It brings to mind the thought that if we don't build robots to replace outselves, then we may end up turning ourselves into organic machines of another type. If everyone is genetically engineered, controlled down to the last chromosome, then what's the difference between that person and a machine? A soul? Does a perfectly engineered being still have a soul? What about clones, would a clone have a soul?
This is the way that web design should be headed. Not only can you have it support multiple browsers (lynx vs netscape or palm) but multiple protocols ( you could have a gopher version ) and it's much easier to change the style of your website this way as well if all your content is seperated from the display. Not nearly as fast as static content, but who is going to pay you for static content? Besides, if you have a static content website, then you can pregenerate all your pages right?
Yeah, why did they get rid of my favorite tag, the BLINK tag! They also never made this work... <BLINK> <IMG SRC="myImage.gif"> </BLINK> Yahoo would be so much better if they only used the blink tag to get your attention.
Personally, I've never had problems with RedHat installs (YMMV), the only time I ever have problems with *nix system is when I don't know where the files are that allow you to configure the system. Since every distribution of linux, BSD and Solaris all seem to be a little different in their config.
Not only that, but the implication that RDRAM is expensive is wrong as well. RDRAM is almost the same price ( within 5-10 bucks ) of the same size DDR ram. At least on pricewatch it is.
Was mr lee the only one who submitted this story? Or was his the one with the most profanity in the story? I expect to see profane comments, not stories./. allows passive agressive statements twords companies that are opposed to linux, but can you please keep the swearing out of the stories?
Why not use the money from the tax to instead build a server farm where people can then request space on for non-profit needs. Then you can host these 'non-profit' sites there. Instead of giving money to the artist to pay their fees, you just host it for them. This way it also makes it easier to determine which sites are popular and more deserving of support.
yeah, but I think that it would be faster if instead of highlighting words on the screen , it actually made it part of the language. Like instead of using brackets to represent a scope block, it would instead be a green rectangle. and anything in the rectangle would be in scope.
Is that they really don't improve programmer efficiency over the languages made yesterday. Java is not much better then C, C# and Java are very much the same. VB, well VB doesn't make it easier to program. All these languages suffer from the same problems. It's still very easy too. Write unmaintainable code. Write APIs that make no sence. Write insecure code. Write code that nobody else can use.
And too hard to write code that is.. backwards compatable self-documenting easy to read self organizing
Without good programmers it doesn't matter which language you are using, as all of them suffer from the same faults. Where are the totaly visual languages, LabView anyone? Not as good as it could be, but it's a start. Why are all new languages text-based? None use color (does color fourth count?). Python uses whitespace as a way to imply function (a good thing). With 17" COLOR monitors being the minimum that a new or year old computer has as it's display you would think that us developers could devise a language that allows us to express to ourselves as well as it expresses to the computer.
Well, Xerox machines won't copy money anymore. All Xerox machines have technology that recoginzes money and stops it from being reproduced correctly. I think their 1st gen color machines did, but not anymore.
If you read the title of his post, Napster and IRC are very, very similar.
IRC -> talk to people and get them to transfer a file to you. the file is transfered directly to you aka p2p style. However, would you say that IRC is p2p? No it's client-server.
Napster -> type in search box that sends a search request to a CENTRAL SERVER. Central server finds all matches to your file and tells you who has the file. You download a file by contacting the host directly and d/l the file (except when the file was behind a firewall, I think that napster would d/l it for you through the fw). This method is exactly like IRC with a built in search engine.
I see a day in the future where CPU power will be plentiful enough so that you will be able to send a message to your upstream router to tell it to stop sendinf you packets from specific addresses, that way if you detect a DoS attack then you can at the very least stop specific targets. And the packets will get dropped b4 they are even sent to you.
Personally I've had many problems with AMD procs. All athlons, and mostly the MOBO. The chipsets keep on dieing on me. Maybe I should stop buying via chipsets, but they don't work too well. They are fast, but that's it. I've only had one proc die on me, and I think that it was shipped to me dead. Sometimes I wish that I had paid more for a system that was less likley to break.
So you're saying that a GF2MX won't run WC3 well? Oh well, guess I'll have to wait for the PS2/GC/XBOX version. Actually come to think of it, I would rather have the XBOX version if the XBOX ever lets me use the internet. That would be sweet, optimized, no crashes!
