I just hope it isn't bogged down in political red tape (pun not intended), and that this is a real science expedition, with the results freely shared among the scientist of the entire world.
Seems like people are flaming me for some reason. My point was that, a lot of people don't seem to know how to believe since a lot of the stuff in the media is contradictory and a word war over who is right.
When you have two different groups of people who seem to know what they are doing and they contradict each other it's hard to get the real facts out of the noise. So I suggested people take a look for themselves in their own environment. Besides in each persons own heart they think truth is whatever they themselves lead to believe base on the facts surrounding them.
It might be a normal climate shift, it might be global warming, I dont know for sure. But I do know in my lifetime what I see now adays is a lot different than what I saw as a child. That is solid proof, so if someone says "CO2 is causing global warming" I'm going to lead a bit toward them because I can see it for myself. Though I'm willing to accept it could be a normal cycle.
I don't care what people want to label it, but things seem to be changing. And if there is a slight chance it's our fault, then I personally am trying to remedy that by not driving as much, car pooling, or doing at least my share. Granted it's won't really change much if anything, but I'm reacting in my own way with the feeling I have.
The whole debate is just confusing. You have "scientists" who claim this and that, and try to debunk each others findings. While I tried to keep a mental record of it, it's just pointless.
For those of you who wonder if it's real don't listen to the news or read the papers, look outside.
I live about an hour from the Canadian border so it gets pretty cold up here. This past winter we didnt get any snow till February. In fact, I saw a groundhog out on Jan 1st. Trees and shrubs in my yard were starting to to bud in early January.
While I'm not that old (under 30), when I was young I remember having a white christmas almost every year, and it started snowing in November and lasted till late Feb or March. Now we might get 1-2 snow storms a year and they tend to be small.
If this isn't global warming, I don't care. But it is messed up, and I find it hard to believe it isn't our fault.
"Their co-existence makes it unlikely that Homo erectus evolved from Homo habilis,"
I don't see why co-existence would discount evolving from Homo Habilis. Since after all if we really did evolve from primates, there would be no primates today under this logic.
It' still possible that some Homo Habilis evolved into Homo erectus while others remained homo habilis. Just as monkeys evolved into whatever became the H. Habilis, yet monkeys still exist.
Didn't they increase the price of their software to compensate for the so-called "loss due to piracy"? This seems counter intuitive. If they drop prices, all they are doing is giving people more reason to pirate it.
I was under the impression, there was limits on what people could buy in China. A chinese class mate was telling me how you would get slips, that would authorize you the ability to buy 1 computer. But you were limited on how many or what you could buy. So even if you were rich, it wasn't like you could go down to the store and buy 10 computers for a home cluster.
Anyone know more on this?
There is a simple truth that has to be made, it has to be 100% open and 100% free of patent infringment, so there's nothing to come back and bite people in the rear. To bad the ogg people dont work on this.
Movie pirating cost the industry $18.2 billion worldwide in 2005
That sounds really high. I wonder how they even came up with those numbers. It's like counting how many Linux desktops there are. You can't count what people "might" have seen.
Something I've always wondered. It's common knowledge, the.com burst "lost a lot of people money". But money doesnt go away, it just shifts. I wonder who really profited from the bubble. If someone owns a bunch of overvalued stock and sells it, then it tanks and the owns "lost everything" the person originally selling it still made a lot of money. Same with businesses, I'm sure a lot of money was spend on buildings, hardware, whatever so the people selling those must have made a lot of money.
A real bubble exploding in my view is just a massive transfer of money from one market (or segment) to another. Am I wrong if so what is the reality of the situation?
Before citing "bait and switch" and "fair competition", think of the smaller traders who would be harmed by simply having to defend against a bogus class action because they missed out a zero on their web shop, some bozo posted the to slashdot and 30 minutes later they had "sold" ten thousand $1000 laptops for $100 each.
While I agree with you, it's the price of doing business. There is a reason why managers are anal. Because every freaking letter and dotted i counts.
