Now I'm not exactly fluent in European geography, but isn't the Autobahn in Germany and NOT the UK?? Or am I incorect in thinking that the UK is an island?
Or, Maybe the NSA is having a hard time keeping up with these new CPUs and they can't process all the information about us that they want to. So really this is just a big ploy for us to install VMWare and/really/ have things slow to a creep... And hell, what's better than one instance of VMWare running... two or three!!! hell yeah!!
Now, does Linux's SMP still do silly things with the cache on these chips? I recall that the kernel would entirely disable the cache on both chips (which made pIIIs into Celerons (effectivly)). It's nice to see some alternatives for dual CPU machines though.
I agree that busses are more effecient/economic/etc., they are not always the answer that one seeks. For example, around campus (U of Florida) and most of the town, I can ride the bus free by flashing my student ID. The busses run routes all throughout the major parts of town (mall, grocery stores, etc), to most of the local apartments, and even provide late-night service on the weekend towards the downtown area (where all the clubs/bars are).
But If I want to go visit my family (about 150 miles south) or friends at local colleges, I cant just hop a bus and go see them. It's just not convienient. While bus service/is/ available (grayhound, et.al), it's still fairly pricey enough that my [high-gas-milage] car is more economical. Plus, It's a hassle to have to wait for a bus. I want to be able to leave at my leisure and take a break when I feel so inclined.
I'm just saying that a car that could chauffeur me to my destinations so that I could avoid the stress/bore of driving and get to my destination while doing things that more efficiently make use of my time. I could do homework, write some GPLed code, etc.
I'm just saying that I would enjoy this technology.
-Andy
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Minidisc is a newer technology than the CD too. While I'm sure that now it would be readily plausible for a portable CD player to implement compression, at the time that the CD standard was developed it was not DUE TO battery consuption.
-Andy
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Yeah but do you remember the battery life of portable CD players from yesteryear. I remember my brother had one that took 4 AA batteries and still only lasted a few hours. Now you can pop in 2 (probably less) and get tons of playtime....
Even though the DSP may have been there it would have made the player too power-hungry.
-Andy
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Yes... I recall that... it was was about 4-5 years ago. MS gave Apple 75 Million. Personally, I think BillG just likes having Macs around. Maybe be needs something to be the butt of his jokes. I dunno.
I was kinda thinking the same thing... let's just hope there is at least one of two options available:
1.) the ability to d/l the database into some proggy that can be run offline ( a gps / map interface would be really nice too.) [ Which brings up the interesting topic of position location via nearest Access Point. Similar to how they navigate boats via FM radio (when they have to... before GPS). Just have all of those AP submit a PRECISE long/lat. Then your PC could identify what networks are around, do some nice trig. and BAM... you know where you are!!]
2.) the ability to check the info with a net enabled cell phone.
I would absolutely/love/ to see self-driving vehicles... I would definately pay an extra 5k for a car that could drive itself (perhaps more if it could get gas and an oil change/maintenance by itself). Driving long distances, or being stuck in traffic just plain sucks. I personally don't see this technology coming to light in the near future, but damn.... I REALLY want it bad!!!
I agree. I think it'd be more likely that AMD would license technology from Transmeta than they would to buy them out. It'd probably be cheaper and they'd still get most of the same IP.
I grew up in Melbourne Beach, FL, which is 30 miles south of Kennedy Space Center. When the shuttle is launched, it can clearly be seen (and heard) from my backyard. It was typical school tradition to go outside for the launches (hell, the school was named Gemini Elementary). I remember standing outside on that cold february day and watching (and hearing) the shuttle explode. I remember the teachers standing there, not knowing what to say... I remember the principal announcing over the intercom (after we were back inside) that a 'terrible tragidy' had just occurred.
I remember the jokes that were made for weeks afterward about people finding parts of the shuttle washed up on the ocean. I feel that this event had a dramatic cost on the lives of americans, especially those in my community. Most of my parents' friends worked for Harris, or Martin-Marrietta, or Northerp-Grummon, or NASA.
I imagine in some alternate deminsion where this hadn't happened, things would be much different.
As a computer engineer, I don't see why this wouldn't be possible. A similar concept is "orangePC" cards for Macs which allow them to run Windows. They're basically ix86 chips (plus a few other things). You'd just need a chip and some ram )and a few other things) on PCI card and have software for your OS that will pump java bytecode back and forth with a way to interpret the data coming back from the card.
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Now I'm not exactly fluent in European geography, but isn't the Autobahn in Germany and NOT the UK?? Or am I incorect in thinking that the UK is an island?
Just a thought.
-Andy
Or, Maybe the NSA is having a hard time keeping up with these new CPUs and they can't process all the information about us that they want to. So really this is just a big ploy for us to install VMWare and /really/ have things slow to a creep... And hell, what's better than one instance of VMWare running... two or three!!! hell yeah!!
-Andy
Power down, turbo!
"Imagine a GOVERNMENT doing something..." he wasn't talking about non-profit orgs. He's talking about the GOVERNEMNT of Brazil.
