First, I would love to see Cisco and Microsoft slugging it out.
Second, Microsoft has as much right as anyone to engage in a VoIP business. Reflex knee-jerk bashing is just that, and unhelpful with considering all the ramifications. Simply assuming the worst because it is Microsoft is dead flat wrong and guaranteed to be counterproductive to countering them in competition.
Third, the *nix/non-MS world hasn't taken big enough of a part in brainstorming, talking over, promulgating, and adopting uniform standards and frameworks for VoIP, watching instead as a VoIP industry did it, slugging it out for years until their ideas and visions were finally tested and glommed onto in their own ways by various larger vendors who had before taken a wait-and-see approach.
Before the non-MS world gets all uptight about this, they might want to tighten up their support for common desktop audio-visual hardware like sound boards and webcams. They might want to write networking code as tight and reliable as CiscoIOS. They might want to start innovating instead of remaing fragmented self-deluded noble fantasy rebels againt the evil Microsoft. Microsoft has nothing to worry about until by virtue of sheer numbers of usage, things not created and perfected by them need to be adopted and they have to come to others to sign license and royalty contracts.
From the point of view of using open code:
The ability to use open code in a non open product with no more than three provisions: first that I only have to republish the open code used whether or not I changed it and if so with the changes notes, second that any code strictly written by me remain mine to do with as I please and be under no compulsion to open it or relinquish my rights to it in any way, and third to pay such royalties as are required to whoever is assigned their receipt should I charge for the resulting product.
From the point of view of creating open code:
A license model with various clauses that allows me to either open my code completely or partially, and grant certain rights to users to either use it for free or be able to charge for derivative works and require or not as I see fit disclosure of the code used and any changes made.
The whole cliche IANAL thing holds great meaning here in that I am NOT a lawyer but a techie. I don't want to become a lawyer or even a paralegal and the licenses out there damn near require me to start becoming one. Given that, I might as well retain a lawyer to write licenses based on my desires on demand. Since I live in a court town with more laywers per square mile than manhole covers and potholes, it's not that difficult to find them.
Industry needs to be able to charge for the fruits of their labors and would likely have not a lot of problem paying royalties to open source organizations. Such monies would undoubtedly go far in attracting full time core developers and keepers in a way that PayPal donations just can't touch.
Imagine if Microsoft was embraced instead by the open source world, if the open source world worked WITH Microsoft, instead of constantly against them. With more flexible and sane license structures and an end to eschewing commerce and capitalism on the open source side, more of the outside world's work might then find its way into Microsoft products where they could then say, "we're responsible for that" and "we changed that structure and made it more secure". And a lot of Microsoft's work might under the right license terms make it back to the open source world for inclusion into other OSes and so forth.
Just a little dream I have that someday people will grow up and learn you cannot change the course of a stampede by standing before it and yelling epithets and waving slogans, but must join the stampede, run the race to the fore, and lead it from within. Windows' entrenchment is that stampede and open source is the idiot sitting before it on the ground thinking he can wave off the charging cattle.
it would then mean that this is an average based on a large sampling of users. So some users take forever to infect themselves while others are going to malware infected sites with 0.03 seconds.
And people doubt me when I say the primary reason for most people going online is porn and the primary place to get infected is so-called "free porn" sites... Though "free ringotnes" and "free smilies for your IM" are coming up rapidly behind.
In 1995, I was asked for a minimum of three years experience in Windows 95.
In 1999, I was asked for a minimum of four years experience in Windows 98.
In 2002, I was asked for a minimum of six years experience in Windows 2000.
Thankfully, no one is asking for an amount of TCP/IP experience that predates the protocol as I would have been a kid at the time. Telecom is so much more straightforward to get a job in than end-user desktop support. Though... I did once get asked for twenty years experience in Token Ring. It took me a whole day to get the severe wide-eyed "WTF?!" look off my twenty-six year old face. Two more days to pick my jaw off the floor and stop muttering to myself.
Java were as light and fluffy as this article. Unfortunately, it's like trying to run C++ programs through an interpreter on a machine at 3/4 of the power of the one you're using instead of actually compiling and tweaking it for maximum speed and efficiency.
I'm glad for them that they've gotten as far as they have, but they've got a long way to go before computing power catches up with being able to run the earliest Java applications at a reasonable speed and with proper reliability. I use Java apps at work and they are often slow and ponderous compared to similar apps written the normal way in C++.
