Basing their code on 2.2 would mean it was outdated before it was of any use - afaik 2.4 has big extra support for SMP, which is essential for their pre-emptive solution.
It's not as though 2.4's contents are unknown, they have probably been working with 2.3 builds all the way through. they mention they have been in contact with linus torvalds, i'm sure that for something this big he would have provided them with as much information about 2.4 as soon as possible.
Integration into 2.5 makes sense, not 2.6, so this can be tested and refined within the full linux kernel development environment, and then subsequently released into 2.6 as part of the full stable kernel.
i really look forward to this, this is _good_ corporate involvement with useful goals.
My company is in exactly that situation at the moment. it's working reasonably well. it could be a total disaster, so here a few pointers:
a) MAINTAIN CONTACT. i can't stress that highly enough. MAINTAIN CONTACT. constantly. daily, if possible. it will make them, and you, feel less detached and keep the goals focused.
b) get everyone on an Instant Message sort of thing. (ICQ/AIM/MSM etc) this way everyone can talk easily, and news will travel quickly. it's easy to just say hi, that way.
c) ensure they have an office, or contact of some sort in your city, who is linked very closely with the programmers. someone you can have meetings with, and convey things that don't work over phone lines or ICQ. also, that situation is more condusive for getting the programmers over to meet you and work with you.
those are the most important points. make sure you feel they are a part of the system, that they feel they are too. the situation can work as long as you can project manage from a distance and they have some self-discipline. one thing that may help is to get one or two of their lead developers to work with you for a week or so, so they get into the rhythm of your project, then they can go back and lead the project much more accurately, as they'll feel more part of it.
also, bear in mind that programmers from "other countries" write code differently. not necessarily due to the language barrier, causing possibly incomprehensible comments, but coding styles actually vary from country to country too. having learned to paogram in one country and moved to another, and worked with people in 2 other countries extensively, i have noticed many little quirks and different ways of going about the same task. the point is here that the resultant code may be difficult to maintain, or at least to get in to to begin with, compared to others.
it will never be perfect integration, but a good solution will make you feel like you're working with someone in the next building, rather than the next country. good luck!
I'm a security freak, and I'd love to run OpenBSD... but I *need* SMP support and applications to run on top of it.
SMP support is available for sure on FreeBSD, you might want to check out this link to the FreeBSD hardrware FAQ to read more, i don't know if FreeBSD is an option for you?
The question is, how smooth is the transition from FreeBSD ports to OpenBSD ports?
In my experience, very simple, i haven't had any trouble at all. But anyway, this new ports proposal would unify the lot and make it even simpler:)
a point to note if you want to try this, or anything else, is that all your settings on your palm will get wiped out - you can see this by comparing the "before" and "after" pictures on the kaizo site - the addressbook has dropped from 2k to 1k, presumably an empty minimum size.
just bear in mind that not *everything* gets backed up in a hotsync. but apart from that, happy hacking!
It isn't pretty. All of the Windows solutions beat all of the linux solutions, inlcuding gcj.
Java may be adequate on linux, but I really don't know how you could conclude that it "rocks".
The article actually concludes with this very point, in fact, something along the lines of "The Linux JVM is almost as fast as its Win32 counterpart".
What's impressive for the Linux side is how far it's progressed lately - support for 1.3 will help an awful lot. The main cause for difference in speed is the amount of time Java has been available and the amount of time spent improving it on each platform - years for Win32, almost none so far for Linux.
I don't quite get the "rocks" part myself either, but it's a definite improvement:)
Disclaimer - there is no detail about contact procedure for amending the Linux Myth Dispeller document, so i'm posting it here. the author's email address is included, but the implication is that this is a far more far-reaching project than one man's quick hack, so i figured i'd put it up here, both for discussion and information.
In section 4.4, talking about the relative hard drive merits of the differing OSes, Visual C++ is quoted as taking somewhere around "100 Megs". Installing it off of Microsoft Visual Studio 6 Enterprise Edition last week, it takes around 330 Megabytes. Yes, just for MSVC++. J++ had a cd all of its own, i didnt even dare go there.
That may not even be the worst offender, though. Symantec Cafe for Java (Database Edition) occupies around 580M on my harddrive, and i think it was just a typical installation.
