... when Rambus was still booming, together with the new (at the time) P4 chips by Intel, they were somewhat faster than the rest, but a lot more expensive.
I actually remember people being dissapointed that P4 "requires" (this is how it was marketed) Rambus memory to show its full potential, and pretty much avoided Rambus like the plague for its proprietary nature and the hefty price.
And of course in time Rambus lost its speed advantage as well, which drove it into non-existence.
Makes me wonder if the additional lowering of the prices by the DDR manifacturers was required and did it matter for driving Rambus out of the market. It seemed a lame duck from day 1.
Microsoft has real competition, forcing them to develop better, more competitive software. Downside?
What makes you think software-as-a-service is actually better?
The key advantages to software as a service is not for the customers, it's for the software companies.
There are three major reasons Microsoft wants to embrace software as a service so fast:
1. the vendor stays in control of usage; 2. there's no possibility to pirate a service; 3. A product you sell as a license that lasts forever (too many people happy with old Windows and Office?), a service you bill periodically (well here's a solution!)
Of course if you provide a free service there's no point in pirating it, but it'll be a choice between getting spied upon your activites (constant connection with the mothership for anything you do) and being served ads; or paying monthly/yearly for service, in the end paying a lot more than you're willing to.
You can be sure they'll make you depend on Windows Updates and online connectivity and promptly start cutting "service" support for older versions of their products to make people move on.
I'm not an MS hater, and this is not a MS hate post. It's just how the entire business is moving: the DRM, the dependency of network connectivity and so on. Businesses will always want more money and more control, it's just a part of the business.
Seems that you are running LiveCD install disk. In this case, use alternative version with old-skul text installer and then propapbly all will be fine.
Thanks I'll try. Thing is it locks up after it boots to desktop (wallpaper shows, cursor shows, moves) and freezes there, not at the setup screen.
for just £209 ($390)... too expensive, you can buy a full PC for this sort of money.
I plain old PC is always more valuable than a crippled "thin client". It uses easy to service commodity parts, can be easily found for $390 or less, and performs a lot more tasks than a thin client can.
So you can fit it in a wall socket. Is this what will make your "data driven business" highly efficient, as they claim?
I can already see businesses running, tripping over themselves to go buy it, and put it in their wall sockets.
Sony's watching this, and the reaction of the people to the PS3 price and features.
You can bet they're scrambling right now and PS3 might turn out pretty different from what was presented at E3, at the hope to not screw it up. Thing is, attempting to not screw it up is how they screw it up all the time.
I've at least a dozen of original Ubuntu 5.04 CD-s over I've been giving to friends, family and so on.
I was pretty excited since this is the first Linux distro that I could just boot and it gives me internet connectivity, nice true color desktop, firefox, irc and so on and so on right out of the box, without me touching anything.
It was relatively intuitive to use too.
Now however I downloaded the 6.06 ISO and it won't even run here anymore. It just run it, it shows the cursor and get stuck there forever.
This is vigilante justice, plain and simple. I don't think the proportionalities match here.
Dude, he prpmised him a working laptop, but gave him a broken laptop with his legs fetish and gay porn collection.
In the real world stupid animals are not protected under "anti-vigilante" principles, this is why homo sapiens exists. Because the stupid ones died.
What you're saying is we gotta protect those mofos and even pat them on their head and say "there, there". This is why the modern world is growing full of stupid assholes; everyone's protecting them and hiding behind the non-existant "justice".
You only get justice (from your viewpoint) if you have an army of lawyers and money to pay them. Otherwise what you get is a hope your foe goes in hell after his death.
Extortion is basically what it boils down to; "Amir, if you want to refund my money you know where to contact me, and this page will disappear forever."
Oh shit, good thing Mr. Morale is here to lecture us about extortion.
The guy who bought the laptop was lied about the machine specs and received a non-working hardware versus a promise for a working hardware. He requested his money back *repeatedly* over a long period of time.
That's good money wasted on some liar schmuck who thinks screwing people over the Internet is fun. Normally, the buyer decides to return the favor.
What would you do if you're screwed out of good $600 and all you receive is a pile of wasted hardware and a disk full of funny content. Use whatever you got for your money, of course.
Maybe he's biased against.net because it's an interpreted language (like Java)?.NET is not an interpreted language, it's JIT compile language: first compiled to a common opcode format, then compiled to machine code, and the common runtime executes that directly as a binary code.
Java also isn't interpreted, except for small mobile devices and the very old Java runtimes.
In fact, I believe it's an oddity of PHP that it needs add-ons in order to do this, and I think the next version of PHP will have fixed this.
That's one of Zend's main revenue sources. They developed PHP, they developed the accelerator. But they sell the accelerator and offer PHP free with sources as a lure.
