As a guy who just had his DLP burn out on him, the rotating mirror array is a BAD design. Any amount of crud/dust in the unit, and crap starts accumulating in the bearings. Sooner or later instability/wobble ends up developing and a cascade effect of degradation destroys your projector. I'd rather go back to the 3LCD monoblock design.:-/
Moving parts in a digital projector? Who's the crackhead who thought that up?
No non-public company is required to publish quarterly reports, or any report at all. It may be in their best interests to do so, but a private company can keep it's financial business all to itself.
Java is not a good high performance language at this point. And, yes, that is a problem with the Java language, not just its implementations.
I contest this point, simply because the same could be said of C++. If C++ were built on top of an interpretive VM, you'd argue that C++ was a poor language? There exist Java -> native machine compilers today that generate binary code similar to what a C++ compiler would do. Java->native compilers are much less sophisticated than the optimizing compilers of Intel or Sun, but are getting better.
Your comment against VM's is valid. Your comment against the language is not, except as perhaps regards the garbage collector. Would you accuse a C++ garbage collecting memory manager of being "not good in high performance computing"? Even there is a moot point, because a smart Native Java implementation could implement smart self-destructing objects without needing garbage collection.
A C compiler will do no inlining of trig functions in a library without source available. A java's version of log10(e) and a C libraries version of log10(e) are very likely similar at an instruction level. A C/C++ compiler that has source available for the log10(e) function might do function inlining in loops for the code, but might not if the execution unit is too large. It's a crapshoot, and completely up to the optimizer.
Note that a Java compiler could also do loop unrolling and inlining optimizations as well. Sophistication of Java compilers is probably not there yet though.:-/
Which is more of a factor of your memory management routines themselves, as opposed to an OS limitation. Virtually no C/C++ library in existance today lets the OS make the memory management decisions for it; it's almost always some sort of memory pooling around the malloc/new library. There's no optimization to be gained here by Java alone.
I was being a bit facetious there. I know American steel is good, it's just cost prohibitive, almost twice what Taiwanese steel costs.
Replacing the steel rotor hubs on my car would cost me $70 a piece with American steel or $40 a piece with an identical part made in Taiwan. Where's the cost? Surely not all labor?
I don't want to revoke Corporations. I just want to take away their rights as Citizens. They are instruments of the Citizenry, not Citizens themselves. We give Corporations too much protection. The corporate shield is a powerful and vital thing. It is also horribly abused.
The purpose of a company is to make money for it's OWNERS, ie. stockholders, not it's execs.
The real injustice in the whole scenario is that I, as a part owner in IBM, have no voice compared to the institutional investors. Corporations are NOT the representative democracy that the U.S. is. There is no corporate Senate to protect the interests of the minority.
But the U.S. shouldn't favor foreign workers if those foreign countries penalize U.S. workers. Fair is fair, after all. That is why I am against the steel tariffs - if American steel is that good, prove it!
While OS/2 had gumption, god bless it, it didn't have the staying power to compete in the market. Developers didn't want to touch it. OS2 didn't help it by making it easier to run windows apps in a more stable environment than on windows itself.
Where Linux differs is that it's posix compatibility and X environment already brought it lots of applications. Cost of entry to developers is low low low. Whether or not IBM does Linux on the Desktop has no negative impact on Linux on the Desktop. Linux will eventually make it there on its own accord. IBM can't ignore this into the ground.
Granted, there's some PR mindshare that some IBM missteps could hurt the overall Linux movement, but truly, as Linux keeps getting better and better, and more reliable, no amount of bad press by corporations like IBM is going to hurt it. It will win on it's virtues.
Your argument has virtue, don't get me wrong. There's concern to be had if you're a true "Linux is the One True OS" type, like I'm starting to be. Ask yourself this: How has the SCO case hurt your ability to use Linux TODAY? FUD and PR are just that to the community. The rest of the world will be convinced by numbers and deeds like what IBM is doing. In a year when IBM sales reps start showing up at offices with SuSE preloaded on laptops with the newest whizbang apps installed, running OOo Impress, PHB mindshare will change.