I'm working on a project right now adapting a bespoke solution into a more modular and global system. nothign unusual you might think, except for the context.
the original program was written by a collection of serbian programmers, and was not intended at the time to be maintained by anyone else. so it is a collection of hacks, with little documentation, but the most impressive thing is the variable names - these are the only solid connection to the (natural) language, and as such are a headache to track and work out:)
i have seen an attempt to port a language into italian (C, i think it was), so you'd end up with something like:
se (var == Vero){
func1();
} senno {
func2();
}
(an if - else, with Vero being italian for True)
i dont think logic works too differently in other languages.:)
All this convergence would lead to what I'll refer to here as The Perfect Gadget. This would be something that:
a) does everything you want
b) allows you to do everything you want everywhere you are.
for a), it has to have lots in it. for b), it has to be portable. preferably very small and unobtrusive. this has been becoming a reality for the last 20 years, as the technology gets smaller and smaller. articles even in slashdot about stuff like the 5 cubic inch PC show the technology is getting there. the "PC on a chip" solutions starting to become reality show even more promise.
but what do you see elsewhere in the portable market? bigger screens, full-size keyboards... the problem is that as humans, we are quite oafish with our big pudgy fingers, and eyes unable to focus on something smaller than say 0.2mm across:) so the way we interface with technology (input through the hands, output into our eyes) can't shrink any further than it has already.
the alternative, and the solution, is in a change
of interface. voice recognition and grammatical parsing, hologram projection "screens" would be a great start.
"Computer, take a photo of this building."
"Computer, show me the map of this city."
"Go right. Stop. Enhance 57, 19. Give me a hard copy right there."
(sorry, couldn't resist)
"Email Bill and tell him I accept his business proposal".
This has to be the direction things are going to take, some sort of wearable technology using human-to-human interaction styles (speech, body movement, etc), which essentially eliminates interface "devices", and hence our clumisness with them.
Fross
Wasn't this in the original Doom release?
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I seem to recall the original Doom shareware release (v1.0*) had a feature whereby you could run it on a network, using three machines as your own. each processor would drive one screen, and one would be center, one left, one right, etc, which you set up on the command line.
this would be a better solution than the multi-monitor one, as:
a) you have to have many video cards, using up lots of slots and hence making the machine useless for anything else.
b) it runs at very, very low res.
if you could play quake/unreal/strip-frag-poker 2000 on multiple machines that way, you could have each running at their max resolution, have your slower/lo-res machines doing your peripheral vision etc;)
Intel is out of this market - when was the last time they made a socket 7 processor? Pentium I. Their only viable processor for laptops is the Celeron, due to the PII/PIII large power consumption (even the low power models)
the battle for laptop/notebook processors is now between AMD, with its range of low-power processors, and Transmeta, with the Crusoe.
jeesh... does anyone actually like the new cases? looks like marketing approved some bad-designer's "1950's vision of the future" because they were told it was good. ugly and non-ergonomic.
as for screen real-estate... they should concentrate on putting more buttons onto the screen, this way:
a) the buttons can be redefined according to the context (what app, etc you're in) b) the buttons can be removed altogether if the app you're in doesn't need them, freeing up more screen space
a good place for some proper buttons would be on the side of the Palm, where your index finger and thumb lay when you hold it in the palm of your hand - these could be used as Ok/Cancel, Yes/No, Forward/Back buttons depending on the application.
It seems instead of actually improving the interface, they just want to put it in different coloured boxes.
I see they also haven't included Springboard module support, the expandability that made the Visor so great. If more companies use it, it would be a fantastic standard to upgrade PDAs by. But no, profits come before usefulness.
this is something i was always wondering might happen - a product which is released both on Windows (and/or mac), and Linux. in particular, in one case free, and in the other, not.
i can see windows users sitting there going "hey, i paid $lots for Corel Suite, why are Linux users getting it for free?". essentially, they are discriminating on the grounds of operating system. Imagine if it was like that the other way round, a software product you wanted to use that was free on a platform you didn't like, but you had to pay to use it on your platform of choice?
i am all for corel going in and giving the gimp some good competition - and even beating macromedia and adobe and others to the OS - this can only bring better products through competition. but the cross-platform payment issue does raise this interesting question. where does it go from here? does microsoft sue corel because they're discriminating against windows?
to get an idea of the scale of this, the whole SETI@Home project is generating about 8 TeraFLOPS. This thing tops that by about 50%. So it could process about 500000 SETI units per day. or just under six *per second*.
