as there are a lot of other languages out there that have occupied my interest. However, from my experience with Java, it would seem that Ruby on Rails is a really nice framework. I've recently begun working with Python and Zope, and am interested, personally, in how they compare, too.
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a really well-designed architecture. I haven't had much cahnce to futz with it due to cost of the equipment, but the chips are erally powerful. Loads of cache, lots and lots of registers, few instructions (God bless RISC), and a really wide data path. I hope this can spark some new life into the company.
Sun's huge investment into Java and Solaris hasn't thrilled me (I personally haven't really found Java all that interesting), and I prefer to use Linux, though their recent Open Solaris project does look interesting. Maybe if they'd focused more on hardware they wouldn't have needed to use the Opterons in as a large a role as they have. The Opteron (an AMD64 in general) is a nice architecture, getting the benefits of really wide data paths and decent amounts of cache, but is still stuck with not many GPRs and that pesky x86 compatibility. Being able to run old software natively instead of through some kludge of a compatibility layer (Itanium) is a Good Thing (tm) when it comes to getting people to move to your hardware, however, I hope AMD has the decency to kill of x86 in a couple years, once 'everybody' has made the switch.
I'm looking forward to seeing this new SPARC in the real world, to see how it stacks up against other CPUs.
as there are a lot of other languages out there that have occupied my interest. However, from my experience with Java, it would seem that Ruby on Rails is a really nice framework. I've recently begun working with Python and Zope, and am interested, personally, in how they compare, too.
just gotta ask, what on God's green earth does this accomplish? (or God's black space, since it is in orbit.) Are they planning on breeding pigs in space now? (And do they need permission from the Henson if they do?)
I think they mean that the keyboard will have an open-source dev kit. There's been a lot of hype about the open-source graphics chip, but open-sourcing hardware doesn't really make sense. It's easy to open-source software because it doesn't really exist. There's no physical aspect to it, so replicating, modifying, and using it doesn't really incur any noticeable effort.
Compare that to hardware, a physical item we can hold. Replicating a keyboard, GPU, car, etc is remarkably difficult. The assumption is that anyone can make changes to it if they want. While this works in the software realm, it doesn't carry over to hardware. I don't have a foundry in my basement (though I wouldn't put it past some/.ers) which I could use to pour my own engine. I don't have a chip fab in my garage to make my own chips, so even if I discovered problems, or wanted to make changes, I couldn't do it.
The closest thing to open-source in hardware that I can think of are standardized buses, where 'anybody' can make a PCI slot, for example. I still can't do it because I don't injection-molding machines and a supply of gold contacts, but it's still possible.
Unless Art Lebedev hands the schematics out to anybody who wants them (logitech, microsoft, belkin, etc), the keyboard isn't open-source.
I'd like an option to keep my current service, but drop prices by 50% (which is direct line with the dial-up user base still running). Alternatively, for the same cost, bump my access speed up. There's a bunch of the 'mom and pop CNN and email checkers' who also help their kids with homework, play Yahoo! Games, and download music from iTunes. I wouldn't even be using the full bandwidth available to me, and I consider myself a fairly heavy power user. I don't download music over P2P (other than stuff that's in the public domain, or that I already have in some other format), so the speed incentive wouldn't be seen there for me.
But, for families with more than one box hooked up to the otside world through a router, a big speed boost would be great. The kids can play games, do homework, etc, and still not slow down mom and dad.
I personally believe that anything that can be done via private companies and competition is better than the government getting involved. Obvious exceptions to this include things like roads.
In the case of municipal WiFi, there are a huge number of public or semi-public hotspots all over major cities. The local governments would have to be offering a really good deal to make this beneficial to everyone. And if this is really a government service, though, one presumes it would be paid for via taxes of some kind. It would be better if the city got involved in helping private companies find places to put access points, perhaps providing some measure of physical security to those locations, for a fixed amount per location per month (let's say it's $3 per AP per month with a minimum of 1000 APs to cover a decent area). The company could then use some kind of authentication mechanism to make sure people connecting had paid for its service (maybe $25/mo).
