They need to get people on board with the cell. As a dev I know multiprocessor coding is difficult and the new compilers that are allowing us to spend more time coding then figuring out what needs to be run in parallel while waiting on another process to finish. The kernel in the xbox 360 does a better job of actually breaking the executable into different executable code for the different cores, strictly because it has the compiler in the DK that does it. MS has years of multi proc experience and did it right here.
Sony DK is bad , the compiler is an ibm knock off and not a whole lot of it is friendly to the devs. It is a poor example of a multi proc compiler. They like other OS devs need better multi proc compilers with the vision to create an executable that has multiple executables built inside of it and have those mini apps sent to a core by the kernel to be worked. The Sony dk takes time to learn to do well , while the 360 is very close to windows in a multi core environment.
Sony needs to invest heavily in the developers at this point and work with them in making the games easier to run across the cell. Once that happens it could very well tip the scale in their favor. The 360 was not really designed for full hd gaming the ps3 was.
For now until the ps3 comes down to the $300 price point with hdmi , rj45 jack , and wireless controllers they don't have my money. But I do still tinker with the code to try and get more apps running better on the ps3 linux port:)
As a former Sun employee and still open solaris dev. I can say your 100 % right. They never like lawsuits. They understand all it does is make lawyers rich, and barely ever gets to the root of the issue, especially when a non technical judge or jury makes a decision based on how much a lawyer makes them think is right.
Because I usually like to mod up posts I know about and help moderate in conversations that I actually understand. So I sacrifice the ability to mod up any one for the sake of making a point which I had experienced in the past.
To make a point in spite of killing my ability to mod, what happens when they just start wiping out encrypted packets next ? One cable started throttling encrypted traffic as well and basically killed vpn for every one.
The idea f this being a cat and mouse game should be absurd , they should stop mangling any data and design capacity to handle this issue. Move on to docsis 3.0 and then keep the uploads where they are , maybe see if bonding upstream channels are possible to loosen the network up a little.
The thought I have to play cat and mouse to help FOSS community when seeding debian torrents, just pisses me off. I pay for the high speed tier and I help the community with a service I paid for. To me this sets a dangerous precedence and it could make this an option for other companies who don't want to develop their networks to deal with the coming generation of applications that may need more bandwidth. When they start breaking protocols but leave spambots and bot nets alone I have a real issue.
Well he did use a Honda engine. So we know the engine won't die in mid flight.
I can see these guys crashing into the side of an elephant.
Besides the thing don't get very far off the ground , they said about 15 feet, so I don't think they would die in an accident. Probably some really bad cuts and a broken bone or so , unless those blades go wacky and he hits some people with them.
I believe the unlocking came from the fact you could install different software. You did not have to damage the phone at all , it was a software application that actually did the unlocking. So apple stopped that with the new update and bricked phones that had run the software.
Easy way to prove it is to grab the newest firmware and disassemble it via community channels. And once the community disassembles and comments the code it will be easy to show how they bricked the phone and if it was intentional.
This brings to mind 1 question. Can we sandbox an IM client ? Maybe anything related to IE should no be sandboxed. Something has to be done to try and stem the worms that seem to just keep coming from IE based exploits.
May I suggest you sell off that Yugo and 386 and move up to a Toyota corolla and Athlon 64 ?
You won't see any of that happen until it hits home for a couple of the high ups in government, if their data gets stolen big deal its tax payers who foot the bill , but if some one steals their identity and ruins their life for a couple months maybe something will change.
From May http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9722313-1.html , but it shows that no IM client is secure , less bloated yes and patched faster yes , but not secure from some one willing and wanting to do harm.
IMHO any open source IM client is inherently better. It's patched faster 90 % of the time.
Unfortunately for work I do need windows , and the migration from XP to vista is really driving me nuts at work. Unfortunately all the newer devices are coming with XP and the students don't want to ditch it in favor of XP because it costs them money.
The issue is both the OS and the MS dev cycle, they had to bend over for the **AA to give it's blessing to the OS. For the ability to play HD content no less, both video and music are DRMed.