Did I say often? I meant always. Lots of work to go yet.
They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and immediately attempted a smear campaign to draw attention away from themselves.
Further, on nothing more than the company's say-so, they got a search and seizure warrant from a judge who was obviously unfit for service by the very fact of his signing it. Actual investigation and evidence is required usually for this kind of thing and it seems to be a case of "he-said, got the warrant, screw what the other guy said" sort of thing. Having been the victim of this myself, I am not surprised. Saddened that it continues, but not surprised. People who love increasing the powers of the state for their political aims can just as quickly be the nail getting pounded down by that same state.
What is so shocking is that they think they will get away with it. All that are needed are logs from servers harvested by this scumbag outfit despite their attempts at a polite no through robots.txt, etc., and it will become a landslide against them with the first lawsuit for the intrusion.
They might add a starbucks logo over each of their coffee shops on the map. It would be a good way to pay for it and thus keep it free for developers.
In Raleigh, NC that would essentially blot out the map at anything but the largest distance, least magnification view. Add McDonald's and so forth and you can forget a map of Manhattan. Floating logos are not a good idea.
Well, this isn't necessarily bad or good
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First, much of Japanese animation is aimed naturally at Japanese modern society because they are watching it first. Do Americans aim their animation at any audience but themselves first?
Second, fan subs are killing nothing and only increasing the fan base which would gladly buy the anime if only it would be exported in the first place. Some of them are insatiable gluttons.
Third, between Suncoast/et al carrying manga and anime, there is a "this is new and faddish" crowd above and beyond the hardcore anime fans being carered to.
Nice article, some incorrect ideas, and doesn't show probably as deep a knowledge of the American and western anime fanbase as could be had with a little research. OTOH, that knowledge might be found frightening and Japan might just go (in Japanese) "WTF is wrong with these people? And they think we're the eccentric ones? We should just stop sending our animation to them. They clearly aren't getting out of it what we intended and getting something else we didn't."
It really writes itself. As others said, they go after copyright infringement, and infringement of AMERICAN copyrights, over everything else, like terrorism, counterfeiting, etc.
Whenever I think this administration is going to wake up and be briefly sensible, things like this happen. What worries me is that after this administration things will snap back in the other direction with a vengeance and we'll see one of the most business-unfriendly left-wing Democrat regimes ever. I don't need to see the economy take another dump because politicians take control who see all business and money making as the root of evil. I rather like having a paycheck to pay my bills and whatnot with. I really don't need to pay more taxes than I already do.
Of course, no one in power seems to grasp that angle and how much damage they are permanently doing to the conservative right's reputation, never mind America's (and I supported the Iraq war, but not based on that WMD nonsense).
For those of you thinking so what, forget it. The Democrats will continue the lapdog behavior for their own peculiar politics. The only way to fight is to not watch their movies ever. Period. No more. Not one more dime to them. Same for the CDs. It's the only thing they understand.
I barely use it to collate doings on the web and look at the skimmings on my Yahoo home page. It merely takes up space on Trillian and I don't even use it there. I can't think of anywhere else I bother. The only thing I can think of this being any good for is the aformentioned headline collecting and for web sites to automate their advertising yet another way.
Does every new webified format have to generate all the buzz it does? Or is it just because it touches on the (currently) new hotness iPod and podcasting?
First, the Apple card is irrellevant. That is more a function of Jobs continuing to limit what is a pretty easily portable OS to ONE architecture and I don't mean the CPU, I mean the motherboard and BIOS. If Jobs would finally get it through his head that Microsoft continuously kick's Apple's arse for, among other reasons, the fact that Apple refuses to position themselves as a software/OS company and tries to straddle the line, which Microsoft has carefully tried to avoid doing since forever. OSX is a good product and it is that which should be driving them. They'd go a lot farther if they went over to the PC hardware side with it. Imagine OSX on a quad 64 bit dual core Opteron SMP board. You can do it with Linux, Windows, BSD, etc. Not OSX because Jobs can never admit he has ever been short of perfectly omnisciently right.
Second, AMD is in no danger of having a sizeable portion of their market taken by Intel and instead AMD has been making inroads into Intel's area with server class CPU offerings and the mobo makers have been making boards for them right along. For instance, that quad 64 bit dual core Opteron SMP board I mentioned above. I'd gladly buy one of these... if I won the lottery.
