Here is one example of trademark issue from "nobody". I made a iPhone twitter client called Nukkad (URL: http://bit.ly/Z0uaY). It has capability to use Google Translate to inline translate tweets. It used to be called Twitter World. First I heard from Google. They wanted me to put up "Translated by Google" at the top of every screen which includes translation.
Next I heard from Twitter, they wanted me to change the name. All issue were resolvable. I am nobody hardly make any money, but yes the big Corporations do go after nobody even if you are not making any money.
The problem with thousand of cores is not hardware related. Yes, Intel can build thousands of core by continued innovation in the hardware. However, the software community is still struggling to understand how to use even 8 cores. The concurrency issues are enormous. For example look at the following post:
http://kashi.webhop.net/blog/Technology/index.php/archives/22
Till we solve the concurrency issues the increased number of core will not achieve any higher performance.
The C++ is just starting to deal with concurrency. C++0x adds threads support however, that is just the starting point.
Here is my opinion on this deal reproduced from this blog.
I don't understand it. Are we back to late 90s? This type of valuation is a signal of late 90s valuation which cannot be justified PERIOD. We first had E-Bay acquiring Skype @ ridiculous valuation and then righting it off. Most likely Microsoft will write off this investment in a few months as well. Given the cash position of the MSFT, this will have little impact on their bottom line. But this completely distorts the market space for near future acquisition and startup activity. The VC money flow starts diverting on ".com" and starts drying off from infrastructure where such valuations are still not there.
I loved late 90s. Lots of people made a lot of money. But I was just too young at that time. May be if MSFT/Yahoo/Google keep fighting, I will be able to make some money in late '00s:)
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Here is one example of trademark issue from "nobody". I made a iPhone twitter client called Nukkad (URL: http://bit.ly/Z0uaY). It has capability to use Google Translate to inline translate tweets. It used to be called Twitter World. First I heard from Google. They wanted me to put up "Translated by Google" at the top of every screen which includes translation. Next I heard from Twitter, they wanted me to change the name. All issue were resolvable. I am nobody hardly make any money, but yes the big Corporations do go after nobody even if you are not making any money.
The problem with thousand of cores is not hardware related. Yes, Intel can build thousands of core by continued innovation in the hardware. However, the software community is still struggling to understand how to use even 8 cores. The concurrency issues are enormous. For example look at the following post: http://kashi.webhop.net/blog/Technology/index.php/archives/22 Till we solve the concurrency issues the increased number of core will not achieve any higher performance. The C++ is just starting to deal with concurrency. C++0x adds threads support however, that is just the starting point.
Here is my opinion on this deal reproduced from this blog. I don't understand it. Are we back to late 90s? This type of valuation is a signal of late 90s valuation which cannot be justified PERIOD. We first had E-Bay acquiring Skype @ ridiculous valuation and then righting it off. Most likely Microsoft will write off this investment in a few months as well. Given the cash position of the MSFT, this will have little impact on their bottom line. But this completely distorts the market space for near future acquisition and startup activity. The VC money flow starts diverting on ".com" and starts drying off from infrastructure where such valuations are still not there. I loved late 90s. Lots of people made a lot of money. But I was just too young at that time. May be if MSFT/Yahoo/Google keep fighting, I will be able to make some money in late '00s :)