Keywords: Quake 3, Kernel compilation, Beowulf, Toy Story 3 in realtime?:)
This is indeed a parody, as is evident by the entries on the page - not being awake enough to translate the whole lot, suffice to say the various main links down the page that usually link to other parts of yahoo, are quite different, very ironic, and link to different sites. it is pretty obvious to a frenchspeaker, on viewing the contents of the page, that this is not a serious yahoo page.
though i think this sort of thing is protected by the laws on parody, that's not something i'm entirely clear on, nor is that the point of this post.
a typical example of this humour is in this little section at the bottom of the site:
pssst, ce site est une expérience pour voir combien de temps mettrait Yahoo!, à se prévaloir de ses droits un peu comme d'autres l'ont fait avant elle. Résultat: de la mise en ligne originelle (3 novembre 1999) à la mise en demeure (12 janvier 2000), il s'est écoulé 70 jours. Bravo!
which translates to:
hey, this site is a test to see how long it takes Yahoo! to exercise its rights (in an ironic way, i presume), much as other have done before it. The result: from the beginning (3rd november 1999) to its demise 912 january 2000) it (expletive deleted) 70 days. Well done!
Codewarrior will not killed off. It's one of the leading development environments for Mac's. Therefore Motorola has a vested interest in keeping it going becuase they make Apple's chips.
Once the realignment is complete, Metroworks will probably pick up the projects that were put on hold. If they had not recognized the value of linux tools, they would not have started the project in the first place.
as you stated, metroworks started the codewarrior for linux project because they recognize the value in it.
however, motorola, being the manufacturer of chips for macs, will place far more emphasis on getting codewarrior for OS X out. and as a result, other projects will suffer. as codewarrior for linux has already. i think it is necessary to hear the outcry from the linux community, to realise there is an audience there, who want to the product, badly.
Note that Motorola Computer Group was one of the first people to sign on for embedded linux. I would not be surprised if MCG has already started apply intra-corporate pressure to have the linux codewarrior project continued.
lets hope so! linux has no better option, for a large-scale IDE, which is really necessary for large development, multi-developer projects in the commercial world. codewarrior being shelved would not only be a pity in itself but be a thorn in the side of people wanting to use linux as a development platform, hence probably a decline in commercially-created software for it.
as much as we may like to think so, gcc and other cli environments don't cut it very far in the commercial development world. we need codewarrior, and products like it.
well, rummaging through the forums didn't provide too much of relevance, but that's what forums are like;)
though the printing press won the award, i wouldn't have said it had the impact it could (and did) have immediately, as much knowledge and its dissemination was still controlled by few sources (such as the catholic church) - no open sourcing until the 17th-18th centuries:)
i was surprised to see none of what i would consider the greatest technological inventions of our millenium got any considerable votage, namely:
the combustion engine. for obvious reasons.
the integrated circuit. for allowing the crunching down of technology into such a small space as to make computers, small electronic circuits and essentially every appliance we use today from microwaves to dishwashers to toasters and water meters, a possibility. and last but definitely not least, and probably the top of all:
the toilet. the invention of the u-bend allowed for an amazing increase in santitation in the home, leading to greater quality of life for all concerned. look at countries that don't have a sewage disposal system comparable to the western world, and the impact it has in terms of disease and pollution. this simple device put paid to all that.
but all round, it is amazing to think how far we have come as a race in a thousand years. i think that calls for a drink! ooh! fermentation! damn, that was invented over a thousand years ago, wasn't it... *grin*
what is becoming increasingly obvious is the sheer difference in standpoints here - the complete openness of free speech, responsibility with the individual (or those responsible for him/her), and those who consider the internet a place where perverts prey on the innocent, and people indulge their twisted obsessions...
not to get into a rant about the former being a more "real-world" approach, as people are subjected to whatever they want on a day to day basis, and are free to make their own choices, and the latter being mostly a position of ignorance... this isn't what this post is about. so i'll stop that here:)
the point is, these opinions, valid or not, are widely held and in direct opposition to one another. the deciding factor has to be an independant body, one with no ties, no votes to win or software to sell, who can come act both as a resource for information, and arbiter of guidelines.
i do agree, opensource is the only way to go on this, the whole process has to be scrutinised, questioned and accept input from people at every stage, if there is going to be a global (or even national) consensus on it.