-Andy
Now, does Linux's SMP still do silly things with the cache on these chips? I recall that the kernel would entirely disable the cache on both chips (which made pIIIs into Celerons (effectivly)). It's nice to see some alternatives for dual CPU machines though.
I agree that busses are more effecient/economic/etc., they are not always the answer that one seeks. For example, around campus (U of Florida) and most of the town, I can ride the bus free by flashing my student ID. The busses run routes all throughout the major parts of town (mall, grocery stores, etc), to most of the local apartments, and even provide late-night service on the weekend towards the downtown area (where all the clubs/bars are).
/is/ available (grayhound, et.al), it's still fairly pricey enough that my [high-gas-milage] car is more economical. Plus, It's a hassle to have to wait for a bus. I want to be able to leave at my leisure and take a break when I feel so inclined.
But If I want to go visit my family (about 150 miles south) or friends at local colleges, I cant just hop a bus and go see them. It's just not convienient. While bus service
I'm just saying that a car that could chauffeur me to my destinations so that I could avoid the stress/bore of driving and get to my destination while doing things that more efficiently make use of my time. I could do homework, write some GPLed code, etc.
I'm just saying that I would enjoy this technology.
-Andy
Minidisc is a newer technology than the CD too. While I'm sure that now it would be readily plausible for a portable CD player to implement compression, at the time that the CD standard was developed it was not DUE TO battery consuption.
-Andy
Yeah but do you remember the battery life of portable CD players from yesteryear. I remember my brother had one that took 4 AA batteries and still only lasted a few hours. Now you can pop in 2 (probably less) and get tons of playtime....
Even though the DSP may have been there it would have made the player too power-hungry.
-Andy
Yes... I recall that... it was was about 4-5 years ago. MS gave Apple 75 Million. Personally, I think BillG just likes having Macs around. Maybe be needs something to be the butt of his jokes. I dunno.
-andy
Agreed... I guess Dr. Seuss (sp?) is good enough to count as an american icon... or something... odd though.. very odd...
WhyDNA? -> "Y"DNA -> ydnA -> Andy
kinda like 'WhyNot?' for tony, etc.
-Andy =)
I was kinda thinking the same thing... let's just hope there is at least one of two options available:
1.) the ability to d/l the database into some proggy that can be run offline ( a gps / map interface would be really nice too.) [ Which brings up the interesting topic of position location via nearest Access Point. Similar to how they navigate boats via FM radio (when they have to... before GPS). Just have all of those AP submit a PRECISE long/lat. Then your PC could identify what networks are around, do some nice trig. and BAM... you know where you are!!]
2.) the ability to check the info with a net enabled cell phone.
I would absolutely /love/ to see self-driving vehicles... I would definately pay an extra 5k for a car that could drive itself (perhaps more if it could get gas and an oil change/maintenance by itself). Driving long distances, or being stuck in traffic just plain sucks. I personally don't see this technology coming to light in the near future, but damn.... I REALLY want it bad!!!
-Andy
I agree. I think it'd be more likely that AMD would license technology from Transmeta than they would to buy them out. It'd probably be cheaper and they'd still get most of the same IP.
-Andy
Damn, that's gotta be the lowest UID i've seen around here in quite some time... >=)
-Andy
Didn't Discovery come After Challenger.. I think they're in alphabetical order (no B, two E's).
Atlantis
Challenger
Discovery
Enterprise
Endeavor
-Andy
like, duh!
that looks almost like a One-Time-Password =)
I grew up in Melbourne Beach, FL, which is 30 miles south of Kennedy Space Center. When the shuttle is launched, it can clearly be seen (and heard) from my backyard. It was typical school tradition to go outside for the launches (hell, the school was named Gemini Elementary). I remember standing outside on that cold february day and watching (and hearing) the shuttle explode. I remember the teachers standing there, not knowing what to say... I remember the principal announcing over the intercom (after we were back inside) that a 'terrible tragidy' had just occurred.
I remember the jokes that were made for weeks afterward about people finding parts of the shuttle washed up on the ocean. I feel that this event had a dramatic cost on the lives of americans, especially those in my community. Most of my parents' friends worked for Harris, or Martin-Marrietta, or Northerp-Grummon, or NASA.
I imagine in some alternate deminsion where this hadn't happened, things would be much different.
-Andy
go here http://www.sun.com/solaris/binaries/
it's $75 for the cost of the media plus shipping and handling...
-andy
Sun was handing out copies at ALS in october. It was like a 6-disc set. Pretty nice... I'd imagine that it's free (or perhaps s&h only...)
-andy
GTK-- available at gtkmm.sourceforge.net. It's a C++ version of GTK+. 'nuff said.
=)
-Andy
http://www.barryfr.supanet.com/songbook.html
As a computer engineer, I don't see why this wouldn't be possible. A similar concept is "orangePC" cards for Macs which allow them to run Windows. They're basically ix86 chips (plus a few other things). You'd just need a chip and some ram )and a few other things) on PCI card and have software for your OS that will pump java bytecode back and forth with a way to interpret the data coming back from the card.
It's kinda like everything then...
Linux has this same setup also. Specifying the max amount of ram a user can use, etc. It works but I don't think it's what the original poster needs.