My point exactly. Take a kid in rural china living on 1/2 cup of rice a day, bare foot, diseased what he considers a bad day.
I see kids now who will throw a complete fit because someone looked at them funny, they couldn't stay 5 minutes somewhere, couldn't get that game 2 hours earlier, couldn't see the exact movie they wanted.
It's already starting unfortunately. There has to be a healthy way for kids to grow up and have a thicker skin. There's a big difference between someone physically beating you down and "But mom some kid in my class posted on MySpace that I'm a moron, sue him mommy so I can get a PS3 else I'm going to scream my head off for hours.".
I'm in favor of trying to keep people from bullying of emotionally/physically abusing another person. But the same time there needs to be a strong long drawn; otherwise we'll end up with a generation of people emotionally/psychologically weak.
The hardware market for low-middle level consumer PC's is dead. No one really makes any money of selling the hardware, it's selling it and making a few pennies on the bundled software and the service agreements.
Guess MS can make at least $100 per machine, because unlike OEM's they have to pay $0 for the Window OS. That's a better margin than the Dells of the world. Plus they can control the numbers (we sold 10k machines all with Vista).
While the hardware does sound like a good bang for your buck. Personally I don't care what card is supported via any version of DirectX. Especially since DX10 is Vista only.
Let me know when there are good Linux drivers out closed or not, and MesaGL plays happily with it.
I've tried both and VMWare is just better. I respect Linux/GPL and the OSS movement, though the main reason I use linux is not just those reasons it's because IT WORKS. So when it comes down to Xen or VMware I use vmware because it works better.
Xen is FOSS so there is potential for them to catch up and with the nature of FOSS new ideas can be tossed in easier. So when that day comes I'll gladly switch over, it's just not there yet.
This move is the latest in a series by the previous large corporation we all loved to hate to compete with the newest large corporation we might hate and fear, Google.
Wait what? We hate who... I can guess we all dislike MS, but I dont think fear or hate should be in the same sentence with Google.
Are they entering with a new grid? Or just entering the market as a switch provider. Either way it sounds like they've done some good work. But if it's for an actual grid and not just switches what CPU's are they using? I use to love Sparc back in the day along with Alpha, but they both seem to have more or less died in the last 4-5 years. Did Sparc ever get past 2ghz?
The switches do sound awesome though, will give infiniband a run for their money.
I've been wanting to buy an SBC for some time now, but they are very high. Why buy and SBC when I can get a microATX for a lot cheaper and still be somewhat small.
As long as it's supported in the kernel that's all that matters. I'm sure some people still use Alpha's even thought they went the way of the doodoo many a year ago. (Wonderful architecture though, wish it hadn't died).
We really need to mandate that any computer used with sensitive material, laptop on the road or desktop at the office, has an encrypted hard drive and a biometric reader with BIOS level support so you can't even boot the thing w/o reading your fingerprint/eyes/etc.
As for the email, I'm surprised the even have a open link to the internet on a machine with sensitive information.
As a parallel programmer, I'd love to have just one of these chips let alone one of the boards in a nice 2u rack.
Can they bought at a reasonable price or strictly research or inhouse?
How long till a new myspace or "cool" site comes along that uses silverlight. When word of mouth gets around and people say "hey want to join x.com it's all the rave now and it's cool". (Think teenagers) then it's only a "Press ok to install missing plugin" away.
I would bet MS is already pitching this to the next gen.coms. All it takes is a few key sites and people will use it.
Do you think Flash would be where it is today if it wasn't for sites like atomfilms, youtube, and the countless homebrew animation sites?
Same thing with Ajax, think it would have been as popular if gmail, google apps had not used it?
Do TV tuner cards count as a TV then? Seems you want to watch TV on your computer anyway so this might be a nice way out. Plus you could use your computer as a DVR ala MythTV or similiar packages and skip the whole iPhone mess.
Then again I dont know how the laws work in England, but I would think this would be "fair use".
Try thinking of it like this. Say MS created IE before any other person when the http protocol was first published. This is like a group of guys saying "hey I want a version for linux" and getting together to write firefox from scratch. Yes it would be copying IE, in that it's a browser and uses a standard protocol. But the important issue here, is that it's bringing (what could be) and important new technology to Linux.
I'd rather have a program for a technology that might die, than not have a program for a technology that might explode. Time will only tell how well people adopt Silverlight, but at least we have an option for linux.
For my earlier example how would you feel if noone ever created Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape and all we had was IE.
