We already know that they have a patent on a microprocessor which should be able to run other processor instructions. + Crusoe = out of order sourCe.
Ok, here it is: It's a multiprocessor that, given any instruction set, figures out ways to parallelize the code as much as possible by performing instructions out of order.
Net commerce works in very different ways, yet anti-trust law hasn't evolved. Microsoft didn't become a monopoly by jacking up prices, but by using practically the opposite tactic - in effect giving products away to obtain staggering market share.
Lowering prices to get rid of competitors and become or maintain a monopoly status is as old as the railroads. Let's not confuse tactics performed in preservation of a monopoly with tactics performed when that monopoly is secure.
No, you've got it backwards. This regulation allows parents to take responsibility for their kids.
Think about it-- The reason we have laws about parental consent isn't because parents are too lazy to watch their kids. It's because you shouldn't have to stand next to your kid every waking moment to keep people from taking advantage of your kid.
A marketing organization is collectively much craftier than an 11 year old, or even most parents for that matter. Regulations help keep them in check.
As for your example, "this is important Timmy. Never give anyone on the internet your address or phone number with out Mommy's permission," well maybe it will work with some kids and maybe it won't. Is it really ok to punish the Timmy who forgets to ask Mommy or are too excited because the website is promising them Really Cool Games?
If it takes a village to raise a child, then the village should pitch in once in a while.
People who dismiss Java because it didn't "take over the world" simply don't understand how much Java hurt Microsoft and, as a side effect, helped other operating systems like Linux.
This paragraph from the article is telling:
Plainly there's no need to mourn for Java's fate. But its success as a sort of welding tool for computer networks is a long way from the early visions of Java partisans.
Java's use as a 'welding' tool was the death sentence for Microsoft's plans for taking over the world. For most companies, it's MUCH easier to operate an all-Windows network than a mixed network or all-anything-else network. The only thing that's probably keeping many companies from going 100% Windows is Java + Javascript + HTML interfaces to legacy systems. That is why IBM has thousands of Java programmers and is giving away Visual Age for Java for Linux. If everyone were programming in Visual Basic, IBM and Linux would be in very deep doo-doo.
Oh, and support Mozilla, too. It will probably be essential in a few years.
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Ok, let's take it a bit more seriously.
We already know that they have a patent on a microprocessor which should be able to run other processor instructions.
+
Crusoe = out of order sourCe.
Ok, here it is: It's a multiprocessor that, given any instruction set, figures out ways to parallelize the code as much as possible by performing instructions out of order.
Net commerce works in very different ways, yet anti-trust law hasn't evolved. Microsoft didn't become a monopoly by jacking up prices, but by using practically the opposite tactic - in effect giving products away to obtain staggering market share.
Lowering prices to get rid of competitors and become or maintain a monopoly status is as old as the railroads. Let's not confuse tactics performed in preservation of a monopoly with tactics performed when that monopoly is secure.
No, you've got it backwards. This regulation allows parents to take responsibility for their kids.
Think about it-- The reason we have laws about parental consent isn't because parents are too lazy to watch their kids. It's because you shouldn't have to stand next to your kid every waking moment to keep people from taking advantage of your kid.
A marketing organization is collectively much craftier than an 11 year old, or even most parents for that matter. Regulations help keep them in check.
As for your example, "this is important Timmy. Never give anyone on the internet your address or phone number with out Mommy's permission," well maybe it will work with some kids and maybe it won't. Is it really ok to punish the Timmy who forgets to ask Mommy or are too excited because the website is promising them Really Cool Games?
If it takes a village to raise a child, then the village should pitch in once in a while.
Al Gore was actually instrumental in lots of the legislation supporting the backbone to what is now the internet.
He may have overreached when he said "help create," but he did certainly helped grow it.
This paragraph from the article is telling:
Plainly there's no need to mourn for Java's fate. But its success as a sort of welding tool for computer networks is a long way from the early visions of Java partisans.
Java's use as a 'welding' tool was the death sentence for Microsoft's plans for taking over the world. For most companies, it's MUCH easier to operate an all-Windows network than a mixed network or all-anything-else network. The only thing that's probably keeping many companies from going 100% Windows is Java + Javascript + HTML interfaces to legacy systems. That is why IBM has thousands of Java programmers and is giving away Visual Age for Java for Linux. If everyone were programming in Visual Basic, IBM and Linux would be in very deep doo-doo.
Oh, and support Mozilla, too. It will probably be essential in a few years.