Third, yes, Intel should NOT be strong-arming anyone and they deserve to be rebuked by the courts for it, but it should be a criminal anti-trust slap and not a civil court slap as it looks more like vindictiveness and victimhood whinyness. "Look at us at AMD not getting enough of Intel's market because Intel is daring to defend themselves through unfair practices! Someone punish Intel for us so we can eat more of the market share!" Yes, I know that this administration isn't likely to do it, and a liberal Democrat administration would do it for politics sake so there's no real morally neutral enforcing the law angle there, sadly. Ideally, we'd need a business-friendly Republican administration to say, "okay, this is just wrong and you need to be called on the carpet for it." I ain't holding my breath so I guess civil court is the only recourse, again, sadly.
AMD already has the paranoid (and hypocritical) anti-corporate geek brigades behind it and has for a long time now. FUD based nonsense hate of Intel for ruling the market of a chipset they pioneered in the first place? Perfectly acceptable. Love of AMD despite them being also a big company? Perfectly acceptable. (Reminds me of the Google thing despite their lack of Linux support) I take all this with a grain of salt. On the merits, I find just the tactics bother me, not that they are actually trying to defend their market share. If AMD had pull themselves, I have ZERO doubt they'd do it themselves.
I'd be happiest if both of them combined all their instruction sets and promulgated a new baseline X86 instruction set. If NEC, Motorola, etc all made compatible chips and the mobo makers made boards for them, it would be better for the consumers' bottom line. Adhering to standards though would be the single most important thing so as not to fark the users and cause all sorts of unavoidable code forking. I don't need sixteen different Windows and Linux builds per type of either, ie, I don't need sixteen different FC4 builds due to processor differences...
Well since a bunch of scientists just realized our brains are analog and not binary (see elsewhere on/.) maybe we'll see more rapid breakthroughs in AI and be able to personalize those little electronic helpers and talk to them. They'll become our own person Internet NeoPets, flitting from system to system, ready to dive into the net and retrieve info and whatnot.
"Hey Oscar, go get me anything you can find on the next Debian kernel's development progress."
"That's Linux related. Are you sure you don't want me to go to Microsoft and get some patches for you?"
this has the same acronym as the condition Can't Remember Sh*t which is something I often think most members of congress are afflicted with, but then so many don't read these research reports and their staffers are given to spinning the overview to their bosses to suit their bosses' point of view (frequently that Cranio-Rectal Syndrome mentioned already which is also funny).
Now, instead of the ratio of external readers to congressmen being 10 to 1, it will be more like 1,000 to 1 which is sad given that the population is over 260,000,000 and paying for these things. I'm sure though that there will be some people now scanning through these for possible/. articles. "Congress recently generated a report on AMD and other non-Intel processors with regard to national security..." or some such...
how does it compare to the solar ones they wanted to fly which are supposed to stay up indefinitely? Also, are there applications for missions on Mars? Pretty neat accomplishment though.
Might this have anything to do with Sun resisting Linux and trying to save Solaris the usual way many companies do, by not inovating and by "encouraging" partners to resist other platforms by way of strong-arm tactics? I seem to recall SGI being similarly oblivious to their workstation space being slowly eatent by WindowsNT years back, instead doing everything they could to jawbone customers into staying with them rather than giving them exactly what they wanted at the price point they wanted.
Oh well. Wait a few years and you'll have 64-bit processors in your iPod multibooting six kinds of Linux and two of Windows and maybe even OSXXX. Forget a laptop. I want a PDA that does what a workstation can. Given rates of advancements, I won't be waiting long.
I was writing neural net simulations, albeit really amature ones, in assembly back in 1984 based on this already back then ultra super mega well known fact. Here it is 2005 and this is just being "discovered"?
Perhaps these researchers missed decades of neural net and artificial life research which takes this biologicals-are-non-binary fact a priori? Perhaps they missed the sub-areas in mathematics and coding theory? Or it being posited (repeatedly) that we'd need something more like nanotech using chemistry or optics to do this rather than simple transistor arrays on chips?
If so, I question their credentials and wonder how they got to be "researchers".
...are PCI/PCI-X/whatever slot boards which would put most of the best part of a game console into the PC and finally merge them. One console in each slot and I can keep them in one media PC on the entertainment center.
We're getting to the point that these are nothing more than stripped down yet souped up PCs anyhow. We're also getting to the point that video cards are approaching the complexity of graphics workstations all by themselves. Might as well put them together and get one decent device.