what we need to see an end of is people jumping on the bandwagon of pretending to protect the rights of children in order to forward their own agendas. if they were better parents/social service providers/etc, they would not have to shift their responsibilities onto sledgehammer-approach software.
temporary/contract workers are usually brought in as a short-term solution to a project, or to beef up an existing workforce, again in the short term. they do not get any of the benefits permanent employees get (such as, for instance, health insurance, national insurance contributions (a uk thing), or other bonuses). however, their rates are usually much higher than for the same position in a permanent role - were they to work a 40 hour week, 50 weeks a year, they'd make a fortune.
on the other hand as they're usually brought in at a crunch time during a project, have to perform immediately (no sitting around on the job learning new skills!) work long hours, and otherwise be a "super-employee". that's the theory, anyway, there are plenty who underperform, i'm sure. if there is no work, they don't get paid, as simple as that. to a company, they are a luxury, rather than a necessary resource, and get treated as such.
the contract and permanent roles are distinct, and serve different purposes. they are both useful in their own right, and there is a strong argument for maintaining them that way.
where the problem lies is the area where these roles cross, with companies trying to cajole the "best of both worlds" from the definitions, at the worker's expense. a contractor should not be working at the same role in the same company for an extended period of time - in the case that it happens, he/she should be converted to a permanent employee, with all the benefits. the onus at the moment is on the companies to do this, but of course, it is in their interest not to.
what's needed here is an expanded, up-to-date review of the situation from governments, to take in the (relatively new, at least on this scale) IT contract market, and amend the law to provide better protection for both the workers, and the companies. fair is fair.
The pages are not specific about the shipping, as has been pointed out, however Dell has been shipping Linux as an OS option for a few months (as reported on Slashdot and elsewhere) along with Compaq, and now IBM, it seems, on their desktop systems. I think it is only a matter of time for them to complete their own testing to ship a version (perhaps tweaked? laptops are strange beasts) of Linux, fully supported, on their laptop systems. hurrah! Fross
If you want that transparent look, it'd be worth looking for the Special Edition of the Palm IIIe, which has a transparent case! same spec as the regular IIIe, and you can likely find a good deal on it now the V is getting widespread.
You can find a link to it on Palm Central here, or another link with a better picture here.
I wonder about the memory sizes... people are going on about the IIIx and the Vx as essential as they have 4M and 8M ram respectively, as opposed to the basic III and V which only have 2M... personally i have a IIIx, have put a ton of programs on there, use almost all its features, and have put 600K worth of books (about 5 books)on it with CSpotRun, and have still only used just over 1M on it! Has anyone actually filled up a IIIx or Vx with stuff?
Firstly, the size. As many people have pointed out, the 288Mb unit uses parity, thus using a ninth parity bit per byte. So the effective size is 256M. Of course, Samsung will try to push it as a 288M chip to seem like it's bigger than 256M... stick 8 of them together and you could get a 512M DIMM. Nice.
As for the speed, the stated bandwidth is 800Mb/s *on each pin*. Can someone clarify what this means? Does that mean total bandwidth is about 800M * 130? or what?
My last question regards the frequency - how does this chip relate to the 200Mhz/400Mhz or higher rambuses we're seeing? Would the Athlon have better performance than the PIII as a result?
George is still working on each of the already released eps to "perfect" them.
I hope that doesn't translate as "insert Jar Jar Binks into the storyline"
some of us actually liked them the way they were. Am i the only one who thought that the "special editions" were... not so much bad, as a pointless exercise. The additions gave little either atmospherically or structurally, and weren't as far ahead technically from the current competition as star wars was back when it was first released.
i say release them, fans want them for what they are. if lucas wants to do a super-duper-300-dvd set in 2005, let him. we'll probably buy that too.
seriously, this doesn't seem to be "david bowie opens a bank", but "some bank hires david bowie's image to promote a new online bank". personally, i wouldn't trust the former, as he doesn't have the expertise in the banking field. still, it's a marketing coup.
wonder who'll follow in a similar vein... Sting's organic foods? Keith Richards' drug emporium? or... wait for it wait for it...
Slashdot Mirror
...for all your suggestions. got a few ideas to chase up now. :)
fross
Basing their code on 2.2 would mean it was outdated before it was of any use - afaik 2.4 has big extra support for SMP, which is essential for their pre-emptive solution.
