After the slashdot effect, let see the keynote effect on applestore site: 30 minutes before the keynote adress: not available "for update", ok, I understand...
3 minutes after the end of the show, it was up and running for about 10 minutes now, it is quite dead.
Superb technical demonstration, Apple did not provide any live info: showing how easy it is to publish a podcast, and finally leading people to read text from a read only IRC channel (thanks macrumors!).
Obviuosly, there is something strange in the message...
Maybe they'd better use new intel imacs to power their website, instead of xservers (I assume)...
I hope to see something really soon on that link.
going to buy me a powerbook G4 on ebay, should be great deals on it really soon!
For use with general OSes, what could be interesting would be a dual-core PPE with those 8 SPE.
The first core could be the main processor, handling processes, and the second core, could just be there to be interrupted by dedicated threads executed on the SPEs, and communicate with them. The main problem would come from memory bandwidth used by the core which handles the 8 SPEs, it should be designed to minimize the impact on the first core.
A solution to this could be to have a cell processor and a traditional single-core processor, both of them using HT to improve memory bandwidth. But it seems to be complicated. Anyway, this Cell processor could be interesing as a threads management unit.
Another point should be to double memory to each SPE, and prefetch context switches while another thread is running on it, and once, the context switch is done, retrieve data from the previous thread: this could me managed by the PPE. And if you combine this solution with a non-synchronized timer interrupts on each SPEs, I bet you can get a pretty good improvement on memory bandwidth consumption made by a cell unit...
With all those basics ideas, I think that there is plenty of room to use efficiently those cell processors
the fact that firefox is opensource allows more people to review the code, so naturally, there should be more bugs reported. And also faster fixes to those, because, if a bad hacker reading code finds a hole, several good hackers can fix it, even before an exploit is born.
So the meaning of the holes is not the same: while on IE, it shows that the software is full of holes with some discovered by bad hackers, on firefox it shoows that the community of developers tends to be more active. In opensource, when a software becomes popular, it attracts more hackers and also more developers.
exploits are just successfull code reviews in the opensource world
I don't think that copying this controller would be enough to get all the functionalities embedded resulting in both the system and the controller.
In fact, there is a problem due to the adoption of flat screens: how can you detect the aim of a gun controller on such screens? You simply can't!
Microsoft had a solution for the xbox, because, there were still crt screens, abd the solution only applied for 100Hz tvs. But quite expensive!
So if you want to add this functionality to a flat screen, the device qhould be very expensive if not thought from conception of the system!
Nice job, I have found a successor for my dreamcast (gun games, and fishing is fantastic!!)
If they are going to launch a single satellite, it will be geostationary.
This means that latency will be awfull (around 1/4 of a second for a single paquet to reach its destination).
So according to this, users will have to define huge TCP windows to be able to reach the maximum throughpup.
The most interesting technology about satellite communications is based on low orbit satellites networks, but cernaly not on geostationary satellites!
It must be only an attempt to capture all the radio traffic in Japan from a single dish and use credits dedicated to Research for 'national security'.
The deal is that maybe that a profitable pattend could emmerge from the soar of "innovation" Microsoft tends to add to IE suite. So, by adding those crappy innovations to their pattent portfolio, they sure would break everything.
If you can double the density of your transistors anymoore, you still can fake it, by doubling the number of cores every year, as Intel and AMD will do.
Another thendy trick is to add units for hardware threads...
But, if you can figure out how make several layers of cores, the density will double every year again, mixing DVD technology and CPU manufacturers projects, this is the commercial version of moore's law...
File sharing use just means that Recrds comanies where not able to adapt: they wanted their money and nothing but the whole money...
They have ruled the custmers by distributing some poor songs, putting a lot of pressure ont the artists because there was no alternative!
Now, this alternative exists: artists can be known through the quality of their works, and they are directly judged by the auditors. They can fund their work by making more concerts and tours, this is a better reward than selling many cds and getting the smallest fraction after the distributor, the record company,...
I think that music, and artists have to encourage P2P, to gain their independance back from the period of the record industry totalitarism.
The same happens with opensource: the internet shapes the way ideas and intellectual products are distributed in the world, and that the way it should be: Ideas must be propagated, shared and enhanced or they are useless / copyrighted.
Some licences as creative common are emerging, and this has to be encouraged.
