You've followed through! My next video card purchase won't be for a while, so there's a good change that free drivers will be available, and you just got yourself a customer!
I know everyone was skeptical when this was announced some months ago. I though "well, it could happen." The silence on the issue lately made me think I had spoken too soon. I was beginning to wonder where the specs were. Well, here they are.
Very good point. Java code, written properly, can be as fast as anything.
Anyone ever seen Jake? It's the open source Quake II engine translated into Java (from C++); it beats the Quake II engine in benchmarks.
While I usually don't like Java apps very much, I think it makes sense in this case for two reasons:
1) Most mobile developers already use Java, as it is the most prevalent mobile language (Java ME). I have dozens of games and apps on my cell phone, and they are all written in Java.
2) While I have been trying to find out more info on what CPU this custom Java VM is for, I will assume it is ARM. There is a good video that explains to android software stack here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6Ju0xhUW8
Basically, you have the linux kernel. On top of that, you have the core operating system libraries, like graphics (2D, 3D compositing), data storage (SQLite), etc. These are all written in C/C++. This is where the heavy lifing occurs. Finally, you have the custom Java VM and all the libraries you get to work with. Most of these libraries are just wrappers to the C libraries. So, you get the speed and memory size of a lower level language with all the simplicity of Java. And, like they mentioned, this VM is customized for mobile applications, and presumably for this software stack in particular.
I think this looks like a fantastic platform to work with. Lots of power, lots of flexibility, and extremely simple to get going. Check out all 3 parts of the video I linked to above. There is even a video of android running quake somewhere!
This really is ridiculous. They are basically saying "Hey look, someone sells a product designed to do a lot of parallel math, quickly! Lets patent using that product for its intended purpose!"
In the spirit of this, I would like to take this moment to announce my new patent, which is currently pending approval. My patent is entitled "A method of performing specific procedures by invoking the use of devices designed to carry out those procedures." Now I can sue anyone who uses a product. Well, I have to go book my plane ticket to Texas, see you later!
Yes, this method is called grey-listing. We used it at an ISP that I used to work for. It cut out mail load from 30000 messages per day to about 500. We gave people the option to disable it, but few did, because it worked so well and no one ever mentioned any missing emails.
Most e-mail servers resend within 15 minutes (usually like 5-10), so it doesn't cause for much delay. Besides, once an e-mail made it through, we would simply allow all future emails from the same sender to the same recipient for up to 7 days from the last successful mail. Thus, if you frequently e-mailed someone, the greylist was completely transparent to you.
It really is quite a successful method, but only until spammers start resending messages.
While this approach isn't what the FOSS community would like, it at least provides a possible method of closed and open sourced software to coexist.
Take drivers for example. Since the linux kernel will never have a stable internal API, it becomes impossible for a closed-source vendor to simply write a driver and then leave it at that, like in Windows. The vendor must continue to update the driver basically forever, as the internal structure of the kernel continues to change.
Using the intel open-source-kernel-module-communicating-with-binar y-blob method allows the vendor to basically stabalize a small part of the kernel, since it will continue to be updated by the FOSS community as the kernel evolves. Development on the binary blob can be discontinued, and it will still work years down the line.
It's not perfect, but at least it's a solution.
Maybe they don't realise that Google's engine is theirs. It belongs to them, they made it. There is no right to be on the list at all. If google wants to, they can put anybody anywhere they want. They could put a page to the bottom manually just for not liking someone if they wanted to. This would hurt their credibility, and thus themselves, so they won't. But they can if they want to.
I don't get the obsession some people here have with privacy. You act like your grocery list is a national secret. You buy cereal? Guess what, so do a hundred million other people! You like song X and someone else knows - who cares? What possible harm can they do to you by profiling your music taste?
It seems on the one side, people are having wet dreams about the digital home, when every appliance is connected to the internet, and knows what you want it to do, and services are customized to you. On the other side, every time something tracks some trivial piece of information about your life everyone here freaks out. Get over it. You aren't important, and if you think you or your data are anything but a statistic you are deluding yourself. They aren't tracking anything but commercial data, and I would rather see ads for something I may be interested in rather than online dating services, casinos, and viagra. STFU already.
Its not a real X button. It's a GIF of an X button, because when I see them, they are in the default WinXP theme, but I use classic! So they have nothing to do with the WM, they are simply links that do the same thing as clicking an "agree" button on a website somewhere.
I think BitTorrent is the best solution for this type of thing.
NBC could set up a network of a couple hundred seeding computers that have every file NBC offers. Then it would truly be on demand, since you would always get a healthy torrent, but lots of the bandwidth would come from other downloaders, saving NBC money. The seed network could just require password login. Also, the files should last a few days, since these are old movies, nor new releases.