But no company is going to make money by giving away their product for free. Product being what they do, not their code.
On another note, most people @ slashdot probably don't care about this anyway as it will only be really useful in the realm of portable devices. I mean who wants to rip their cd collection to hd and have it sound less then perfect? The only reason that I keep versions of my music around at a bitrate lower then 192kbps is for my Nomad II.
Why do you need 2 procs to do parallel programming? That's what threads and preemptive multitasking are for. I know it's not 'true' multithreaded. Since only one thread is being executed at once, but it fairly close.
BTW, try programming a compiler that can take your code and make it run in parallel (procs/threads/whatever) it's really hard to do. All programs share data, the level of which determines their parallelness.
Try out the fourth engine that was mentioned awhile ago, it supposed to be blisteringly fast, but requires you to write a bunch of parallel programs for it to work.
a hundred? more like tens of thousands. For a variety of reasons ( checking caches, signal propagation for electricity is less then light , signaling time ) Already processors can wait hundreds of clocks for memory access.
One thing that they don't mention is how many transistors they have been able to put on a chip. I mean so what if you can run @ 110ghz if you can only put a hundred transistors on a chip.
is in their ability to save power. From what IBM is saying, is that their chips can be run at say only 20 - 40 ghz and consume a hundred times less power then a chip built with todays processes. So you'll be able to get the same or more processing power out of these chips for less enegry. At 110 ghz, a PHOTON only moves 2.7mm so figure that the actual signal propagation is like 2/3 the speed of that and you see that the signal can only travel 1.8mm in a clock. So, these chips are not going to be all that great for CPUs at 110 Ghz. Much better for signal processing likein routers or something.
Reading the other comments, I would suspect that most people just don't understand that Exmet Paff Daxx is just another grief player. Just another guy that gets kicks ruining your good time. Maybe mother dropped him/her/it on the ground one too many times as a baby. We'll never know, but it's a simple fact that a small (but very annonying) group of players always will be grief players. You don't get these guys in board games, cause people just wont play with them. However, the anonominity and scale of the internet has allowed these people to fully express their hatred for other people's good time. Quake, EQ, UO, UT, SC, whatever game you like, they will be there to stop you from having fun. Fortunatly most game developers have programmed their games in such a way as to hinder/stop most grief players. UO had lots of problems with players killing and maming players, but they worked through the problems and now the grief players don't have the impact on the game they once had. You can't get rid of them, but you can minimize their impact. That's why you can start a private server.
You're forgetting one very large and important area of computer design work. Computer Systems Engineering. Not exactly software, not exactly electrical, somewhere inbetween. You know, the guys that design the motherboards, and the firmware to go with it. Not the guys that design the power supplys, sometimes the chips. But the guys that connect all the pieces together.
Actually, I don't think that there should be a software engineering degree. I think that CS should include more courses on working in teams and designing code that is easy for other people to work with. Nobody programs in a box these days. Everyone must work with code that someone else wrote the API for. (which is another thing, every student should have to take a class on API design) 50 years ago when all machines were huge and the program you wrote didn't use any shared libraries this didn't matter. But today, it is almost impossiable to write all the code your program executes yourself. ( I mean not useing any libs, no STL, just your ASM/C/C++ code) . The major exception being embedded dev. At least my embedded dev classes, they made up write all the code ourselves, YMMV.
I mean how are criminals supposed to get away when we can track their every move. Next they will be installing a device in your car that makes it stop automatically. (which does exist, they just don't have the clout to install it yet)
Do you even know what kind of VM IBM is talking about when they talk about their zSeries? I'll use tech that you are probably familar with. It's exactly like VMWARE for windows/linux. Except that the zSeries OS that runs the virtual machines runs at a much lower level then the VMWARE program and the HW is optimized for the execution of VMs. Unlike the x86 on x86 emulator that VMWARE does, the zSeries boxes run their VM's very fast. All the code that is executed runs native to the processors in the box, you have to recompile everything to run on them. see this url for more facts on IBM's stuff. I'm not saying it's the answer, but this paper from SUN is FUD. http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries /os/li nux/facts.html
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It brings to mind the thought that if we don't build robots to replace outselves, then we may end up turning ourselves into organic machines of another type. If everyone is genetically engineered, controlled down to the last chromosome, then what's the difference between that person and a machine? A soul?