You can have a look at some very interesting articles here.
I would effectively be sad for Google it still was the same search engine as at the begining: the small relevant search engine with original indexing algorithms.
I think that this happens because wherever people click (firsts search results or ads) the relevancy should be better on the right side, because companies who are willing to pay for every click would be more relevant than the evendor site found in the search (try any electronic gadget for example...).
Now, Google is threatened by its power, it is the reference search engine, and that mean that it has to evolve. Everyone in the community knows how to increase its page ranking: there are many books about it.
What is the counter measure to that? It appears that they tend in derefencing sites, claiming by the way that they cannot do anything against cheating in their ranking system.
So what could be the real solution: a new google!
I mean a new search engine with different algorithms, based on the fact that google is the leader and that sites are optimized for google ranking. This could balance google power over the internet and increase the relevancy of 2 search engines.
After you successfully configured your anti-spam firewall, you are safe from outgoing attacks.
But then what will happen to you? You are just a lamb surrounded by wolves.
I have linux and, as far as I am concerned, have never been subject to such worms spreading by mail. So my situation is similar to a windows system properly configured to block outgoing mail.
The fact is that I receive a lot of email for those worm that oblige me to configure a spamassassin on my computer. I think that an anti spam filter is more efficient, at first, and quite easy to configure to block harmfull spam. Moreover, before trying to fix what goes out from your computer, if the incoming traffic was stop in the first place, no unwanted outgoing traffic would even exist.
I really think that the problem comes for laxist default firewalling rules (if any...) in widows system: if there was a blocking one for incoming traffic, it would be good thing for the average windows user, that would have to take firewalling into account if he wants to act as a server. At least he would know about the problem...
Instead of using the default Windows software, as you have seen, other applications runs well under windows: Firefox and Opera are cool for browsing, but now that you are on the way to change your mind, give thunderfox a try, it is far better than outlook (or outlook express).
Then, forget your included windows media player, and try alternatives like BSplayer and others. When you want to edit a picture, use Gimp for windows or replace your illegal copy of Word by OpenOffice.
And if you enjoy what you are getting, and this new perspective of choices, jump in and join the GNU/Linux community.
In the software industry, because of the behavior of the giants, small companies, funded on a bunch of patents, can not develop their derivated software: if they did so, these small comanies would face the offers of cross licences offers from giants and would loose any benefit from their patent. Because everytime you create a software, you are sure to use a patent issued by a big company, which often owns more than 10000 patents each.
That is why it is far more lucrative to issue a patent, and then not to implement it, just wait 1~2 years, and then threaten everyone who use your patented idea to sue them.
After that, people must find a way to avoid the patent, but, because of the late claim it must be a standard for the implemented software, and here comes the problem.
If you've got an idea, you can patent it, but not implement it. If you implement an innovative software, you can be threatened at anytime (think about gif).
Big companies, such as IBM, have so many patents that everytime someone comes with an innovative patented idea, they just sue him telling that his inovative software breaks 100 IBM patents, and so IBM proposes him to sign a cross-patent licence, that allows IBM to use his idea and IBM won't sue him anymore.
So due to the patenting policy of all the big companies, no new idea is rewarding for his inventor in the field of software patents. Because a software implies so many ideas, it is subject ot a lot of patents, that is the main difference with the other industry fields.
You should have a look at Richard Stallman's talk about patents, it is far more informative than this article, and also the presented books.
Patents are killing inovation, and let big companies use every new idea thanks to cross-patent licences...
This exactly means the contrary of what they said: locate or advertise services without using a directory server
Can anyone tell me what is DNS if not a directory service??
They only use a small trick to get informations about the network by using the DNS records. I think that another nice solution would have been to use directly a directory server such as LDAP, and find a way to gain access to it and retrieve structured and extensible information about the network.
I think that life is more like a huge P2P network: each field is a supernode and every crop in the field is a client, genes is the content.
So when you put a gene in any field, or this gene is created through mutation, this one is spread to other fields depending on the nature's interest in it. But here, instead of entertainment interets in a movie or music, nature keeps the genes that allow the crop to improve.
It is like if Fahrenheit911 did not find any distributer in the US, and it was put on bittorrent... Each clients want a copy, the fields are filled with patented crop, but who can you fight aqainst?