This would be the same effect if you picked up the Sunday paper and found Best Buy selling a $1000 laptop for $100. Those flyers are designed and setup 6months to a year in advance. People make sure there aren't mistakes at great lengths because "you have to sell for the marked price"
So if I was a small company, I would make pretty sure every last 0 was on there before posting.
It's not like the 90's where anyone with a basic idea and a BS/BA degree could get venture capital to start up "the next best thing".
Most of those companies died out, and people are more cautious with their money. Most of the new companies and ones who survived are service related. Those can live on, and whether it's AJAX or the next big tech, it doesnt matter. If you fill a real niche and make a solid product you will survive. If you're a new company living in an AJAX web 2.0 dream thinking you're cool, and hiding behind some pretty effects but no real substance you're in for a long trip. This is true for any business.
I've been to several universities and I think it's safe to say all had some form of "supercomputer" for their CompSci department. A lot of it has to deal with how you define a super computer. Granted 15+ years ago Supercomputer meant Cray or IBM, but since Beowulf and the concept of using inexpensive parts to form clusters. MOsix/PVM/MVP, etc are all technologies that can allow people to use "the old labs computers" as a cluster, or get funding for some new hardware that's becomes a cluster.
It's a lot cheaper to buy 20-30 regular computers than a 1million cray or IBM "supercomputer".
One of the reasons I like the linux kernel is because it's very modular. Why can't both schedulers be included in the kernel, and the person compiling the kernel set which one they want? Kinda like how you could select between Alsa or OSS, or a myriad of other feature that are different but serve a similiar purpose?
After reading the patent the one thing that popped in my mind that is "similar" to the Cell concept is the idea of having 1 master node CPU to help direct the remaining CPU's.
While most dual/quad systems, the program or OS itself takes care the threading. With Cell and apparently this patent the master CPU helps take care of that. Still not a very patent. As the concept of a master node and slaves nodes for parallel processing has been around for decades. Just those tend to be 1 computer acting as a master with other slave "computer" nodes. Just in this patents case they're replacing "computer" with "CPU"
I hope they leave those god damned clone kids out of it though
Agree the clones in Futurama remind me of Scrappy Doo in Scooby Doo. Both annoying characters. Though I'm glad to get a solid date. This is one of my favorite American shows.
Sorry don't remember the link but it was a week ago, talking about the toolchain used by some guy to write hello world, and now apache, php are on the iphone *Shrug*
Agree $3 is better than $0. They already have their cash cow now. If they can squeeze any more money it's just gravy. Plus China has the largest population. If you can get $3 out of 1billion people that's still $3billion for nothing more than pressing more CD's. Plus it's not the OS that they are selling but the opportunity for op sales, we'll pitch in X-package for just $2 more.
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I just hope it isn't bogged down in political red tape (pun not intended), and that this is a real science expedition, with the results freely shared among the scientist of the entire world.
When you have two different groups of people who seem to know what they are doing and they contradict each other it's hard to get the real facts out of the noise. So I suggested people take a look for themselves in their own environment. Besides in each persons own heart they think truth is whatever they themselves lead to believe base on the facts surrounding them.
It might be a normal climate shift, it might be global warming, I dont know for sure. But I do know in my lifetime what I see now adays is a lot different than what I saw as a child. That is solid proof, so if someone says "CO2 is causing global warming" I'm going to lead a bit toward them because I can see it for myself. Though I'm willing to accept it could be a normal cycle.
I don't care what people want to label it, but things seem to be changing. And if there is a slight chance it's our fault, then I personally am trying to remedy that by not driving as much, car pooling, or doing at least my share. Granted it's won't really change much if anything, but I'm reacting in my own way with the feeling I have.
Dont' see how that is flame worthy.
For those of you who wonder if it's real don't listen to the news or read the papers, look outside. I live about an hour from the Canadian border so it gets pretty cold up here. This past winter we didnt get any snow till February. In fact, I saw a groundhog out on Jan 1st. Trees and shrubs in my yard were starting to to bud in early January.
While I'm not that old (under 30), when I was young I remember having a white christmas almost every year, and it started snowing in November and lasted till late Feb or March. Now we might get 1-2 snow storms a year and they tend to be small.