The university I attend is modifying its wireless network to broadcast two seperate SSIDs - one that authenicated users (ie students, staff, faculty) can use (and is firewalled, etc) and a second that is wide open for anyone to use, but has no security whatsoever. Non-authenticated users could use a lower speed, and unsecured, version of the network (throttled back to a max of say 802.11b), while the paying subscribers would be able to use the higher available bandwidth (802.11a/g). This would allow people in lower income areas to still use the internet, but people who wanted more speed could pay for it.
Of course, with the new precedent set in Tampa Bay FL, how would municipalities actually be able to act on people using the network for illegal activity? (I personally think that it's the user's responsibility to not do anything illegal, but heaven help you if you believe in personal responsibility in America.)
Such muni WiFi projects could also impact other types of internet subscriptions (especially dial-up), and might be viewed as very anti-competitive to local, traditional ISPs.
I go to Elon University and they have a partnership with Apple in sharing songs purchased through iTunes on the campus network. It's been really great for the students, and illegal downloading has slowed quite a bit (from people I talk to, at least).
I personally prefer internet radio for most of listening. With the students' iTunes collections shared, it's like having a completely on-demand internet radio, that almost never suffers bottlenecks.
We're also pretty good about keeping after virii, and get most machines patched within a couple days of a new breakout (part of this is by semi-enforcing XP for PC users).
sign a pact to not spam? How does that work? The Chinese government is having enough trouble censoring normal internet traffic as it is. With 100 million internet users in the country, how big do those gateway mail relays need to be to be effectively blocking spam?
From working in a manufacturing environment, going to school, working other odd jobs before getting into IT, my skin's plenty thick enough. I just don't need to cuss to get my point across.
in the supreme court, and the lack of any recent appointments to the highest court in America, it seems like a good thing that there will be some new blood in the justice seat. I don't personally support everything Mr Bush has done as president, but he is my president, and as such deserves my respect.
I personally supported almost nothing the previous president did, but I still respected him for being President of the United States.
Also note that the justices appointed don't always carry otu the 'wishes' of the appointer. President Ford, a fairly conservative leader, managed to get one of the more liberal judges appointed.
What we really need is to get judges who stop trying to legislate from the bench, and return to applying law to the case, not writing law for a case.
It's too bad you couldn't have been there, then, to see it. And a shame you have to cuss me out because you didn't have the same experience. The parts weren't broken, as they worked fine under Linux, I've installed every version of windows from 3.1 to XP and NT4 (sorry, never played with 3.51) many times, both on personal machines, and doing computer tech work.
So, maybe ours is the only one that can support life? I personally think that life in some form could exist outside our own planet, but the more stories like that pop up, the less likely it seems.
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Sun's huge investment into Java and Solaris hasn't thrilled me (I personally haven't really found Java all that interesting), and I prefer to use Linux, though their recent Open Solaris project does look interesting. Maybe if they'd focused more on hardware they wouldn't have needed to use the Opterons in as a large a role as they have. The Opteron (an AMD64 in general) is a nice architecture, getting the benefits of really wide data paths and decent amounts of cache, but is still stuck with not many GPRs and that pesky x86 compatibility. Being able to run old software natively instead of through some kludge of a compatibility layer (Itanium) is a Good Thing (tm) when it comes to getting people to move to your hardware, however, I hope AMD has the decency to kill of x86 in a couple years, once 'everybody' has made the switch.
I'm looking forward to seeing this new SPARC in the real world, to see how it stacks up against other CPUs.
as there are a lot of other languages out there that have occupied my interest. However, from my experience with Java, it would seem that Ruby on Rails is a really nice framework. I've recently begun working with Python and Zope, and am interested, personally, in how they compare, too.
just gotta ask, what on God's green earth does this accomplish? (or God's black space, since it is in orbit.) Are they planning on breeding pigs in space now? (And do they need permission from the Henson if they do?)
Compare that to hardware, a physical item we can hold. Replicating a keyboard, GPU, car, etc is remarkably difficult. The assumption is that anyone can make changes to it if they want. While this works in the software realm, it doesn't carry over to hardware. I don't have a foundry in my basement (though I wouldn't put it past some /.ers) which I could use to pour my own engine. I don't have a chip fab in my garage to make my own chips, so even if I discovered problems, or wanted to make changes, I couldn't do it.