Does a perfectly engineered being still have a soul?
What about clones, would a clone have a soul?
This is the way that web design should be headed. Not only can you have it support multiple browsers (lynx vs netscape or palm) but multiple protocols ( you could have a gopher version ) and it's much easier to change the style of your website this way as well if all your content is seperated from the display.
Not nearly as fast as static content, but who is going to pay you for static content? Besides, if you have a static content website, then you can pregenerate all your pages right?
Yeah, why did they get rid of my favorite tag, the BLINK tag!
They also never made this work...
<BLINK> <IMG SRC="myImage.gif"> </BLINK>
Yahoo would be so much better if they only used the blink tag to get your attention.
Personally, I've never had problems with RedHat installs (YMMV), the only time I ever have problems with *nix system is when I don't know where the files are that allow you to configure the system. Since every distribution of linux, BSD and Solaris all seem to be a little different in their config.
Not only that, but the implication that RDRAM is expensive is wrong as well. RDRAM is almost the same price ( within 5-10 bucks ) of the same size DDR ram. At least on pricewatch it is.
Was mr lee the only one who submitted this story? Or was his the one with the most profanity in the story? I expect to see profane comments, not stories. /. allows passive agressive statements twords companies that are opposed to linux, but can you please keep the swearing out of the stories?
Everytime you buy a MS product you are helping to pay for the MSN web site. That's how they are affording that huge money hole.
Why not use the money from the tax to instead build a server farm where people can then request space on for non-profit needs. Then you can host these 'non-profit' sites there. Instead of giving money to the artist to pay their fees, you just host it for them. This way it also makes it easier to determine which sites are popular and more deserving of support.
yeah, but I think that it would be faster if instead of highlighting words on the screen , it actually made it part of the language.
Like instead of using brackets to represent a scope block, it would instead be a green rectangle. and anything in the rectangle would be in scope.
Is that they really don't improve programmer efficiency over the languages made yesterday.
Java is not much better then C, C# and Java are very much the same. VB, well VB doesn't make it easier to program. All these languages suffer from the same problems.
It's still very easy too.
Write unmaintainable code.
Write APIs that make no sence.
Write insecure code.
Write code that nobody else can use.
And too hard to write code that is..
backwards compatable
self-documenting
easy to read
self organizing
Without good programmers it doesn't matter which language you are using, as all of them suffer from the same faults. Where are the totaly visual languages, LabView anyone? Not as good as it could be, but it's a start.
Why are all new languages text-based? None use color (does color fourth count?). Python uses whitespace as a way to imply function (a good thing). With 17" COLOR monitors being the minimum that a new or year old computer has as it's display you would think that us developers could devise a language that allows us to express to ourselves as well as it expresses to the computer.
Well, Xerox machines won't copy money anymore. All Xerox machines have technology that recoginzes money and stops it from being reproduced correctly. I think their 1st gen color machines did, but not anymore.
If you read the title of his post, Napster and IRC are very, very similar.
IRC -> talk to people and get them to transfer a file to you. the file is transfered directly to you aka p2p style. However, would you say that IRC is p2p? No it's client-server.
Napster -> type in search box that sends a search request to a CENTRAL SERVER. Central server finds all matches to your file and tells you who has the file. You download a file by contacting the host directly and d/l the file (except when the file was behind a firewall, I think that napster would d/l it for you through the fw). This method is exactly like IRC with a built in search engine.
I see a day in the future where CPU power will be plentiful enough so that you will be able to send a message to your upstream router to tell it to stop sendinf you packets from specific addresses, that way if you detect a DoS attack then you can at the very least stop specific targets. And the packets will get dropped b4 they are even sent to you.
Personally I've had many problems with AMD procs. All athlons, and mostly the MOBO. The chipsets keep on dieing on me. Maybe I should stop buying via chipsets, but they don't work too well. They are fast, but that's it. I've only had one proc die on me, and I think that it was shipped to me dead. Sometimes I wish that I had paid more for a system that was less likley to break.
So you're saying that a GF2MX won't run WC3 well? Oh well, guess I'll have to wait for the PS2/GC/XBOX version. Actually come to think of it, I would rather have the XBOX version if the XBOX ever lets me use the internet. That would be sweet, optimized, no crashes!