Great my 1680 x 1050 monitor can't play HD content, I don't care about it. Oh wait I have a 1080P Plasma TV to do that. Give me a DRMless option to use that may run like xp.
Strip the DRM out of the OS and get rid of the fluff, and it may be as good as some of the linux distributions, to me once they went with DRM in the OS I knew it was going to be slow. I don't want to run 4 gigs of ram , 4 procs , and a $500 video card just to get a decent user experience.
I am sitting fat dumb and happy running Fedora with quad core and 2 gigs of ram. It does everything I need it to as well as run XP in a VM just in case I need the odd Windows app that don't run right in Wine.
MS needs to get off the high horse and come to the table with a decent OS , to me Vista is the new ME. Hopefully it will die and the Next Os will be as strong as Xp is. Or maybe service pack 1 will remove all the stupid crap they loaded into Vista. I had to remove it from a laptop HDD just to install Fedora , since the Vista boot manager didn't like my install.
Im going to kill my use of my mod points. Here goes.
This whole digital copying thing is a really horrible precedent to set in this country.
I really want to know why they equate digital copying to theft , we pay for data bits and the electricity to get and send them as well as paying for the service to transport it. This completely ticks me off.
If the person was selling "back ups" then I am all for having them arrested and they should be sitting in their home with out a internet connection or computer. I see nothing wrong with selling and installing mod chips.
While IP issues should be resolved in a civil case , they should not be wasting resources on this. Yet another waste of resources.
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Only for the folks handing out the stock options.
This is /. , your not supposed to RTFA !
They could still pull it out.
:)
They need to get people on board with the cell. As a dev I know multiprocessor coding is difficult and the new compilers that are allowing us to spend more time coding then figuring out what needs to be run in parallel while waiting on another process to finish. The kernel in the xbox 360 does a better job of actually breaking the executable into different executable code for the different cores, strictly because it has the compiler in the DK that does it. MS has years of multi proc experience and did it right here.
Sony DK is bad , the compiler is an ibm knock off and not a whole lot of it is friendly to the devs. It is a poor example of a multi proc compiler. They like other OS devs need better multi proc compilers with the vision to create an executable that has multiple executables built inside of it and have those mini apps sent to a core by the kernel to be worked. The Sony dk takes time to learn to do well , while the 360 is very close to windows in a multi core environment.
Sony needs to invest heavily in the developers at this point and work with them in making the games easier to run across the cell. Once that happens it could very well tip the scale in their favor. The 360 was not really designed for full hd gaming the ps3 was.
For now until the ps3 comes down to the $300 price point with hdmi , rj45 jack , and wireless controllers they don't have my money. But I do still tinker with the code to try and get more apps running better on the ps3 linux port
As a former Sun employee and still open solaris dev. I can say your 100 % right. They never like lawsuits. They understand all it does is make lawyers rich, and barely ever gets to the root of the issue, especially when a non technical judge or jury makes a decision based on how much a lawyer makes them think is right.
Because I usually like to mod up posts I know about and help moderate in conversations that I actually understand. So I sacrifice the ability to mod up any one for the sake of making a point which I had experienced in the past.
So you say I can get a "modchip" for a wii ? Whats this modchip you speak of used for ?
To make a point in spite of killing my ability to mod, what happens when they just start wiping out encrypted packets next ? One cable started throttling encrypted traffic as well and basically killed vpn for every one.
The idea f this being a cat and mouse game should be absurd , they should stop mangling any data and design capacity to handle this issue. Move on to docsis 3.0 and then keep the uploads where they are , maybe see if bonding upstream channels are possible to loosen the network up a little.
The thought I have to play cat and mouse to help FOSS community when seeding debian torrents, just pisses me off. I pay for the high speed tier and I help the community with a service I paid for. To me this sets a dangerous precedence and it could make this an option for other companies who don't want to develop their networks to deal with the coming generation of applications that may need more bandwidth. When they start breaking protocols but leave spambots and bot nets alone I have a real issue.
I just don't see this thing surviving a crash into a hut, yet alone a building.
Well he did use a Honda engine. So we know the engine won't die in mid flight.