Not that I expect Microsoft or Nintendo to stick hardware in my PC where grubby hackers can write unapproved games and other stuff for them though...
but we're unable to find where the icon images at/. are going.
Okay, more practically, I'll wait to care about this for when they announce it as absolute, no way it is anything but. I want them to find these exotic weather systems with methane, propane, and so on, but I want them to be solid with the observations and calculations first and foremost. Anything else is just more glamorizing. I want it to finally be something you can put in a basic space science book and tell kids, yes, this is true.
Like the aluminum and titanium content of lunar soil as opposed to cheese.
First, Google, despite being the beloved of the geek crowd is Windows-centric again and again. I have working nVidia drivers on FC3, why can't I get an app to surf 3D satellite maps and such? Why is Keyhole for Windows? Is Google going to do ANYTHING with Linux? I don't see them as such darlings, but then I don't have an irrational FUD-based hatred of Microsoft so I am not seizing on them as a battering ram against Redmond.
Second, Portal Kombat is finished. The audience left before there could be a truly gory fatality and left Netscape, Lycos, etc. to figure it out (to the extent that it ever did actually sink in) for themselves that they (the public) didn't care. Why does Microsoft care who searches the web through which engine?
Third, why are people so interested in searching their own desktops? Hello? Anyone remember AltaVista and their search software? Whoopie. I get to have someone else write code so I can waste processor cycles searching my machine for files I should have been smart enough to organize in the first place. Want to help me? Write an app that catalogs every CD as soon as I insert it and then stores the results in a database and make it part of the OS package.
If anything, this is more like Peterbilt saying they're going to catch up with Ferrari. Different markets altogether really. I don't need anyone to search my desktop, Google doesn't write any sort of OS, and Microsoft has never been the search king in my experience. So it's like, who cares?
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First, I would love to see Cisco and Microsoft slugging it out.
Second, Microsoft has as much right as anyone to engage in a VoIP business. Reflex knee-jerk bashing is just that, and unhelpful with considering all the ramifications. Simply assuming the worst because it is Microsoft is dead flat wrong and guaranteed to be counterproductive to countering them in competition.
Third, the *nix/non-MS world hasn't taken big enough of a part in brainstorming, talking over, promulgating, and adopting uniform standards and frameworks for VoIP, watching instead as a VoIP industry did it, slugging it out for years until their ideas and visions were finally tested and glommed onto in their own ways by various larger vendors who had before taken a wait-and-see approach.
Before the non-MS world gets all uptight about this, they might want to tighten up their support for common desktop audio-visual hardware like sound boards and webcams. They might want to write networking code as tight and reliable as CiscoIOS. They might want to start innovating instead of remaing fragmented self-deluded noble fantasy rebels againt the evil Microsoft. Microsoft has nothing to worry about until by virtue of sheer numbers of usage, things not created and perfected by them need to be adopted and they have to come to others to sign license and royalty contracts.
From the point of view of using open code:
The ability to use open code in a non open product with no more than three provisions: first that I only have to republish the open code used whether or not I changed it and if so with the changes notes, second that any code strictly written by me remain mine to do with as I please and be under no compulsion to open it or relinquish my rights to it in any way, and third to pay such royalties as are required to whoever is assigned their receipt should I charge for the resulting product.
From the point of view of creating open code:
A license model with various clauses that allows me to either open my code completely or partially, and grant certain rights to users to either use it for free or be able to charge for derivative works and require or not as I see fit disclosure of the code used and any changes made.
The whole cliche IANAL thing holds great meaning here in that I am NOT a lawyer but a techie. I don't want to become a lawyer or even a paralegal and the licenses out there damn near require me to start becoming one. Given that, I might as well retain a lawyer to write licenses based on my desires on demand. Since I live in a court town with more laywers per square mile than manhole covers and potholes, it's not that difficult to find them.
Industry needs to be able to charge for the fruits of their labors and would likely have not a lot of problem paying royalties to open source organizations. Such monies would undoubtedly go far in attracting full time core developers and keepers in a way that PayPal donations just can't touch.
Imagine if Microsoft was embraced instead by the open source world, if the open source world worked WITH Microsoft, instead of constantly against them. With more flexible and sane license structures and an end to eschewing commerce and capitalism on the open source side, more of the outside world's work might then find its way into Microsoft products where they could then say, "we're responsible for that" and "we changed that structure and made it more secure". And a lot of Microsoft's work might under the right license terms make it back to the open source world for inclusion into other OSes and so forth.