It's not as though 2.4's contents are unknown, they have probably been working with 2.3 builds all the way through. they mention they have been in contact with linus torvalds, i'm sure that for something this big he would have provided them with as much information about 2.4 as soon as possible.
Integration into 2.5 makes sense, not 2.6, so this can be tested and refined within the full linux kernel development environment, and then subsequently released into 2.6 as part of the full stable kernel.
i really look forward to this, this is _good_ corporate involvement with useful goals.
fross
My company is in exactly that situation at the moment. it's working reasonably well. it could be a total disaster, so here a few pointers:
a) MAINTAIN CONTACT. i can't stress that highly enough. MAINTAIN CONTACT. constantly. daily, if possible. it will make them, and you, feel less detached and keep the goals focused.
b) get everyone on an Instant Message sort of thing. (ICQ/AIM/MSM etc) this way everyone can talk easily, and news will travel quickly. it's easy to just say hi, that way.
c) ensure they have an office, or contact of some sort in your city, who is linked very closely with the programmers. someone you can have meetings with, and convey things that don't work over phone lines or ICQ. also, that situation is more condusive for getting the programmers over to meet you and work with you.
those are the most important points. make sure you feel they are a part of the system, that they feel they are too. the situation can work as long as you can project manage from a distance and they have some self-discipline. one thing that may help is to get one or two of their lead developers to work with you for a week or so, so they get into the rhythm of your project, then they can go back and lead the project much more accurately, as they'll feel more part of it.
also, bear in mind that programmers from "other countries" write code differently. not necessarily due to the language barrier, causing possibly incomprehensible comments, but coding styles actually vary from country to country too. having learned to paogram in one country and moved to another, and worked with people in 2 other countries extensively, i have noticed many little quirks and different ways of going about the same task. the point is here that the resultant code may be difficult to maintain, or at least to get in to to begin with, compared to others.
it will never be perfect integration, but a good solution will make you feel like you're working with someone in the next building, rather than the next country. good luck!
fross
I'm a security freak, and I'd love to run OpenBSD... but I *need* SMP support and applications to run on top of it.
:)
SMP support is available for sure on FreeBSD, you might want to check out this link to the FreeBSD hardrware FAQ to read more, i don't know if FreeBSD is an option for you?
The question is, how smooth is the transition from FreeBSD ports to OpenBSD ports?
In my experience, very simple, i haven't had any trouble at all. But anyway, this new ports proposal would unify the lot and make it even simpler
Fross
a point to note if you want to try this, or anything else, is that all your settings on your palm will get wiped out - you can see this by comparing the "before" and "after" pictures on the kaizo site - the addressbook has dropped from 2k to 1k, presumably an empty minimum size.
just bear in mind that not *everything* gets backed up in a hotsync. but apart from that, happy hacking!
fross
It isn't pretty. All of the Windows solutions beat all of the linux solutions, inlcuding gcj.
:)
Java may be adequate on linux, but I really don't know how you could conclude that it "rocks".
The article actually concludes with this very point, in fact, something along the lines of "The Linux JVM is almost as fast as its Win32 counterpart".
What's impressive for the Linux side is how far it's progressed lately - support for 1.3 will help an awful lot. The main cause for difference in speed is the amount of time Java has been available and the amount of time spent improving it on each platform - years for Win32, almost none so far for Linux.
I don't quite get the "rocks" part myself either, but it's a definite improvement
Fross
Disclaimer - there is no detail about contact procedure for amending the Linux Myth Dispeller document, so i'm posting it here. the author's email address is included, but the implication is that this is a far more far-reaching project than one man's quick hack, so i figured i'd put it up here, both for discussion and information.
In section 4.4, talking about the relative hard drive merits of the differing OSes, Visual C++ is quoted as taking somewhere around "100 Megs". Installing it off of Microsoft Visual Studio 6 Enterprise Edition last week, it takes around 330 Megabytes. Yes, just for MSVC++. J++ had a cd all of its own, i didnt even dare go there.
That may not even be the worst offender, though. Symantec Cafe for Java (Database Edition) occupies around 580M on my harddrive, and i think it was just a typical installation.
Fross
I'm working on a project right now adapting a bespoke solution into a more modular and global system. nothign unusual you might think, except for the context.