And we have no choice but to wait and see, and continue supporting our OS and packages of choice.:-)
The space race kept the post-war industrial base employed, rather than shutting down whole industries like post-ww I. Once detente looked like it was working, more crap projects are floated simply to keep your talented industrial base employed. Once you lose engineers and let a decade go by, it's hard to pick up right where you left off and catch up quick.
The military industrial complex doesn't want another WWII, a protracted nasty war.
Except for Boeing and perhaps Hughes, the vast majority of the product those corporations makes goes to the United States and her military allies. They have nothing to worry about from India. In fact, they are poised to receive great windfalls from yet another arms race with the Asian continent. Anti-ship defenses capable of taking out hypersonic cruise missiles will need development. You think the Anti Missile Shield is a boon-doggle...
And like everything in the world, it is best to wipe the glasses of the gunk a little bit. I know a LOT of ponds and rivers in my neighborhood (seat of the Industrial Revolution) that my parents would never swim in, but that are safe enough now to actually eat the fish. Wherever heavy industry pops up, great environmental damage is done. It's the nature of the beast, especially when the laws and enforcement policies to protect nature are not in place to stop it.
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You're arguing with a guy who thinks you FUSE uranium.
Don't waste your time.
As a guy who just had his DLP burn out on him, the rotating mirror array is a BAD design. Any amount of crud/dust in the unit, and crap starts accumulating in the bearings. Sooner or later instability/wobble ends up developing and a cascade effect of degradation destroys your projector. I'd rather go back to the 3LCD monoblock design. :-/
Moving parts in a digital projector? Who's the crackhead who thought that up?
Some of these screens ARE 16x more expensive.... :(
Is first party support from Microsoft at $99/h an affordable option for ordinary users?
No non-public company is required to publish quarterly reports, or any report at all. It may be in their best interests to do so, but a private company can keep it's financial business all to itself.
I contest this point, simply because the same could be said of C++. If C++ were built on top of an interpretive VM, you'd argue that C++ was a poor language? There exist Java -> native machine compilers today that generate binary code similar to what a C++ compiler would do. Java->native compilers are much less sophisticated than the optimizing compilers of Intel or Sun, but are getting better.
Your comment against VM's is valid. Your comment against the language is not, except as perhaps regards the garbage collector. Would you accuse a C++ garbage collecting memory manager of being "not good in high performance computing"? Even there is a moot point, because a smart Native Java implementation could implement smart self-destructing objects without needing garbage collection.
A C compiler will do no inlining of trig functions in a library without source available. A java's version of log10(e) and a C libraries version of log10(e) are very likely similar at an instruction level. A C/C++ compiler that has source available for the log10(e) function might do function inlining in loops for the code, but might not if the execution unit is too large. It's a crapshoot, and completely up to the optimizer.
:-/
Note that a Java compiler could also do loop unrolling and inlining optimizations as well. Sophistication of Java compilers is probably not there yet though.
Which is more of a factor of your memory management routines themselves, as opposed to an OS limitation. Virtually no C/C++ library in existance today lets the OS make the memory management decisions for it; it's almost always some sort of memory pooling around the malloc/new library. There's no optimization to be gained here by Java alone.
Right up until native java compilers make such an exercise moot... java, written in java...
I was being a bit facetious there. I know American steel is good, it's just cost prohibitive, almost twice what Taiwanese steel costs.
:-/
Replacing the steel rotor hubs on my car would cost me $70 a piece with American steel or $40 a piece with an identical part made in Taiwan. Where's the cost? Surely not all labor?
I don't have an answer...
I don't want to revoke Corporations. I just want to take away their rights as Citizens. They are instruments of the Citizenry, not Citizens themselves. We give Corporations too much protection. The corporate shield is a powerful and vital thing. It is also horribly abused.