Just a little dream I have that someday people will grow up and learn you cannot change the course of a stampede by standing before it and yelling epithets and waving slogans, but must join the stampede, run the race to the fore, and lead it from within. Windows' entrenchment is that stampede and open source is the idiot sitting before it on the ground thinking he can wave off the charging cattle.
it would then mean that this is an average based on a large sampling of users. So some users take forever to infect themselves while others are going to malware infected sites with 0.03 seconds.
And people doubt me when I say the primary reason for most people going online is porn and the primary place to get infected is so-called "free porn" sites... Though "free ringotnes" and "free smilies for your IM" are coming up rapidly behind.
In 1995, I was asked for a minimum of three years experience in Windows 95.
In 1999, I was asked for a minimum of four years experience in Windows 98.
In 2002, I was asked for a minimum of six years experience in Windows 2000.
Thankfully, no one is asking for an amount of TCP/IP experience that predates the protocol as I would have been a kid at the time. Telecom is so much more straightforward to get a job in than end-user desktop support. Though... I did once get asked for twenty years experience in Token Ring. It took me a whole day to get the severe wide-eyed "WTF?!" look off my twenty-six year old face. Two more days to pick my jaw off the floor and stop muttering to myself.
Java were as light and fluffy as this article. Unfortunately, it's like trying to run C++ programs through an interpreter on a machine at 3/4 of the power of the one you're using instead of actually compiling and tweaking it for maximum speed and efficiency.
I'm glad for them that they've gotten as far as they have, but they've got a long way to go before computing power catches up with being able to run the earliest Java applications at a reasonable speed and with proper reliability. I use Java apps at work and they are often slow and ponderous compared to similar apps written the normal way in C++.
Did I say often? I meant always. Lots of work to go yet.
FYI, grandparent should have been modded informative and parent modded funny.
They got caught with their hand in the cookie jar and immediately attempted a smear campaign to draw attention away from themselves.
Further, on nothing more than the company's say-so, they got a search and seizure warrant from a judge who was obviously unfit for service by the very fact of his signing it. Actual investigation and evidence is required usually for this kind of thing and it seems to be a case of "he-said, got the warrant, screw what the other guy said" sort of thing. Having been the victim of this myself, I am not surprised. Saddened that it continues, but not surprised. People who love increasing the powers of the state for their political aims can just as quickly be the nail getting pounded down by that same state.
What is so shocking is that they think they will get away with it. All that are needed are logs from servers harvested by this scumbag outfit despite their attempts at a polite no through robots.txt, etc., and it will become a landslide against them with the first lawsuit for the intrusion.
If I had any money, I'd send some.
They might add a starbucks logo over each of their coffee shops on the map. It would be a good way to pay for it and thus keep it free for developers.
In Raleigh, NC that would essentially blot out the map at anything but the largest distance, least magnification view. Add McDonald's and so forth and you can forget a map of Manhattan. Floating logos are not a good idea.
First, much of Japanese animation is aimed naturally at Japanese modern society because they are watching it first. Do Americans aim their animation at any audience but themselves first?
Second, fan subs are killing nothing and only increasing the fan base which would gladly buy the anime if only it would be exported in the first place. Some of them are insatiable gluttons.
Third, between Suncoast/et al carrying manga and anime, there is a "this is new and faddish" crowd above and beyond the hardcore anime fans being carered to.
Nice article, some incorrect ideas, and doesn't show probably as deep a knowledge of the American and western anime fanbase as could be had with a little research. OTOH, that knowledge might be found frightening and Japan might just go (in Japanese) "WTF is wrong with these people? And they think we're the eccentric ones? We should just stop sending our animation to them. They clearly aren't getting out of it what we intended and getting something else we didn't."
It really writes itself. As others said, they go after copyright infringement, and infringement of AMERICAN copyrights, over everything else, like terrorism, counterfeiting, etc.
Whenever I think this administration is going to wake up and be briefly sensible, things like this happen. What worries me is that after this administration things will snap back in the other direction with a vengeance and we'll see one of the most business-unfriendly left-wing Democrat regimes ever. I don't need to see the economy take another dump because politicians take control who see all business and money making as the root of evil. I rather like having a paycheck to pay my bills and whatnot with. I really don't need to pay more taxes than I already do.