But no company is going to make money by giving away their product for free. Product being what they do, not their code.
On another note, most people @ slashdot probably don't care about this anyway as it will only be really useful in the realm of portable devices. I mean who wants to rip their cd collection to hd and have it sound less then perfect? The only reason that I keep versions of my music around at a bitrate lower then 192kbps is for my Nomad II.
Why do you need 2 procs to do parallel programming? That's what threads and preemptive multitasking are for. I know it's not 'true' multithreaded. Since only one thread is being executed at once, but it fairly close.
BTW, try programming a compiler that can take your code and make it run in parallel (procs/threads/whatever) it's really hard to do. All programs share data, the level of which determines their parallelness.
Try out the fourth engine that was mentioned awhile ago, it supposed to be blisteringly fast, but requires you to write a bunch of parallel programs for it to work.
a hundred? more like tens of thousands. For a variety of reasons ( checking caches, signal propagation for electricity is less then light , signaling time ) Already processors can wait hundreds of clocks for memory access.
One thing that they don't mention is how many transistors they have been able to put on a chip. I mean so what if you can run @ 110ghz if you can only put a hundred transistors on a chip.
is in their ability to save power. From what IBM is saying, is that their chips can be run at say only 20 - 40 ghz and consume a hundred times less power then a chip built with todays processes. So you'll be able to get the same or more processing power out of these chips for less enegry.
At 110 ghz, a PHOTON only moves 2.7mm so figure that the actual signal propagation is like 2/3 the speed of that and you see that the signal can only travel 1.8mm in a clock. So, these chips are not going to be all that great for CPUs at 110 Ghz. Much better for signal processing likein routers or something.
Reading the other comments, I would suspect that most people just don't understand that Exmet Paff Daxx is just another grief player. Just another guy that gets kicks ruining your good time. Maybe mother dropped him/her/it on the ground one too many times as a baby. We'll never know, but it's a simple fact that a small (but very annonying) group of players always will be grief players. You don't get these guys in board games, cause people just wont play with them. However, the anonominity and scale of the internet has allowed these people to fully express their hatred for other people's good time. Quake, EQ, UO, UT, SC, whatever game you like, they will be there to stop you from having fun.
Fortunatly most game developers have programmed their games in such a way as to hinder/stop most grief players. UO had lots of problems with players killing and maming players, but they worked through the problems and now the grief players don't have the impact on the game they once had. You can't get rid of them, but you can minimize their impact. That's why you can start a private server.
You're forgetting one very large and important area of computer design work. Computer Systems Engineering. Not exactly software, not exactly electrical, somewhere inbetween. You know, the guys that design the motherboards, and the firmware to go with it. Not the guys that design the power supplys, sometimes the chips. But the guys that connect all the pieces together.
Actually, I don't think that there should be a software engineering degree. I think that CS should include more courses on working in teams and designing code that is easy for other people to work with. Nobody programs in a box these days. Everyone must work with code that someone else wrote the API for. (which is another thing, every student should have to take a class on API design) 50 years ago when all machines were huge and the program you wrote didn't use any shared libraries this didn't matter. But today, it is almost impossiable to write all the code your program executes yourself. ( I mean not useing any libs, no STL, just your ASM/C/C++ code) . The major exception being embedded dev. At least my embedded dev classes, they made up write all the code ourselves, YMMV.
I mean how are criminals supposed to get away when we can track their every move. Next they will be installing a device in your car that makes it stop automatically. (which does exist, they just don't have the clout to install it yet)
I guess security is lax when they put all the codes in the page you download.
JS security does not work.
Do you even know what kind of VM IBM is talking about when they talk about their zSeries?s /os/li nux/facts.html
I'll use tech that you are probably familar with. It's exactly like VMWARE for windows/linux. Except that the zSeries OS that runs the virtual machines runs at a much lower level then the VMWARE program and the HW is optimized for the execution of VMs. Unlike the x86 on x86 emulator that VMWARE does, the zSeries boxes run their VM's very fast. All the code that is executed runs native to the processors in the box, you have to recompile everything to run on them.
see this url for more facts on IBM's stuff. I'm not saying it's the answer, but this paper from SUN is FUD.
http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zserie