What I'm saying is, no, it won't be fixed in the next version of PHP.
That this even is being asked illustrates a very serious problem in this country. We are a nation of slobs and lazy asses.
I think USA is a nation of people, first and foremost. People don't produce more by spending more time on work. They produce more by having proper vacation, proper breaks and less stress on their workplace.
So the question is far more complicated than it appears.
JavaScript is not only turing-complete, but also a very powerful language.
OMG it's turing-complete! Let's use it to render 3D movies!
This is the most tired and misunderstood argument to use: any general purpose modern language is turing-complete.
Let's patch our way by abusing the fact it's turing-complete! Runtime features don't matter! Filesize don't matter and the fact you may need a super-computer don't matter too!
These guys may be gambling on being able to drag this case out to SCO's epic proportions
How easily we trust the news today.
What if I tell you that there's no "case", Morfik doesn't threaten Google with case, Morfik didn't even mention to have claims against Google's kit, and it's all a speculation created by an overly eager reporter who tried to read between the lines in one of Morfik's press releases?
Google are always on the lookout for sources of meta information about sites they search. Is it possible that the toolkit snaffles information from the compilation environment and builds it into the generated code?
Where's your tinfoil hat:)
If this was the case we'd know about it: the "compiled" code it pretty easy to open and read (even if it's still a JS spaghetti mess of a code). No info can be hidden inside.
They do it for two reasons:
1. PR: after few screw ups, like the google's China service, google's "omg ms doesn't put us default in ie7" rants and so on, they needed a bit of a good image in the community to restore they non-evil status
2. they get thousands of free betatesters world-wide to help them point out flaws in their code, which then they'll use in THEIR OWN applications.
They "own" the innovation? Some people have a really distorted view of the intent and philosophy of so-called Intellectual Property.
You can imagine how it went: google released the kit, Morfik read up on it, and realizsed he's screwed, so he went "legal" on the matter.
Risk is part of the business. It sure took a lot of time to develop his JS synthesis compilers, and it's terribly frustrating to see a competitor release a free alternative.
But here's the thing: if the most valuable thing in your product is an "idea" (the idea of roughly translating languages in JS spaghetti code) instead of the product itself, you'll be screwed sooner or later anyways.
Synthesis is a bridge for C++/Java/C# developers to get coding without learning the technology around "AJAX". It has no value to someone experienced in AJAX.
All of it: classes, typing, interfaces: it's all fake, and impossible to enforce in the runtime, since the runtime doesn't support it (save me the crap about Turing complete since I'm talking practical speed of execution here). So if the compiler doesn't catch it, you're basically screwed.
These Javascript compiler products are increasingly necessary for companies like Google, with the high use of Ajax on today's Web and the associated complexity of programming in Javascript.
There's no associated complexity with programming in JavaScript. There's lack of progress in the language (still no native support of ECMA4 in browser, shame that *Flash* comes with ECMA4 implementation in just two months, before browsers do).
JS synthesis is a hack anyway. I've seen the code produced by such technologies, and it's crap. You trust your application's well being to the compiler authors with the hope they update it when it breaks in the latest and greatest browser out there.
The correct way to me is upgrading the JavaScript language itself, and until then, using native JS libraries that can be readily reviewed and edited.
JS as a language isn't so primitive as to require a Java or C++ compiler to write good and clean code for it.
Don't you think just saying "sigh" and smiling at the look of big corporations spreading trojans in music entertainment disks is kinda lethargic?
There guys are just pissed off and doing what they thing they should do. Not defending them nor condemning them. But when you see things take in a radically bad direction and noone doing anything serious to correct it, you just gotta expect this "bad energy" to burst from somewhere.
World is not black and white. You can't take "sides". This is not picking which dress to wear for the restaurant tonight.
Truth is Earth has it's natural cycles, but our sheer numbers as species and our ability to conspire (not in the tinfoil-hat sense, but the organisational sense) cause fast effects on the world's climate, biological diversity and pollution.
If you deny either effect and refuse to see nature has its course OR the mass amount of activity we have, this is just looking for excuses and ignoring reality.
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... when Rambus was still booming, together with the new (at the time) P4 chips by Intel, they were somewhat faster than the rest, but a lot more expensive.
I actually remember people being dissapointed that P4 "requires" (this is how it was marketed) Rambus memory to show its full potential, and pretty much avoided Rambus like the plague for its proprietary nature and the hefty price.
And of course in time Rambus lost its speed advantage as well, which drove it into non-existence.
Makes me wonder if the additional lowering of the prices by the DDR manifacturers was required and did it matter for driving Rambus out of the market. It seemed a lame duck from day 1.