:)
:)
the original program was written by a collection of serbian programmers, and was not intended at the time to be maintained by anyone else. so it is a collection of hacks, with little documentation, but the most impressive thing is the variable names - these are the only solid connection to the (natural) language, and as such are a headache to track and work out
i have seen an attempt to port a language into italian (C, i think it was), so you'd end up with something like:
se (var == Vero){
func1();
} senno {
func2();
}
(an if - else, with Vero being italian for True)
i dont think logic works too differently in other languages.
david
All this convergence would lead to what I'll refer to here as The Perfect Gadget. This would be something that:
:) so the way we interface with technology (input through the hands, output into our eyes) can't shrink any further than it has already.
a) does everything you want
b) allows you to do everything you want everywhere you are.
for a), it has to have lots in it. for b), it has to be portable. preferably very small and unobtrusive. this has been becoming a reality for the last 20 years, as the technology gets smaller and smaller. articles even in slashdot about stuff like the 5 cubic inch PC show the technology is getting there. the "PC on a chip" solutions starting to become reality show even more promise.
but what do you see elsewhere in the portable market? bigger screens, full-size keyboards... the problem is that as humans, we are quite oafish with our big pudgy fingers, and eyes unable to focus on something smaller than say 0.2mm across
the alternative, and the solution, is in a change
of interface. voice recognition and grammatical parsing, hologram projection "screens" would be a great start.
"Computer, take a photo of this building."
"Computer, show me the map of this city."
"Go right. Stop. Enhance 57, 19. Give me a hard copy right there."
(sorry, couldn't resist)
"Email Bill and tell him I accept his business proposal".
This has to be the direction things are going to take, some sort of wearable technology using human-to-human interaction styles (speech, body movement, etc), which essentially eliminates interface "devices", and hence our clumisness with them.
Fross
I seem to recall the original Doom shareware release (v1.0*) had a feature whereby you could run it on a network, using three machines as your own. each processor would drive one screen, and one would be center, one left, one right, etc, which you set up on the command line.
;)
this would be a better solution than the multi-monitor one, as:
a) you have to have many video cards, using up lots of slots and hence making the machine useless for anything else.
b) it runs at very, very low res.
if you could play quake/unreal/strip-frag-poker 2000 on multiple machines that way, you could have each running at their max resolution, have your slower/lo-res machines doing your peripheral vision etc
fross
Intel is out of this market - when was the last time they made a socket 7 processor? Pentium I. Their only viable processor for laptops is the Celeron, due to the PII/PIII large power consumption (even the low power models)
the battle for laptop/notebook processors is now between AMD, with its range of low-power processors, and Transmeta, with the Crusoe.
fross
jeesh... does anyone actually like the new cases? looks like marketing approved some bad-designer's "1950's vision of the future" because they were told it was good. ugly and non-ergonomic.
as for screen real-estate... they should concentrate on putting more buttons onto the screen, this way:
a) the buttons can be redefined according to the context (what app, etc you're in)
b) the buttons can be removed altogether if the app you're in doesn't need them, freeing up more screen space
a good place for some proper buttons would be on the side of the Palm, where your index finger and thumb lay when you hold it in the palm of your hand - these could be used as Ok/Cancel, Yes/No, Forward/Back buttons depending on the application.
It seems instead of actually improving the interface, they just want to put it in different coloured boxes.
I see they also haven't included Springboard module support, the expandability that made the Visor so great. If more companies use it, it would be a fantastic standard to upgrade PDAs by. But no, profits come before usefulness.
sad.
this is something i was always wondering might happen - a product which is released both on Windows (and/or mac), and Linux. in particular, in one case free, and in the other, not.
i can see windows users sitting there going "hey, i paid $lots for Corel Suite, why are Linux users getting it for free?". essentially, they are discriminating on the grounds of operating system. Imagine if it was like that the other way round, a software product you wanted to use that was free on a platform you didn't like, but you had to pay to use it on your platform of choice?
i am all for corel going in and giving the gimp some good competition - and even beating macromedia and adobe and others to the OS - this can only bring better products through competition. but the cross-platform payment issue does raise this interesting question. where does it go from here? does microsoft sue corel because they're discriminating against windows?
fross
to get an idea of the scale of this, the whole SETI@Home project is generating about 8 TeraFLOPS. This thing tops that by about 50%. So it could process about 500000 SETI units per day. or just under six *per second*.
:)
Keywords: Quake 3, Kernel compilation, Beowulf, Toy Story 3 in realtime?