I bet if I had my OS showing me the ads all day long, I would FINALLY realise that I need LavaLife to spice up my love life. Hotmail just isn't enough.
They don't tell others this information for financial reasons. Others tell Google what they have to sell, and Google passes that on to the relevant people.
What use would it be if google told some company that "user 823702374 likes to browse sites about linux, computer hardware, and tech news, so advertise there." A company selling some sort of computer technology should be able to figure out on its own that putting ads on travel sites won't do much good.
Yes, I know not everyone overclocks, but with chips that clock as easy as the A64's, you almost have to consider it. For example, the 3200+ came out as second place for performance/$ in every test, beat only by the 3000+. However, my 3200+ is currently running stable and cool at 2.6 Ghz and has a 512K cache.
This puts it between the 4000+ and the FX-55. And my OC is very typical. As a matter of fact, it is low. Just about any venice 3200+ will hit that speed easily, and many will reach 2.7+Ghz. This puts the peformance/$ WAY up there.
The 3000+ would probably also beat it. For some reason when I purchased my CPU, I forgot that I could run my RAM on dividers, so I ordered the 3200+ for its higher multiplier, which is completely useless with any modern motherboard, since RAM speed and CPU speed are independant of each other.
So basically, I am saying get a 3000+, since it is the best chip out there for for performance/$, and almost matches the top of the heap for raw performance as well.
I know what you mean. I don't even own a phone. I love the look on people's faces when they ask me what my phone number is and I say I don't have one...
Sure, there will be unportected bits transfered... From the decoder chip inside the TV to the CRT Ray gun, or LCD controller, or whatever. Unless you want to open your TV and solder leads on to rip these bits, it seems pretty secure to me.
You'd be much better off trying to break the encryption, which will probably happen.
So, according to the video, Sparkle is an editor for Avalon's editor. So, when websites start using this, does that mean that only Vista machines will be able to see them?
Proably because switching to OpenOffice will require enough people to relearn or do things they have always done differently. If they change the OS on them too, it is too much at once. Let them get used to OO first, then change the OS.
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You've followed through! My next video card purchase won't be for a while, so there's a good change that free drivers will be available, and you just got yourself a customer!
I know everyone was skeptical when this was announced some months ago. I though "well, it could happen." The silence on the issue lately made me think I had spoken too soon. I was beginning to wonder where the specs were. Well, here they are.
Thank you ATI!
He said he has a HDTV tuner. I believe that means he is catching digital signals, not analogue.
Very good point. Java code, written properly, can be as fast as anything. Anyone ever seen Jake? It's the open source Quake II engine translated into Java (from C++); it beats the Quake II engine in benchmarks.
While I usually don't like Java apps very much, I think it makes sense in this case for two reasons:
1) Most mobile developers already use Java, as it is the most prevalent mobile language (Java ME). I have dozens of games and apps on my cell phone, and they are all written in Java.
2) While I have been trying to find out more info on what CPU this custom Java VM is for, I will assume it is ARM. There is a good video that explains to android software stack here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm6Ju0xhUW8
Basically, you have the linux kernel. On top of that, you have the core operating system libraries, like graphics (2D, 3D compositing), data storage (SQLite), etc. These are all written in C/C++. This is where the heavy lifing occurs. Finally, you have the custom Java VM and all the libraries you get to work with. Most of these libraries are just wrappers to the C libraries. So, you get the speed and memory size of a lower level language with all the simplicity of Java. And, like they mentioned, this VM is customized for mobile applications, and presumably for this software stack in particular.
I think this looks like a fantastic platform to work with. Lots of power, lots of flexibility, and extremely simple to get going. Check out all 3 parts of the video I linked to above. There is even a video of android running quake somewhere!
This really is ridiculous. They are basically saying "Hey look, someone sells a product designed to do a lot of parallel math, quickly! Lets patent using that product for its intended purpose!"
In the spirit of this, I would like to take this moment to announce my new patent, which is currently pending approval. My patent is entitled "A method of performing specific procedures by invoking the use of devices designed to carry out those procedures." Now I can sue anyone who uses a product. Well, I have to go book my plane ticket to Texas, see you later!
Yes, this method is called grey-listing. We used it at an ISP that I used to work for. It cut out mail load from 30000 messages per day to about 500. We gave people the option to disable it, but few did, because it worked so well and no one ever mentioned any missing emails.