I can see these guys crashing into the side of an elephant.
Besides the thing don't get very far off the ground , they said about 15 feet, so I don't think they would die in an accident. Probably some really bad cuts and a broken bone or so , unless those blades go wacky and he hits some people with them.
Well back to stealing porno mags from the old mans stash.
God I feel bad for ripping off my 80 year old dad's playboys from the 70's ! Oh wow never knew there could be that much hair down there !
Think I will buy a couple dozen copies of the ebook version and send it to many of the sites that get slashdotted every time they are posted.
You mean like the new comcast commercials ?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4CeTglmI0
"Solly Logel, you tigel now."
I believe the unlocking came from the fact you could install different software. You did not have to damage the phone at all , it was a software application that actually did the unlocking. So apple stopped that with the new update and bricked phones that had run the software.
Easy way to prove it is to grab the newest firmware and disassemble it via community channels. And once the community disassembles and comments the code it will be easy to show how they bricked the phone and if it was intentional.
YES ! Finally Tux Racer in all it's full accelerated glory !
This brings to mind 1 question. Can we sandbox an IM client ? Maybe anything related to IE should no be sandboxed. Something has to be done to try and stem the worms that seem to just keep coming from IE based exploits.
May I suggest you sell off that Yugo and 386 and move up to a Toyota corolla and Athlon 64 ?
You won't see any of that happen until it hits home for a couple of the high ups in government, if their data gets stolen big deal its tax payers who foot the bill , but if some one steals their identity and ruins their life for a couple months maybe something will change.
From May http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9722313-1.html , but it shows that no IM client is secure , less bloated yes and patched faster yes , but not secure from some one willing and wanting to do harm.
IMHO any open source IM client is inherently better. It's patched faster 90 % of the time.
So it can render the emoticons every one seems to love. Or if your like me hate with a passion.
I think it also transports the text and such in XML which is why it uses the rendering engine.
Unfortunately for work I do need windows , and the migration from XP to vista is really driving me nuts at work. Unfortunately all the newer devices are coming with XP and the students don't want to ditch it in favor of XP because it costs them money.
I think MS is in bed with Akimai, they want to get money from most isps, so they make the dev environments so huge smart people will cringe !
The issue is both the OS and the MS dev cycle, they had to bend over for the **AA to give it's blessing to the OS. For the ability to play HD content no less, both video and music are DRMed.
Great my 1680 x 1050 monitor can't play HD content, I don't care about it. Oh wait I have a 1080P Plasma TV to do that. Give me a DRMless option to use that may run like xp.
Strip the DRM out of the OS and get rid of the fluff, and it may be as good as some of the linux distributions, to me once they went with DRM in the OS I knew it was going to be slow. I don't want to run 4 gigs of ram , 4 procs , and a $500 video card just to get a decent user experience.
I am sitting fat dumb and happy running Fedora with quad core and 2 gigs of ram. It does everything I need it to as well as run XP in a VM just in case I need the odd Windows app that don't run right in Wine.
MS needs to get off the high horse and come to the table with a decent OS , to me Vista is the new ME. Hopefully it will die and the Next Os will be as strong as Xp is. Or maybe service pack 1 will remove all the stupid crap they loaded into Vista. I had to remove it from a laptop HDD just to install Fedora , since the Vista boot manager didn't like my install.
You obviously don't know apple very well. the iPhaser has a setting called iStun !
No they have quad core procs running windows vista ultimate soldier edition.
Didn't you read the article about the soldier with the dead unit ! Geez read the article !
Im going to kill my use of my mod points. Here goes.
This whole digital copying thing is a really horrible precedent to set in this country.
I really want to know why they equate digital copying to theft , we pay for data bits and the electricity to get and send them as well as paying for the service to transport it. This completely ticks me off.
If the person was selling "back ups" then I am all for having them arrested and they should be sitting in their home with out a internet connection or computer. I see nothing wrong with selling and installing mod chips.
While IP issues should be resolved in a civil case , they should not be wasting resources on this. Yet another waste of resources.
Does that mean he has lots of PedoFiles ;)