I'm interested to see whether this technology can be tweaked to display slightly different images on narrow angles, which can trick our eyes to believe the flat images are 3-D.
The title of the story is "How Linux Beats Windows in ID Management." Okay, I read the TFA, and all I read was an introduction to LDAP. Where's the comparison that shows "Linux Beats Windows?" The article is not even about linux; it's about LDAP solutions that can be run on *nix systems. For the love of God please please don't run stupid stories like this again.
On a personal account, ubuntu is the first disto that I used that supported my old toshiba laptop's wireless card right out of box. I'm very impressed. The reason why this point is important is because if setting up a wireless card can be moderately difficult for a geek like me, then how is the OS gonna be easy to use for the general public? Ubuntu has a lot of good things like this that improve the subtle but important usability issues. I applaud to ubuntu and hope their user base grow even bigger.
When the policy is going against the natural market force, there's not much the government can do. You can raid the markets and factories that sell and manufacture the illegal material, but the market demand will eventually cause them to revive somewhere else. America's anti-alchohol legislation is a great example of such bad policies. During the 1930's, the law enforcement tried their best to stop selling liquor, but the bootleg movement surpassed the law enforcement and eventually led to the abolishment of the legislation.
The robot needs 24V DC at 10A as stated on the press release. I don't know how the robot is going to roam around...maybe with a 50kg battery pack strapped on the back? It will probably break down from just carrying the battery pack.
What you said is true, but I'd like to say something in defense of this doing. It's not that Chinese don't want to follow the rules, it's simply because the "legal" ones are too expensive for common Chinese people. You talking about selling a $20 movie DVD to someone who makes that much money in a week (even in America I think it's too expensive). The ill-alligned marketing strategy creates a huge demand for illegal CDs and DVDs. It's no surprise that most of the piracy happen in countries where average salary is low.
The article wrote: "Xen doesn't yet support Windows, however."
Wrong, wrong, wrong!
1. Xen is an open standard, so any OS can modify their kernel to run on Xen. It's not a matter of which OS is supported by Xen, it's whether that OS is willing to support Xen.
2. At the early stages of Xen, there was a modified windows XP that can run on Xen. But soon it was withdrawn for licensing concerns. Since the sources of windows XP is not publicly available, nobody can modify it and make it run on Xen.
So looks like Xen is bound to compete with windows in the future. I wonder how fair this competition is, given that MS may never make windows xen-compatible.
This might be off topic, but I disagree with you. Business ethics is itself oxymoron, for there is no dollar value for humanity in a dog-eat-dog capitalistic competition. To me, he's done better than Bush, for at least he didn't spend the money on invading other countries.
Again, RTFA. They admitted the deficiencies of GCC. And you are wrong about gcc favoring x86. Given any generic compiler, it is more likely it will favor RISC (powerpc) architectures than CISC architectures (x86), simply because RISC ISA is designed for compilers from the ground up! Indeed, the author even pointed out that gcc is really bad at SSE2 instructions. GCC is an excellent choice for compiler, being the more widely used compiler and its history.
I read through the whole comparison/review. The article points out that the main factor that MySQL is slow on OS X is how threads are handled in darwin. It's a speculation based on good observations. However, I think that the author should have done a more controlled test to prove his point, such as running yellowdog linux and OS X on identical hardware to compare MySQL performance. Instead, the mahcines that ran linux were opteron and xeon machines, which made it hard to tell whether the hardware or the kernel contributed more to the performance difference.
As fast as Ferrari?
How about some common sense. The motor is said to be directly driving the wheels w/o transmission, and the motor spins at up to 2500 RPM. Suppose the diameter of the wheel is 16in:
2500 (rotation/min) * 60 (min/hour) * 16*pi (inch/rotation) / 63360 (inch/mile) = 119 MPH.
That's the absolute maximum speed with a 16-in wheel. It may accelerate as fast as a Ferrari, but will never run as fast!
The improvement is that the network will be open to any retail content provider, fostering competition, and ultimately reduce your costs. Verizon and Adelphia don't allow this.