Of course, no one in power seems to grasp that angle and how much damage they are permanently doing to the conservative right's reputation, never mind America's (and I supported the Iraq war, but not based on that WMD nonsense).
For those of you thinking so what, forget it. The Democrats will continue the lapdog behavior for their own peculiar politics. The only way to fight is to not watch their movies ever. Period. No more. Not one more dime to them. Same for the CDs. It's the only thing they understand.
Thank you for this. If it could be modded +25 funny, I'd see it done.
Wow, an 11 nation RAID? Now that is redundancy!
Yeah, but it was ReiserFS and everyone is hoping no one looks at it funny and causes it to crash.
Is this another new monster from Kingdom of Loathing?
Microsoft defending itself against a competing platform? Sending attack money out? No, say it ain't so.
(insert your favorite eyes rolling emoticon here)
I mean, didn't we already go through this? Seems pretty familiar to me...
I barely use it to collate doings on the web and look at the skimmings on my Yahoo home page. It merely takes up space on Trillian and I don't even use it there. I can't think of anywhere else I bother. The only thing I can think of this being any good for is the aformentioned headline collecting and for web sites to automate their advertising yet another way.
Does every new webified format have to generate all the buzz it does? Or is it just because it touches on the (currently) new hotness iPod and podcasting?
First, the Apple card is irrellevant. That is more a function of Jobs continuing to limit what is a pretty easily portable OS to ONE architecture and I don't mean the CPU, I mean the motherboard and BIOS. If Jobs would finally get it through his head that Microsoft continuously kick's Apple's arse for, among other reasons, the fact that Apple refuses to position themselves as a software/OS company and tries to straddle the line, which Microsoft has carefully tried to avoid doing since forever. OSX is a good product and it is that which should be driving them. They'd go a lot farther if they went over to the PC hardware side with it. Imagine OSX on a quad 64 bit dual core Opteron SMP board. You can do it with Linux, Windows, BSD, etc. Not OSX because Jobs can never admit he has ever been short of perfectly omnisciently right.
Second, AMD is in no danger of having a sizeable portion of their market taken by Intel and instead AMD has been making inroads into Intel's area with server class CPU offerings and the mobo makers have been making boards for them right along. For instance, that quad 64 bit dual core Opteron SMP board I mentioned above. I'd gladly buy one of these... if I won the lottery.
Third, yes, Intel should NOT be strong-arming anyone and they deserve to be rebuked by the courts for it, but it should be a criminal anti-trust slap and not a civil court slap as it looks more like vindictiveness and victimhood whinyness. "Look at us at AMD not getting enough of Intel's market because Intel is daring to defend themselves through unfair practices! Someone punish Intel for us so we can eat more of the market share!" Yes, I know that this administration isn't likely to do it, and a liberal Democrat administration would do it for politics sake so there's no real morally neutral enforcing the law angle there, sadly. Ideally, we'd need a business-friendly Republican administration to say, "okay, this is just wrong and you need to be called on the carpet for it." I ain't holding my breath so I guess civil court is the only recourse, again, sadly.
AMD already has the paranoid (and hypocritical) anti-corporate geek brigades behind it and has for a long time now. FUD based nonsense hate of Intel for ruling the market of a chipset they pioneered in the first place? Perfectly acceptable. Love of AMD despite them being also a big company? Perfectly acceptable. (Reminds me of the Google thing despite their lack of Linux support) I take all this with a grain of salt. On the merits, I find just the tactics bother me, not that they are actually trying to defend their market share. If AMD had pull themselves, I have ZERO doubt they'd do it themselves.
I'd be happiest if both of them combined all their instruction sets and promulgated a new baseline X86 instruction set. If NEC, Motorola, etc all made compatible chips and the mobo makers made boards for them, it would be better for the consumers' bottom line. Adhering to standards though would be the single most important thing so as not to fark the users and cause all sorts of unavoidable code forking. I don't need sixteen different Windows and Linux builds per type of either, ie, I don't need sixteen different FC4 builds due to processor differences...
Well since a bunch of scientists just realized our brains are analog and not binary (see elsewhere on /.) maybe we'll see more rapid breakthroughs in AI and be able to personalize those little electronic helpers and talk to them. They'll become our own person Internet NeoPets, flitting from system to system, ready to dive into the net and retrieve info and whatnot.
"Hey Oscar, go get me anything you can find on the next Debian kernel's development progress."
"That's Linux related. Are you sure you don't want me to go to Microsoft and get some patches for you?"