So, if Monsanto's gene was that terrific, it should be able to multiply freely across the "network", and none could stop it at an exponential reproduction rate, like a good movie on P2P. I think that, if they still have enough time to sue people, this gene won't survive in nature and is not so important.
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predicting wwdc 2006 keynote will be there!
Often, deduction is more reliable than news sites...
3 minutes after the end of the show, it was up and running for about 10 minutes now, it is quite dead.
Superb technical demonstration, Apple did not provide any live info: showing how easy it is to publish a podcast, and finally leading people to read text from a read only IRC channel (thanks macrumors!). Obviuosly, there is something strange in the message... Maybe they'd better use new intel imacs to power their website, instead of xservers (I assume)... I hope to see something really soon on that link.
going to buy me a powerbook G4 on ebay, should be great deals on it really soon!
The first core could be the main processor, handling processes, and the second core, could just be there to be interrupted by dedicated threads executed on the SPEs, and communicate with them. The main problem would come from memory bandwidth used by the core which handles the 8 SPEs, it should be designed to minimize the impact on the first core.
A solution to this could be to have a cell processor and a traditional single-core processor, both of them using HT to improve memory bandwidth. But it seems to be complicated. Anyway, this Cell processor could be interesing as a threads management unit.
Another point should be to double memory to each SPE, and prefetch context switches while another thread is running on it, and once, the context switch is done, retrieve data from the previous thread: this could me managed by the PPE. And if you combine this solution with a non-synchronized timer interrupts on each SPEs, I bet you can get a pretty good improvement on memory bandwidth consumption made by a cell unit...
With all those basics ideas, I think that there is plenty of room to use efficiently those cell processors
So the meaning of the holes is not the same: while on IE, it shows that the software is full of holes with some discovered by bad hackers, on firefox it shoows that the community of developers tends to be more active. In opensource, when a software becomes popular, it attracts more hackers and also more developers.
exploits are just successfull code reviews in the opensource world
I don't think that copying this controller would be enough to get all the functionalities embedded resulting in both the system and the controller. In fact, there is a problem due to the adoption of flat screens: how can you detect the aim of a gun controller on such screens? You simply can't! Microsoft had a solution for the xbox, because, there were still crt screens, abd the solution only applied for 100Hz tvs. But quite expensive! So if you want to add this functionality to a flat screen, the device qhould be very expensive if not thought from conception of the system! Nice job, I have found a successor for my dreamcast (gun games, and fishing is fantastic!!)
How can you create an open standard when pattents are designed to prevent the use of key design aspects in open projects?
There should be a kind of coherency between political decisions (suggested by lobbies), and reality...
Internet coffee would suit better.
I remember using a 12" powerbook, so much heat in such a small box! I prefer using my small transmeta notebook: no fan, no heat...
This was the only point that prevented me from buying a powerbook.
The most interesting technology about satellite communications is based on low orbit satellites networks, but cernaly not on geostationary satellites!
It must be only an attempt to capture all the radio traffic in Japan from a single dish and use credits dedicated to Research for 'national security'.
Anyway, this technology is already experimented in the Thalys train, linking Paris to Brussels http://www.thalys.com/be/en/wi-fi/overview
PSP is just about fashion!
Anyway I will only buy a PSP from lik-sang when my SDs will fit in it.
my favorite browser for rendering: http://lynx.browser.org/ the one for efficiency: http://www.gnu.org/software/wget/wget.html
If you can double the density of your transistors anymoore, you still can fake it, by doubling the number of cores every year, as Intel and AMD will do. Another thendy trick is to add units for hardware threads... But, if you can figure out how make several layers of cores, the density will double every year again, mixing DVD technology and CPU manufacturers projects, this is the commercial version of moore's law...
They have ruled the custmers by distributing some poor songs, putting a lot of pressure ont the artists because there was no alternative!
Now, this alternative exists: artists can be known through the quality of their works, and they are directly judged by the auditors. They can fund their work by making more concerts and tours, this is a better reward than selling many cds and getting the smallest fraction after the distributor, the record company,...
I think that music, and artists have to encourage P2P, to gain their independance back from the period of the record industry totalitarism.
The same happens with opensource: the internet shapes the way ideas and intellectual products are distributed in the world, and that the way it should be: Ideas must be propagated, shared and enhanced or they are useless / copyrighted.