If this isn't global warming, I don't care. But it is messed up, and I find it hard to believe it isn't our fault.
Know what I'm doing this weekend :) now if only this could be modified for Laser tag
I don't see why co-existence would discount evolving from Homo Habilis. Since after all if we really did evolve from primates, there would be no primates today under this logic.
It' still possible that some Homo Habilis evolved into Homo erectus while others remained homo habilis. Just as monkeys evolved into whatever became the H. Habilis, yet monkeys still exist.
When MRI and other can cost over $1 million, 40k isn't that much.
Did anyone else notice the chacha looks nearly identical to google. Will definitely try it out.
Didn't they increase the price of their software to compensate for the so-called "loss due to piracy"? This seems counter intuitive. If they drop prices, all they are doing is giving people more reason to pirate it.
I was under the impression, there was limits on what people could buy in China. A chinese class mate was telling me how you would get slips, that would authorize you the ability to buy 1 computer. But you were limited on how many or what you could buy. So even if you were rich, it wasn't like you could go down to the store and buy 10 computers for a home cluster. Anyone know more on this?
Me wants it...my precious.
if you put a https instead of http for gmail.google.com it'll work. I dont understand why they don't do this by default if they already support it.
There is a simple truth that has to be made, it has to be 100% open and 100% free of patent infringment, so there's nothing to come back and bite people in the rear. To bad the ogg people dont work on this.
That sounds really high. I wonder how they even came up with those numbers. It's like counting how many Linux desktops there are. You can't count what people "might" have seen.
A real bubble exploding in my view is just a massive transfer of money from one market (or segment) to another. Am I wrong if so what is the reality of the situation?
While I agree with you, it's the price of doing business. There is a reason why managers are anal. Because every freaking letter and dotted i counts. This would be the same effect if you picked up the Sunday paper and found Best Buy selling a $1000 laptop for $100. Those flyers are designed and setup 6months to a year in advance. People make sure there aren't mistakes at great lengths because "you have to sell for the marked price"
So if I was a small company, I would make pretty sure every last 0 was on there before posting.
It's not like the 90's where anyone with a basic idea and a BS/BA degree could get venture capital to start up "the next best thing". Most of those companies died out, and people are more cautious with their money. Most of the new companies and ones who survived are service related. Those can live on, and whether it's AJAX or the next big tech, it doesnt matter. If you fill a real niche and make a solid product you will survive. If you're a new company living in an AJAX web 2.0 dream thinking you're cool, and hiding behind some pretty effects but no real substance you're in for a long trip. This is true for any business.
It's a lot cheaper to buy 20-30 regular computers than a 1million cray or IBM "supercomputer".
One of the reasons I like the linux kernel is because it's very modular. Why can't both schedulers be included in the kernel, and the person compiling the kernel set which one they want? Kinda like how you could select between Alsa or OSS, or a myriad of other feature that are different but serve a similiar purpose?
While most dual/quad systems, the program or OS itself takes care the threading. With Cell and apparently this patent the master CPU helps take care of that. Still not a very patent. As the concept of a master node and slaves nodes for parallel processing has been around for decades. Just those tend to be 1 computer acting as a master with other slave "computer" nodes. Just in this patents case they're replacing "computer" with "CPU"
Personally I hope Sony wins.
Agree the clones in Futurama remind me of Scrappy Doo in Scooby Doo. Both annoying characters. Though I'm glad to get a solid date. This is one of my favorite American shows.
Thought almost ALL cars around the world used VxWorks for their embedded systems.
So I take it your iPhone battery ran out after only 9 months of use? +1 mod funny, it hasn't been out 9 months.
Sorry don't remember the link but it was a week ago, talking about the toolchain used by some guy to write hello world, and now apache, php are on the iphone *Shrug*
Agree $3 is better than $0. They already have their cash cow now. If they can squeeze any more money it's just gravy. Plus China has the largest population. If you can get $3 out of 1billion people that's still $3billion for nothing more than pressing more CD's. Plus it's not the OS that they are selling but the opportunity for op sales, we'll pitch in X-package for just $2 more.
Does happy dance!