Keep the condo, get a cheaper car.
Lose the cable and read books.
Damn, that's one expensive phone plan!!!
Some states mandate that "domestic partners" are eligible for health coverage after a certain period of time. Your state may be one of them...
I'm with you sir. I was once in a situation much like your own, rent vs. mortgage... I wish you the best.
Show me (as an American) how I can emigrate to India and help lower the American cost of doing business.
Protectionism is okay when it's a third world country, but not when you're the United States??
The purpose of a company is to make money for it's OWNERS, ie. stockholders, not it's execs.
The real injustice in the whole scenario is that I, as a part owner in IBM, have no voice compared to the institutional investors. Corporations are NOT the representative democracy that the U.S. is. There is no corporate Senate to protect the interests of the minority.
But the U.S. shouldn't favor foreign workers if those foreign countries penalize U.S. workers. Fair is fair, after all. That is why I am against the steel tariffs - if American steel is that good, prove it!
Oh well.
Personally, I'd like all these execs to take a paycut to improve the bottom line.
You have a very narrow definition of profit, then.
While OS/2 had gumption, god bless it, it didn't have the staying power to compete in the market. Developers didn't want to touch it. OS2 didn't help it by making it easier to run windows apps in a more stable environment than on windows itself.
:-)
Where Linux differs is that it's posix compatibility and X environment already brought it lots of applications. Cost of entry to developers is low low low. Whether or not IBM does Linux on the Desktop has no negative impact on Linux on the Desktop. Linux will eventually make it there on its own accord. IBM can't ignore this into the ground.
Granted, there's some PR mindshare that some IBM missteps could hurt the overall Linux movement, but truly, as Linux keeps getting better and better, and more reliable, no amount of bad press by corporations like IBM is going to hurt it. It will win on it's virtues.
Your argument has virtue, don't get me wrong. There's concern to be had if you're a true "Linux is the One True OS" type, like I'm starting to be.
Ask yourself this: How has the SCO case hurt your ability to use Linux TODAY? FUD and PR are just that to the community. The rest of the world will be convinced by numbers and deeds like what IBM is doing. In a year when IBM sales reps start showing up at offices with SuSE preloaded on laptops with the newest whizbang apps installed, running OOo Impress, PHB mindshare will change.
And we have no choice but to wait and see, and continue supporting our OS and packages of choice.
Cheers,
-Chris
Absolutely. If my President looks like a slob, I won't vote for him, because it shows his lack of attention to detail.
999 channels, and STILL nothing on...
That was a "Jury of His Peers". I don't think SCO has such a luxury.
HP is doing a damn fine job of that themselves, they don't need any help...
Most vendors doing JIT delivery pay Net30. As it has been in manufacturing for decades. Have you ever DONE business with WalMart?
The space race kept the post-war industrial base employed, rather than shutting down whole industries like post-ww I. Once detente looked like it was working, more crap projects are floated simply to keep your talented industrial base employed. Once you lose engineers and let a decade go by, it's hard to pick up right where you left off and catch up quick.
The military industrial complex doesn't want another WWII, a protracted nasty war.
Except for Boeing and perhaps Hughes, the vast majority of the product those corporations makes goes to the United States and her military allies. They have nothing to worry about from India. In fact, they are poised to receive great windfalls from yet another arms race with the Asian continent. Anti-ship defenses capable of taking out hypersonic cruise missiles will need development. You think the Anti Missile Shield is a boon-doggle...
And like everything in the world, it is best to wipe the glasses of the gunk a little bit. I know a LOT of ponds and rivers in my neighborhood (seat of the Industrial Revolution) that my parents would never swim in, but that are safe enough now to actually eat the fish. Wherever heavy industry pops up, great environmental damage is done. It's the nature of the beast, especially when the laws and enforcement policies to protect nature are not in place to stop it.