Nope but I had an account there for a month. Which had me listed in a extended friends list of over 1million or something silly like that. Kept getting a lot of questionnaires and surveys, with questions geared toward a teenager. That on top of the eye-ball melting layout and google ads it wasn't worth it. I have my own server now with my own software set the way I like it.
I'm just stating what it was like for me, if it helps other people then wonderful. If you found some dates and meet some friends, awesome. Just wasn't something I found useful for myself.
In a world where robots or mechanical problem solvers negate the usefulness of humans would break our current model.
While it could be the end of greed, how will we distribute wealth if not by defining classes by how people work?
I think it would break it down to two possibilities: upper class those who can fix the robots or create new models, lower class those who cannot.
programming model that supports AJAX, VB, C#, Python, and Ruby
Is it just me or did Perl just go away? I love Perl and use it on a daily bases. But it seems like of lot of things are going the route of Python and Ruby. When did this happen?
Is Silverlight a public API or closed? Either way this is great news, as some sites might start utilizing it. Personally I think Adobe beat them to the market by a decade. Flash is already soaked in the mainstream, so it'll be tough for MS to uproot Adobe from that position.
Regardless though, having a native solution is always good.
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Funny my first post was marked troll, but a reworded followup was marked +5
It's already starting unfortunately. There has to be a healthy way for kids to grow up and have a thicker skin. There's a big difference between someone physically beating you down and "But mom some kid in my class posted on MySpace that I'm a moron, sue him mommy so I can get a PS3 else I'm going to scream my head off for hours.".
I'm in favor of trying to keep people from bullying of emotionally/physically abusing another person. But the same time there needs to be a strong long drawn; otherwise we'll end up with a generation of people emotionally/psychologically weak.
Guess MS can make at least $100 per machine, because unlike OEM's they have to pay $0 for the Window OS. That's a better margin than the Dells of the world. Plus they can control the numbers (we sold 10k machines all with Vista).
I might be off, but didnt ATI make Radeons? Thought AMD was strictly CPU.
Let me know when there are good Linux drivers out closed or not, and MesaGL plays happily with it.
because it sucks when there's a bug in hardware unless it's possible to do a firmware upgrade to fix or work around it.
Xen is FOSS so there is potential for them to catch up and with the nature of FOSS new ideas can be tossed in easier. So when that day comes I'll gladly switch over, it's just not there yet.
Wait what? We hate who... I can guess we all dislike MS, but I dont think fear or hate should be in the same sentence with Google.
The switches do sound awesome though, will give infiniband a run for their money.
I've been wanting to buy an SBC for some time now, but they are very high. Why buy and SBC when I can get a microATX for a lot cheaper and still be somewhat small.
As long as it's supported in the kernel that's all that matters. I'm sure some people still use Alpha's even thought they went the way of the doodoo many a year ago. (Wonderful architecture though, wish it hadn't died).
As for the email, I'm surprised the even have a open link to the internet on a machine with sensitive information.
I would guess so considering Linux has been on the Power line of CPU's for years now :)
Each chip in this case has 4 cores, so it can use parallelized software. Just a Core Due 2.
As a parallel programmer, I'd love to have just one of these chips let alone one of the boards in a nice 2u rack. Can they bought at a reasonable price or strictly research or inhouse?
I would bet MS is already pitching this to the next gen .coms. All it takes is a few key sites and people will use it.
Do you think Flash would be where it is today if it wasn't for sites like atomfilms, youtube, and the countless homebrew animation sites?
Same thing with Ajax, think it would have been as popular if gmail, google apps had not used it?
Then again I dont know how the laws work in England, but I would think this would be "fair use".
Will the binary codecs for mplayer work with this stream? Not sure DRM is handled in this fashion but it does let you view wmv files.
I'd rather have a program for a technology that might die, than not have a program for a technology that might explode. Time will only tell how well people adopt Silverlight, but at least we have an option for linux.
For my earlier example how would you feel if noone ever created Mozilla/Firefox/Netscape and all we had was IE.
How is Pythons regex? One reason I love Perl is because of it's regex and the ability to write some serious code in just one or two lines.
I'm just stating what it was like for me, if it helps other people then wonderful. If you found some dates and meet some friends, awesome. Just wasn't something I found useful for myself.
I think it would break it down to two possibilities: upper class those who can fix the robots or create new models, lower class those who cannot.
Is it just me or did Perl just go away? I love Perl and use it on a daily bases. But it seems like of lot of things are going the route of Python and Ruby. When did this happen?
Time to pick up a Ruby on Rails and Python book.
Regardless though, having a native solution is always good.