If you read the article carefully, Nulty is not planning to monoplize the content providing service. Instead, BT will eventually be providing the public infrastruction only, and consumers will be free to choose from whatever service they want. An analogy to this would be the government building the highway, so that USPS, UPS, Fedex can all compete in the package delivery business. If UPS had built the highway by themselves, they wouldn't have allowed Fedex to use it. And that would be really bad.
It's a nice idea. But once the bounty is awarded, there is no more incentive to actively maintain it from the open source community. Without additional bounty, this project will have to compete on level ground with mySQL and PostgreSQL, where a lot of community interests have been vested.
I don't foresee the widespread of UMD anytime soon (or ever), but PSP also has a memory stick slot and 802.11 wireless. It would be interesting to see a hack that involves loading a linux/BSD kernel from the memory stick, and then play streaming videa/music, or better yet, play games on SMB/NFS mount.
Just for the sake of argument, suppose we created a hybrid monkey with DNA close enough to us humans that allow the possibility of human-monkey reproduction. Would the offspring of such monkey and human be considered human? If so, by US law, we will have the fist American Monkey Citizen.
That 2% failure rate, my friend, is a perceived failure rate, and the actual risk might be much higher than that. Space shuttles are such complex systems that it is impossible to test every single aspect of it. Most of the time, we test it until we FEEL that it is safe to launch. The only reason why we haven't had more accidents can only be attributed to luck. Read Richard Feynman's report on the challenger shuttle accident: http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.ht ml
P-M's 2MB L2 cache also has much less latency than AMD64's L2 cache (~10 cycles vs ~20 cycles). So applications whose data fill well into the 2MB cache run really fast, but those who can't will suffer through a 533MHz FSB.
Even on embedded systems, unless it is ABSOLUTELY necessary, I would still code for maintainability and portability in sacrifice of performance. Think about porting your applications and revising it in the future when new platforms are available, you'd rather have a clear but slow code than a fast but hard-to-maintain code.
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I'm interested to see whether this technology can be tweaked to display slightly different images on narrow angles, which can trick our eyes to believe the flat images are 3-D.
The title of the story is "How Linux Beats Windows in ID Management." Okay, I read the TFA, and all I read was an introduction to LDAP. Where's the comparison that shows "Linux Beats Windows?" The article is not even about linux; it's about LDAP solutions that can be run on *nix systems. For the love of God please please don't run stupid stories like this again.
On a personal account, ubuntu is the first disto that I used that supported my old toshiba laptop's wireless card right out of box. I'm very impressed. The reason why this point is important is because if setting up a wireless card can be moderately difficult for a geek like me, then how is the OS gonna be easy to use for the general public? Ubuntu has a lot of good things like this that improve the subtle but important usability issues. I applaud to ubuntu and hope their user base grow even bigger.
When the policy is going against the natural market force, there's not much the government can do. You can raid the markets and factories that sell and manufacture the illegal material, but the market demand will eventually cause them to revive somewhere else. America's anti-alchohol legislation is a great example of such bad policies. During the 1930's, the law enforcement tried their best to stop selling liquor, but the bootleg movement surpassed the law enforcement and eventually led to the abolishment of the legislation.
The robot needs 24V DC at 10A as stated on the press release. I don't know how the robot is going to roam around...maybe with a 50kg battery pack strapped on the back? It will probably break down from just carrying the battery pack.
What you said is true, but I'd like to say something in defense of this doing. It's not that Chinese don't want to follow the rules, it's simply because the "legal" ones are too expensive for common Chinese people. You talking about selling a $20 movie DVD to someone who makes that much money in a week (even in America I think it's too expensive). The ill-alligned marketing strategy creates a huge demand for illegal CDs and DVDs. It's no surprise that most of the piracy happen in countries where average salary is low.
Ok...it's an improvement on size. But this is already demonstrated by UC Berkeley on a heavier scale
The article wrote: "Xen doesn't yet support Windows, however." Wrong, wrong, wrong! 1. Xen is an open standard, so any OS can modify their kernel to run on Xen. It's not a matter of which OS is supported by Xen, it's whether that OS is willing to support Xen. 2. At the early stages of Xen, there was a modified windows XP that can run on Xen. But soon it was withdrawn for licensing concerns. Since the sources of windows XP is not publicly available, nobody can modify it and make it run on Xen. So looks like Xen is bound to compete with windows in the future. I wonder how fair this competition is, given that MS may never make windows xen-compatible.
