In my mind, an industry standard is simply the most popular design/implementation. Its quality and its popularity don't necessarily coincide, but if it's popular, isn't it easy to make the case that it is a standard?
To one person, PHP may be the industry standard for dynamic web pages. To another it may be ASP. Or JSP. Which one is the best? Depends on who you ask. The fact is, each of these technologies is an industry standard because they are popular.
In the end, doesn't it all just seem a little arbitrary?
I've often wondered if it would be possible to create something actually interesting using a genetic algorithm operating on initally random data. I wonder if a genetic algorithm could be used to re-hash all of those random statements into something that actually has an intelligent flow to it.
Maybe I should patent it.:)
It seems doubtful to me that either ATI or nVidia will open source their drivers any time in the imaginable future. It seems very likely to me that the driver implementation would be tied extremely closely to the implementation of the hardware, and I don't think these capitalistic giants are prepared to give away any trade secrets at this point. We'll see how it all plays out, though. Should be interesting.
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It has been speculated that Google is (or will be) developing a web browser.
Check out: http://www.kottke.org/04/09/more-google-browser
But where does this leave gbrowser? :)
Maybe they will find the Lunarians from Final Fantasy II. Meteo!!
My ray tracer will rule! Bring on the free lunch.
BYU switched several years ago. By the time I took CS 240 back in 2000 what had once been the UNIX lab was full of Dell linux boxes.
In my mind, an industry standard is simply the most popular design/implementation. Its quality and its popularity don't necessarily coincide, but if it's popular, isn't it easy to make the case that it is a standard?
To one person, PHP may be the industry standard for dynamic web pages. To another it may be ASP. Or JSP. Which one is the best? Depends on who you ask. The fact is, each of these technologies is an industry standard because they are popular.
In the end, doesn't it all just seem a little arbitrary?
I've often wondered if it would be possible to create something actually interesting using a genetic algorithm operating on initally random data. I wonder if a genetic algorithm could be used to re-hash all of those random statements into something that actually has an intelligent flow to it. Maybe I should patent it. :)
It seems doubtful to me that either ATI or nVidia will open source their drivers any time in the imaginable future. It seems very likely to me that the driver implementation would be tied extremely closely to the implementation of the hardware, and I don't think these capitalistic giants are prepared to give away any trade secrets at this point. We'll see how it all plays out, though. Should be interesting.
Run a Google search for "external hard drive case" and buy MediaWiper. Piece of cake.