is as true as ever that the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak.
Trust me - no spyware included in this comment.
It was no idle talk. I have given so much of my precious free time to bail friends (and, yes, myself) out of the Adware trap.
Oh yes, I'm feeling mighty litigious! /JE
Music? Actually, you can take it with you. You just won't have any Digital Rights.
Looks like Joe User is another market ripe for the Virus Promoters (sorry, AntiVirus companies). Sigh! Incidentally, don't you get sick of the "partner offers" and popups on some AV websites?
In the meantime, I make it my business to see a popup ad as a disincentive to deal with that company. Hell! Give me six more months of this and I'll be so grumpy I won't ever buy anything ever again.
/JE