Most e-mail servers resend within 15 minutes (usually like 5-10), so it doesn't cause for much delay. Besides, once an e-mail made it through, we would simply allow all future emails from the same sender to the same recipient for up to 7 days from the last successful mail. Thus, if you frequently e-mailed someone, the greylist was completely transparent to you.
It really is quite a successful method, but only until spammers start resending messages.
While this approach isn't what the FOSS community would like, it at least provides a possible method of closed and open sourced software to coexist. Take drivers for example. Since the linux kernel will never have a stable internal API, it becomes impossible for a closed-source vendor to simply write a driver and then leave it at that, like in Windows. The vendor must continue to update the driver basically forever, as the internal structure of the kernel continues to change. Using the intel open-source-kernel-module-communicating-with-binar y-blob method allows the vendor to basically stabalize a small part of the kernel, since it will continue to be updated by the FOSS community as the kernel evolves. Development on the binary blob can be discontinued, and it will still work years down the line.
It's not perfect, but at least it's a solution.
That may be true, but if it looks good in the Aero UI, it should look good in an Aero-skinned Xgl/Compiz window as well!
If I was google, I would permanently ban them.
If he had purchased all those songs legally, and eliminated all of his own copies upon selling the iPod, it should be legal.
oooooooo, creepy. We posted a comment at the exact same time, with the exact same title, basically saying the same thing.
get out of my brain!
I don't get the obsession some people here have with privacy. You act like your grocery list is a national secret. You buy cereal? Guess what, so do a hundred million other people! You like song X and someone else knows - who cares? What possible harm can they do to you by profiling your music taste?
It seems on the one side, people are having wet dreams about the digital home, when every appliance is connected to the internet, and knows what you want it to do, and services are customized to you. On the other side, every time something tracks some trivial piece of information about your life everyone here freaks out. Get over it. You aren't important, and if you think you or your data are anything but a statistic you are deluding yourself. They aren't tracking anything but commercial data, and I would rather see ads for something I may be interested in rather than online dating services, casinos, and viagra. STFU already.
Hey island buddy!
Uvic? I am.
Its not a real X button. It's a GIF of an X button, because when I see them, they are in the default WinXP theme, but I use classic! So they have nothing to do with the WM, they are simply links that do the same thing as clicking an "agree" button on a website somewhere.
I think BitTorrent is the best solution for this type of thing.
NBC could set up a network of a couple hundred seeding computers that have every file NBC offers. Then it would truly be on demand, since you would always get a healthy torrent, but lots of the bandwidth would come from other downloaders, saving NBC money. The seed network could just require password login. Also, the files should last a few days, since these are old movies, nor new releases.
I bet if I had my OS showing me the ads all day long, I would FINALLY realise that I need LavaLife to spice up my love life. Hotmail just isn't enough.
Do you know of a good TextPad like editor for linux? I love textpad, but I really miss a good editor when I'm on my linux machine. thanks
They don't tell others this information for financial reasons. Others tell Google what they have to sell, and Google passes that on to the relevant people.
What use would it be if google told some company that "user 823702374 likes to browse sites about linux, computer hardware, and tech news, so advertise there." A company selling some sort of computer technology should be able to figure out on its own that putting ads on travel sites won't do much good.
They left out overclockability
Yes, I know not everyone overclocks, but with chips that clock as easy as the A64's, you almost have to consider it. For example, the 3200+ came out as second place for performance/$ in every test, beat only by the 3000+. However, my 3200+ is currently running stable and cool at 2.6 Ghz and has a 512K cache.
This puts it between the 4000+ and the FX-55. And my OC is very typical. As a matter of fact, it is low. Just about any venice 3200+ will hit that speed easily, and many will reach 2.7+Ghz. This puts the peformance/$ WAY up there.
The 3000+ would probably also beat it. For some reason when I purchased my CPU, I forgot that I could run my RAM on dividers, so I ordered the 3200+ for its higher multiplier, which is completely useless with any modern motherboard, since RAM speed and CPU speed are independant of each other.
So basically, I am saying get a 3000+, since it is the best chip out there for for performance/$, and almost matches the top of the heap for raw performance as well.
Heh heh,
I know what you mean. I don't even own a phone. I love the look on people's faces when they ask me what my phone number is and I say I don't have one...
Sure, there will be unportected bits transfered... From the decoder chip inside the TV to the CRT Ray gun, or LCD controller, or whatever. Unless you want to open your TV and solder leads on to rip these bits, it seems pretty secure to me. You'd be much better off trying to break the encryption, which will probably happen.
I meant avalon's language
So, according to the video, Sparkle is an editor for Avalon's editor. So, when websites start using this, does that mean that only Vista machines will be able to see them?
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makes sense to me.