Some licences as creative common are emerging, and this has to be encouraged.
You can have a look at some very interesting articles here.
Share / enhance this though or keep silent
I think that this happens because wherever people click (firsts search results or ads) the relevancy should be better on the right side, because companies who are willing to pay for every click would be more relevant than the evendor site found in the search (try any electronic gadget for example...).
Now, Google is threatened by its power, it is the reference search engine, and that mean that it has to evolve. Everyone in the community knows how to increase its page ranking: there are many books about it.
What is the counter measure to that? It appears that they tend in derefencing sites, claiming by the way that they cannot do anything against cheating in their ranking system. So what could be the real solution: a new google! I mean a new search engine with different algorithms, based on the fact that google is the leader and that sites are optimized for google ranking. This could balance google power over the internet and increase the relevancy of 2 search engines.
But then what will happen to you? You are just a lamb surrounded by wolves.
I have linux and, as far as I am concerned, have never been subject to such worms spreading by mail. So my situation is similar to a windows system properly configured to block outgoing mail.
The fact is that I receive a lot of email for those worm that oblige me to configure a spamassassin on my computer. I think that an anti spam filter is more efficient, at first, and quite easy to configure to block harmfull spam. Moreover, before trying to fix what goes out from your computer, if the incoming traffic was stop in the first place, no unwanted outgoing traffic would even exist.
I really think that the problem comes for laxist default firewalling rules (if any...) in widows system: if there was a blocking one for incoming traffic, it would be good thing for the average windows user, that would have to take firewalling into account if he wants to act as a server. At least he would know about the problem...
No more Bitorrent, Kazaa or edonkey, and none could even report it on slashdot.
Instead of using the default Windows software, as you have seen, other applications runs well under windows: Firefox and Opera are cool for browsing, but now that you are on the way to change your mind, give thunderfox a try, it is far better than outlook (or outlook express).
Then, forget your included windows media player, and try alternatives like BSplayer and others. When you want to edit a picture, use Gimp for windows or replace your illegal copy of Word by OpenOffice.
And if you enjoy what you are getting, and this new perspective of choices, jump in and join the GNU/Linux community.
That is why it is far more lucrative to issue a patent, and then not to implement it, just wait 1~2 years, and then threaten everyone who use your patented idea to sue them.
After that, people must find a way to avoid the patent, but, because of the late claim it must be a standard for the implemented software, and here comes the problem.
If you've got an idea, you can patent it, but not implement it. If you implement an innovative software, you can be threatened at anytime (think about gif).
So due to the patenting policy of all the big companies, no new idea is rewarding for his inventor in the field of software patents. Because a software implies so many ideas, it is subject ot a lot of patents, that is the main difference with the other industry fields.
You should have a look at Richard Stallman's talk about patents, it is far more informative than this article, and also the presented books.
Patents are killing inovation, and let big companies use every new idea thanks to cross-patent licences...
Can anyone tell me what is DNS if not a directory service??
They only use a small trick to get informations about the network by using the DNS records. I think that another nice solution would have been to use directly a directory server such as LDAP, and find a way to gain access to it and retrieve structured and extensible information about the network.
Is there such a hurry to put more wastes in this area of the world?
OK, let's get something more rewarding than those Hoaxes: everyone who moderates this post +1 will get 203.16$ !
What is really funny in this digital world is that the global comportment follows the human way of thinking...
When rules are for the others, is there any rule left?
So when you put a gene in any field, or this gene is created through mutation, this one is spread to other fields depending on the nature's interest in it. But here, instead of entertainment interets in a movie or music, nature keeps the genes that allow the crop to improve.
It is like if Fahrenheit911 did not find any distributer in the US, and it was put on bittorrent... Each clients want a copy, the fields are filled with patented crop, but who can you fight aqainst?
So, if Monsanto's gene was that terrific, it should be able to multiply freely across the "network", and none could stop it at an exponential reproduction rate, like a good movie on P2P. I think that, if they still have enough time to sue people, this gene won't survive in nature and is not so important.
The difference here with TV, is that there may be a mean to directly get the broadcasted signal, instead of capturing the resulting pictures.
That will be time very effective, less power consuming, and this MPEG2 ripped signal could be directly broadcasted through multicast on the internet.
Thanks to HDTV, we won't need HDTV.