Fross
Looking at the product spec for the IIIxe, available here, it has 2M of Flash ROM as well as its 8M of regular RAM.
;)
At only $20 more than a IIIx, this seems a great choice for those who aren't such yuppie managers that they need the V.
Fross
This is indeed a parody, as is evident by the entries on the page - not being awake enough to translate the whole lot, suffice to say the various main links down the page that usually link to other parts of yahoo, are quite different, very ironic, and link to different sites. it is pretty obvious to a frenchspeaker, on viewing the contents of the page, that this is not a serious yahoo page.
though i think this sort of thing is protected by the laws on parody, that's not something i'm entirely clear on, nor is that the point of this post.
a typical example of this humour is in this little section at the bottom of the site:
pssst, ce site est une expérience
pour voir combien de temps mettrait Yahoo!, à se prévaloir de ses droits
un peu comme d'autres l'ont fait avant elle.
Résultat: de la mise en ligne originelle (3 novembre 1999) à la mise en demeure (12 janvier 2000), il s'est écoulé 70 jours. Bravo!
which translates to:
hey, this site is a test to see how long it takes Yahoo! to exercise its rights (in an ironic way, i presume), much as other have done before it. The result: from the beginning (3rd november 1999) to its demise 912 january 2000) it (expletive deleted) 70 days. Well done!
hope that helps
Fross
Codewarrior will not killed off. It's one of the leading development environments for Mac's. Therefore Motorola has a vested interest in keeping it going becuase they make Apple's chips.
Once the realignment is complete, Metroworks will probably pick up the projects that were put on hold. If they had not recognized the value of linux tools, they would not have started the project in the first place.
as you stated, metroworks started the codewarrior for linux project because they recognize the value in it.
however, motorola, being the manufacturer of chips for macs, will place far more emphasis on getting codewarrior for OS X out. and as a result, other projects will suffer. as codewarrior for linux has already. i think it is necessary to hear the outcry from the linux community, to realise there is an audience there, who want to the product, badly.
Note that Motorola Computer Group was one of the first people to sign on for embedded linux. I would not be surprised if MCG has already started apply intra-corporate pressure to have the linux codewarrior project continued.
lets hope so! linux has no better option, for a large-scale IDE, which is really necessary for large development, multi-developer projects in the commercial world. codewarrior being shelved would not only be a pity in itself but be a thorn in the side of people wanting to use linux as a development platform, hence probably a decline in commercially-created software for it.
as much as we may like to think so, gcc and other cli environments don't cut it very far in the commercial development world. we need codewarrior, and products like it.
Fross
though the printing press won the award, i wouldn't have said it had the impact it could (and did) have immediately, as much knowledge and its dissemination was still controlled by few sources (such as the catholic church) - no open sourcing until the 17th-18th centuries
i was surprised to see none of what i would consider the greatest technological inventions of our millenium got any considerable votage, namely:
the combustion engine. for obvious reasons.
the integrated circuit. for allowing the crunching down of technology into such a small space as to make computers, small electronic circuits and essentially every appliance we use today from microwaves to dishwashers to toasters and water meters, a possibility.
and last but definitely not least, and probably the top of all:
the toilet. the invention of the u-bend allowed for an amazing increase in santitation in the home, leading to greater quality of life for all concerned. look at countries that don't have a sewage disposal system comparable to the western world, and the impact it has in terms of disease and pollution. this simple device put paid to all that.
but all round, it is amazing to think how far we have come as a race in a thousand years. i think that calls for a drink! ooh! fermentation! damn, that was invented over a thousand years ago, wasn't it... *grin*
Fross
what is becoming increasingly obvious is the sheer difference in standpoints here - the complete openness of free speech, responsibility with the individual (or those responsible for him/her), and those who consider the internet a place where perverts prey on the innocent, and people indulge their twisted obsessions...
:)
not to get into a rant about the former being a more "real-world" approach, as people are subjected to whatever they want on a day to day basis, and are free to make their own choices, and the latter being mostly a position of ignorance... this isn't what this post is about. so i'll stop that here
the point is, these opinions, valid or not, are widely held and in direct opposition to one another. the deciding factor has to be an independant body, one with no ties, no votes to win or software to sell, who can come act both as a resource for information, and arbiter of guidelines.
i do agree, opensource is the only way to go on this, the whole process has to be scrutinised, questioned and accept input from people at every stage, if there is going to be a global (or even national) consensus on it.
what we need to see an end of is people jumping on the bandwagon of pretending to protect the rights of children in order to forward their own agendas. if they were better parents/social service providers/etc, they would not have to shift their responsibilities onto sledgehammer-approach software.