The more open source products get used, the more their authors will realize that it's not enough to be l33t to write a secure product.
It will also require tough and down-to-the-ground tough work such as researching the worms out there and patching the product out.
Another thing is: you can never "fix" the user, there will always be the guys to run attached executables that promise hot porn and FREE MONY!.
Microsoft has real competition, forcing them to develop better, more competitive software. Downside?
What makes you think software-as-a-service is actually better?
The key advantages to software as a service is not for the customers, it's for the software companies.
There are three major reasons Microsoft wants to embrace software as a service so fast:
1. the vendor stays in control of usage;
2. there's no possibility to pirate a service;
3. A product you sell as a license that lasts forever (too many people happy with old Windows and Office?), a service you bill periodically (well here's a solution!)
Of course if you provide a free service there's no point in pirating it, but it'll be a choice between getting spied upon your activites (constant connection with the mothership for anything you do) and being served ads; or paying monthly/yearly for service, in the end paying a lot more than you're willing to.
You can be sure they'll make you depend on Windows Updates and online connectivity and promptly start cutting "service" support for older versions of their products to make people move on.
I'm not an MS hater, and this is not a MS hate post. It's just how the entire business is moving: the DRM, the dependency of network connectivity and so on. Businesses will always want more money and more control, it's just a part of the business.
Seems that you are running LiveCD install disk. In this case, use alternative version with old-skul text installer and then propapbly all will be fine.
Thanks I'll try. Thing is it locks up after it boots to desktop (wallpaper shows, cursor shows, moves) and freezes there, not at the setup screen.
for just £209 ($390) ... too expensive, you can buy a full PC for this sort of money.
I plain old PC is always more valuable than a crippled "thin client". It uses easy to service commodity parts, can be easily found for $390 or less, and performs a lot more tasks than a thin client can.
So you can fit it in a wall socket. Is this what will make your "data driven business" highly efficient, as they claim?
I can already see businesses running, tripping over themselves to go buy it, and put it in their wall sockets.
Sony believes that the PS3 is too inexpensive and that people will line up to buy it because "Blu-Ray is better then sex."
Is that an actual quote in the quotes up there? I mean as something a Sony rep said?
If so, things are far more ridiculous that I could ever imagine.
Personally, I think the DS Lite is the most impressive gadget on that list, but it looks like the critics are all about the Wii.
;)
Yup, I bet Nintendo is pretty mad at Nintendo for stealing their award this year
It's far far too late in the development cycle for Sony to make major changes to the PS3.
Won't be the first time they make changes too late, no?
Sony's watching this, and the reaction of the people to the PS3 price and features.
You can bet they're scrambling right now and PS3 might turn out pretty different from what was presented at E3, at the hope to not screw it up. Thing is, attempting to not screw it up is how they screw it up all the time.
I've at least a dozen of original Ubuntu 5.04 CD-s over I've been giving to friends, family and so on.
:(
I was pretty excited since this is the first Linux distro that I could just boot and it gives me internet connectivity, nice true color desktop, firefox, irc and so on and so on right out of the box, without me touching anything.
It was relatively intuitive to use too.
Now however I downloaded the 6.06 ISO and it won't even run here anymore. It just run it, it shows the cursor and get stuck there forever.
I hope the next releases work better
(my system btw: Celeron 3GHz, 1GB RAM, Audigy 2, GeForce 4MX)
This is vigilante justice, plain and simple. I don't think the proportionalities match here.
Dude, he prpmised him a working laptop, but gave him a broken laptop with his legs fetish and gay porn collection.
In the real world stupid animals are not protected under "anti-vigilante" principles, this is why homo sapiens exists. Because the stupid ones died.
What you're saying is we gotta protect those mofos and even pat them on their head and say "there, there". This is why the modern world is growing full of stupid assholes; everyone's protecting them and hiding behind the non-existant "justice".
You only get justice (from your viewpoint) if you have an army of lawyers and money to pay them. Otherwise what you get is a hope your foe goes in hell after his death.
Extortion is basically what it boils down to; "Amir, if you want to refund my money you know where to contact me, and this page will disappear forever."
Oh shit, good thing Mr. Morale is here to lecture us about extortion.
The guy who bought the laptop was lied about the machine specs and received a non-working hardware versus a promise for a working hardware. He requested his money back *repeatedly* over a long period of time.
That's good money wasted on some liar schmuck who thinks screwing people over the Internet is fun. Normally, the buyer decides to return the favor.
What would you do if you're screwed out of good $600 and all you receive is a pile of wasted hardware and a disk full of funny content. Use whatever you got for your money, of course.
Maybe he's biased against .net because it's an interpreted language (like Java)? .NET is not an interpreted language, it's JIT compile language: first compiled to a common opcode format, then compiled to machine code, and the common runtime executes that directly as a binary code.