The closest thing to open-source in hardware that I can think of are standardized buses, where 'anybody' can make a PCI slot, for example. I still can't do it because I don't injection-molding machines and a supply of gold contacts, but it's still possible.
Unless Art Lebedev hands the schematics out to anybody who wants them (logitech, microsoft, belkin, etc), the keyboard isn't open-source.
shares of Dole will skyrocket on this.
Seriously, though, I agree. It could make a lot of sense to just split the cost with them, and make sure you're the one running the router.
where is the community WiFi group you're involved with?
Absolutely. Yiddish phrases come in quite handy at times.
Easy, it's flat, and since you launch into the East, if anything goes wrong, it falls in the ocean, not some schlemeil's back yard.
But, for families with more than one box hooked up to the otside world through a router, a big speed boost would be great. The kids can play games, do homework, etc, and still not slow down mom and dad.
one button cell phone work? Or do we get one of those spiffy thumbwheel doohickeys?
here already. I subscribe to InfoWorld, and this article discusses available systems from IBM using the dual-core Power5.
In the case of municipal WiFi, there are a huge number of public or semi-public hotspots all over major cities. The local governments would have to be offering a really good deal to make this beneficial to everyone. And if this is really a government service, though, one presumes it would be paid for via taxes of some kind. It would be better if the city got involved in helping private companies find places to put access points, perhaps providing some measure of physical security to those locations, for a fixed amount per location per month (let's say it's $3 per AP per month with a minimum of 1000 APs to cover a decent area). The company could then use some kind of authentication mechanism to make sure people connecting had paid for its service (maybe $25/mo).
The university I attend is modifying its wireless network to broadcast two seperate SSIDs - one that authenicated users (ie students, staff, faculty) can use (and is firewalled, etc) and a second that is wide open for anyone to use, but has no security whatsoever. Non-authenticated users could use a lower speed, and unsecured, version of the network (throttled back to a max of say 802.11b), while the paying subscribers would be able to use the higher available bandwidth (802.11a/g). This would allow people in lower income areas to still use the internet, but people who wanted more speed could pay for it.
Of course, with the new precedent set in Tampa Bay FL, how would municipalities actually be able to act on people using the network for illegal activity? (I personally think that it's the user's responsibility to not do anything illegal, but heaven help you if you believe in personal responsibility in America.)
Such muni WiFi projects could also impact other types of internet subscriptions (especially dial-up), and might be viewed as very anti-competitive to local, traditional ISPs.
was still using versions that old. I've been on 6 and/or 7 (depending on work/home) since they came out and haven't seen the problems mentioned.
A buddy of mine runs a virus removal site, and has a tool to remove Aurora specifically: Aurorafix.
I personally prefer internet radio for most of listening. With the students' iTunes collections shared, it's like having a completely on-demand internet radio, that almost never suffers bottlenecks.
We're also pretty good about keeping after virii, and get most machines patched within a couple days of a new breakout (part of this is by semi-enforcing XP for PC users).
This must be the week for robot stories (the $800 swarming robot).
What is a Do Not Resuscitate plot map?
Just think, SpamAssassin on a cluster of Crays.
You can't own a bleeding WORD!
From working in a manufacturing environment, going to school, working other odd jobs before getting into IT, my skin's plenty thick enough. I just don't need to cuss to get my point across.
I personally supported almost nothing the previous president did, but I still respected him for being President of the United States.
Also note that the justices appointed don't always carry otu the 'wishes' of the appointer. President Ford, a fairly conservative leader, managed to get one of the more liberal judges appointed.
What we really need is to get judges who stop trying to legislate from the bench, and return to applying law to the case, not writing law for a case.
It's too bad you couldn't have been there, then, to see it. And a shame you have to cuss me out because you didn't have the same experience. The parts weren't broken, as they worked fine under Linux, I've installed every version of windows from 3.1 to XP and NT4 (sorry, never played with 3.51) many times, both on personal machines, and doing computer tech work.
So, maybe ours is the only one that can support life? I personally think that life in some form could exist outside our own planet, but the more stories like that pop up, the less likely it seems.