Fross
temporary/contract workers are usually brought in as a short-term solution to a project, or to beef up an existing workforce, again in the short term. they do not get any of the benefits permanent employees get (such as, for instance, health insurance, national insurance contributions (a uk thing), or other bonuses). however, their rates are usually much higher than for the same position in a permanent role - were they to work a 40 hour week, 50 weeks a year, they'd make a fortune.
on the other hand as they're usually brought in at a crunch time during a project, have to perform immediately (no sitting around on the job learning new skills!) work long hours, and otherwise be a "super-employee". that's the theory, anyway, there are plenty who underperform, i'm sure. if there is no work, they don't get paid, as simple as that. to a company, they are a luxury, rather than a necessary resource, and get treated as such.
the contract and permanent roles are distinct, and serve different purposes. they are both useful in their own right, and there is a strong argument for maintaining them that way.
where the problem lies is the area where these roles cross, with companies trying to cajole the "best of both worlds" from the definitions, at the worker's expense. a contractor should not be working at the same role in the same company for an extended period of time - in the case that it happens, he/she should be converted to a permanent employee, with all the benefits. the onus at the moment is on the companies to do this, but of course, it is in their interest not to.
what's needed here is an expanded, up-to-date review of the situation from governments, to take in the (relatively new, at least on this scale) IT contract market, and amend the law to provide better protection for both the workers, and the companies. fair is fair.
Fross
The pages are not specific about the shipping, as has been pointed out, however Dell has been shipping Linux as an OS option for a few months (as reported on Slashdot and elsewhere) along with Compaq, and now IBM, it seems, on their desktop systems. I think it is only a matter of time for them to complete their own testing to ship a version (perhaps tweaked? laptops are strange beasts) of Linux, fully supported, on their laptop systems. hurrah! Fross
If you want that transparent look, it'd be worth looking for the Special Edition of the Palm IIIe, which has a transparent case! same spec as the regular IIIe, and you can likely find a good deal on it now the V is getting widespread.
You can find a link to it on Palm Central here, or another link with a better picture here.
I wonder about the memory sizes... people are going on about the IIIx and the Vx as essential as they have 4M and 8M ram respectively, as opposed to the basic III and V which only have 2M... personally i have a IIIx, have put a ton of programs on there, use almost all its features, and have put 600K worth of books (about 5 books)on it with CSpotRun, and have still only used just over 1M on it! Has anyone actually filled up a IIIx or Vx with stuff?
Fross
Firstly, the size. As many people have pointed out, the 288Mb unit uses parity, thus using a ninth parity bit per byte. So the effective size is 256M. Of course, Samsung will try to push it as a 288M chip to seem like it's bigger than 256M... stick 8 of them together and you could get a 512M DIMM. Nice.
As for the speed, the stated bandwidth is 800Mb/s *on each pin*. Can someone clarify what this means? Does that mean total bandwidth is about 800M * 130? or what?
My last question regards the frequency - how does this chip relate to the 200Mhz/400Mhz or higher rambuses we're seeing? Would the Athlon have better performance than the PIII as a result?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Fross
George is still working on each of the already released eps to "perfect" them.
I hope that doesn't translate as "insert Jar Jar Binks into the storyline"
some of us actually liked them the way they were. Am i the only one who thought that the "special editions" were... not so much bad, as a pointless exercise. The additions gave little either atmospherically or structurally, and weren't as far ahead technically from the current competition as star wars was back when it was first released.
i say release them, fans want them for what they are. if lucas wants to do a super-duper-300-dvd set in 2005, let him. we'll probably buy that too.
Fross
...is retinal scanning for identification :)
:)
:)
seriously, this doesn't seem to be "david bowie opens a bank", but "some bank hires david bowie's image to promote a new online bank". personally, i wouldn't trust the former, as he doesn't have the expertise in the banking field. still, it's a marketing coup.
wonder who'll follow in a similar vein... Sting's organic foods? Keith Richards' drug emporium? or... wait for it wait for it...
George Michael's sperm bank
Fross