"Should I have seen this coming?"
this has the same acronym as the condition Can't Remember Sh*t which is something I often think most members of congress are afflicted with, but then so many don't read these research reports and their staffers are given to spinning the overview to their bosses to suit their bosses' point of view (frequently that Cranio-Rectal Syndrome mentioned already which is also funny).
/. articles. "Congress recently generated a report on AMD and other non-Intel processors with regard to national security..." or some such...
Now, instead of the ratio of external readers to congressmen being 10 to 1, it will be more like 1,000 to 1 which is sad given that the population is over 260,000,000 and paying for these things. I'm sure though that there will be some people now scanning through these for possible
how does it compare to the solar ones they wanted to fly which are supposed to stay up indefinitely? Also, are there applications for missions on Mars? Pretty neat accomplishment though.
Might this have anything to do with Sun resisting Linux and trying to save Solaris the usual way many companies do, by not inovating and by "encouraging" partners to resist other platforms by way of strong-arm tactics? I seem to recall SGI being similarly oblivious to their workstation space being slowly eatent by WindowsNT years back, instead doing everything they could to jawbone customers into staying with them rather than giving them exactly what they wanted at the price point they wanted.
Oh well. Wait a few years and you'll have 64-bit processors in your iPod multibooting six kinds of Linux and two of Windows and maybe even OSXXX. Forget a laptop. I want a PDA that does what a workstation can. Given rates of advancements, I won't be waiting long.
I was writing neural net simulations, albeit really amature ones, in assembly back in 1984 based on this already back then ultra super mega well known fact. Here it is 2005 and this is just being "discovered"?
Perhaps these researchers missed decades of neural net and artificial life research which takes this biologicals-are-non-binary fact a priori? Perhaps they missed the sub-areas in mathematics and coding theory? Or it being posited (repeatedly) that we'd need something more like nanotech using chemistry or optics to do this rather than simple transistor arrays on chips?
If so, I question their credentials and wonder how they got to be "researchers".
"By 2015, we'll have computers as smart as humans."
And given the people I deal with as customers in tech support, this is not an improvement. Quite the opposite really.
"I don't know what the IP address is Dave and I don't care. I just want you to make me work or I'll e-mail your supervisor with a nasty complaint."
...are PCI/PCI-X/whatever slot boards which would put most of the best part of a game console into the PC and finally merge them. One console in each slot and I can keep them in one media PC on the entertainment center.
We're getting to the point that these are nothing more than stripped down yet souped up PCs anyhow. We're also getting to the point that video cards are approaching the complexity of graphics workstations all by themselves. Might as well put them together and get one decent device.
Not that I expect Microsoft or Nintendo to stick hardware in my PC where grubby hackers can write unapproved games and other stuff for them though...
but we're unable to find where the icon images at /. are going.
Okay, more practically, I'll wait to care about this for when they announce it as absolute, no way it is anything but. I want them to find these exotic weather systems with methane, propane, and so on, but I want them to be solid with the observations and calculations first and foremost. Anything else is just more glamorizing. I want it to finally be something you can put in a basic space science book and tell kids, yes, this is true.
Like the aluminum and titanium content of lunar soil as opposed to cheese.
First, Google, despite being the beloved of the geek crowd is Windows-centric again and again. I have working nVidia drivers on FC3, why can't I get an app to surf 3D satellite maps and such? Why is Keyhole for Windows? Is Google going to do ANYTHING with Linux? I don't see them as such darlings, but then I don't have an irrational FUD-based hatred of Microsoft so I am not seizing on them as a battering ram against Redmond.
Second, Portal Kombat is finished. The audience left before there could be a truly gory fatality and left Netscape, Lycos, etc. to figure it out (to the extent that it ever did actually sink in) for themselves that they (the public) didn't care. Why does Microsoft care who searches the web through which engine?
Third, why are people so interested in searching their own desktops? Hello? Anyone remember AltaVista and their search software? Whoopie. I get to have someone else write code so I can waste processor cycles searching my machine for files I should have been smart enough to organize in the first place. Want to help me? Write an app that catalogs every CD as soon as I insert it and then stores the results in a database and make it part of the OS package.
If anything, this is more like Peterbilt saying they're going to catch up with Ferrari. Different markets altogether really. I don't need anyone to search my desktop, Google doesn't write any sort of OS, and Microsoft has never been the search king in my experience. So it's like, who cares?