This might be off topic, but I disagree with you. Business ethics is itself oxymoron, for there is no dollar value for humanity in a dog-eat-dog capitalistic competition. To me, he's done better than Bush, for at least he didn't spend the money on invading other countries.
Again, RTFA. They admitted the deficiencies of GCC. And you are wrong about gcc favoring x86. Given any generic compiler, it is more likely it will favor RISC (powerpc) architectures than CISC architectures (x86), simply because RISC ISA is designed for compilers from the ground up! Indeed, the author even pointed out that gcc is really bad at SSE2 instructions. GCC is an excellent choice for compiler, being the more widely used compiler and its history.
I read through the whole comparison/review. The article points out that the main factor that MySQL is slow on OS X is how threads are handled in darwin. It's a speculation based on good observations. However, I think that the author should have done a more controlled test to prove his point, such as running yellowdog linux and OS X on identical hardware to compare MySQL performance. Instead, the mahcines that ran linux were opteron and xeon machines, which made it hard to tell whether the hardware or the kernel contributed more to the performance difference.
As fast as Ferrari? How about some common sense. The motor is said to be directly driving the wheels w/o transmission, and the motor spins at up to 2500 RPM. Suppose the diameter of the wheel is 16in: 2500 (rotation/min) * 60 (min/hour) * 16*pi (inch/rotation) / 63360 (inch/mile) = 119 MPH. That's the absolute maximum speed with a 16-in wheel. It may accelerate as fast as a Ferrari, but will never run as fast!
The improvement is that the network will be open to any retail content provider, fostering competition, and ultimately reduce your costs. Verizon and Adelphia don't allow this. If you read the article carefully, Nulty is not planning to monoplize the content providing service. Instead, BT will eventually be providing the public infrastruction only, and consumers will be free to choose from whatever service they want. An analogy to this would be the government building the highway, so that USPS, UPS, Fedex can all compete in the package delivery business. If UPS had built the highway by themselves, they wouldn't have allowed Fedex to use it. And that would be really bad.
OS/2 WARP, if you trace w2k back to win nt, which has its roots in OS/2 WARP. Now we are back to IBM!
It's a nice idea. But once the bounty is awarded, there is no more incentive to actively maintain it from the open source community. Without additional bounty, this project will have to compete on level ground with mySQL and PostgreSQL, where a lot of community interests have been vested.
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I don't foresee the widespread of UMD anytime soon (or ever), but PSP also has a memory stick slot and 802.11 wireless. It would be interesting to see a hack that involves loading a linux/BSD kernel from the memory stick, and then play streaming videa/music, or better yet, play games on SMB/NFS mount.
Just for the sake of argument, suppose we created a hybrid monkey with DNA close enough to us humans that allow the possibility of human-monkey reproduction. Would the offspring of such monkey and human be considered human? If so, by US law, we will have the fist American Monkey Citizen.
But don't all the new macs already run darwin/opendarwin? And I suppose you could easily put x windows on those os?
That 2% failure rate, my friend, is a perceived failure rate, and the actual risk might be much higher than that. Space shuttles are such complex systems that it is impossible to test every single aspect of it. Most of the time, we test it until we FEEL that it is safe to launch. The only reason why we haven't had more accidents can only be attributed to luck. Read Richard Feynman's report on the challenger shuttle accident: http://www.ralentz.com/old/space/feynman-report.ht ml
P-M's 2MB L2 cache also has much less latency than AMD64's L2 cache (~10 cycles vs ~20 cycles). So applications whose data fill well into the 2MB cache run really fast, but those who can't will suffer through a 533MHz FSB.
There are already many passively-cooled ones. Check out mini-itx.com.
Even on embedded systems, unless it is ABSOLUTELY necessary, I would still code for maintainability and portability in sacrifice of performance. Think about porting your applications and revising it in the future when new platforms are available, you'd rather have a clear but slow code than a fast but hard-to-maintain code.