Java also isn't interpreted, except for small mobile devices and the very old Java runtimes.
Too late. http://www.slimeland.com/raytrace/
Nice experiment. Nonetheless: needs an hour to render one 800x600 frame with.. a sphere.
On a super-computer of course it doesn't matter.
If you're a criminal, easy access to thousands worth of easy to sell hardware behind a glass is a dream come true.
In fact, I believe it's an oddity of PHP that it needs add-ons in order to do this, and I think the next version of PHP will have fixed this.
That's one of Zend's main revenue sources. They developed PHP, they developed the accelerator. But they sell the accelerator and offer PHP free with sources as a lure.
What I'm saying is, no, it won't be fixed in the next version of PHP.
All you said has been fixed in ECMA4. JS is just very old. We need to update it, not hack it.
Godo thing at least Flash 9 got the right idea.
That this even is being asked illustrates a very serious problem in this country. We are a nation of slobs and lazy asses.
I think USA is a nation of people, first and foremost. People don't produce more by spending more time on work. They produce more by having proper vacation, proper breaks and less stress on their workplace.
So the question is far more complicated than it appears.
JavaScript is not only turing-complete, but also a very powerful language.
OMG it's turing-complete! Let's use it to render 3D movies!
This is the most tired and misunderstood argument to use: any general purpose modern language is turing-complete.
Let's patch our way by abusing the fact it's turing-complete! Runtime features don't matter! Filesize don't matter and the fact you may need a super-computer don't matter too!
These guys may be gambling on being able to drag this case out to SCO's epic proportions
How easily we trust the news today.
What if I tell you that there's no "case", Morfik doesn't threaten Google with case, Morfik didn't even mention to have claims against Google's kit, and it's all a speculation created by an overly eager reporter who tried to read between the lines in one of Morfik's press releases?
Google are always on the lookout for sources of meta information about sites they search. Is it possible that the toolkit snaffles information from the compilation environment and builds it into the generated code?
:)
Where's your tinfoil hat
If this was the case we'd know about it: the "compiled" code it pretty easy to open and read (even if it's still a JS spaghetti mess of a code). No info can be hidden inside.
They do it for two reasons:
1. PR: after few screw ups, like the google's China service, google's "omg ms doesn't put us default in ie7" rants and so on, they needed a bit of a good image in the community to restore they non-evil status
2. they get thousands of free betatesters world-wide to help them point out flaws in their code, which then they'll use in THEIR OWN applications.
They "own" the innovation? Some people have a really distorted view of the intent and philosophy of so-called Intellectual Property.
You can imagine how it went: google released the kit, Morfik read up on it, and realizsed he's screwed, so he went "legal" on the matter.
Risk is part of the business. It sure took a lot of time to develop his JS synthesis compilers, and it's terribly frustrating to see a competitor release a free alternative.
But here's the thing: if the most valuable thing in your product is an "idea" (the idea of roughly translating languages in JS spaghetti code) instead of the product itself, you'll be screwed sooner or later anyways.
Synthesis is a bridge for C++/Java/C# developers to get coding without learning the technology around "AJAX". It has no value to someone experienced in AJAX.
All of it: classes, typing, interfaces: it's all fake, and impossible to enforce in the runtime, since the runtime doesn't support it (save me the crap about Turing complete since I'm talking practical speed of execution here). So if the compiler doesn't catch it, you're basically screwed.
These Javascript compiler products are increasingly necessary for companies like Google, with the high use of Ajax on today's Web and the associated complexity of programming in Javascript.
There's no associated complexity with programming in JavaScript. There's lack of progress in the language (still no native support of ECMA4 in browser, shame that *Flash* comes with ECMA4 implementation in just two months, before browsers do).
JS synthesis is a hack anyway. I've seen the code produced by such technologies, and it's crap. You trust your application's well being to the compiler authors with the hope they update it when it breaks in the latest and greatest browser out there.
The correct way to me is upgrading the JavaScript language itself, and until then, using native JS libraries that can be readily reviewed and edited.
JS as a language isn't so primitive as to require a Java or C++ compiler to write good and clean code for it.
To every action, reaction.
Don't you think just saying "sigh" and smiling at the look of big corporations spreading trojans in music entertainment disks is kinda lethargic?
There guys are just pissed off and doing what they thing they should do. Not defending them nor condemning them. But when you see things take in a radically bad direction and noone doing anything serious to correct it, you just gotta expect this "bad energy" to burst from somewhere.
This time, it's FSF.
I don't know exactly what side to take
World is not black and white. You can't take "sides". This is not picking which dress to wear for the restaurant tonight.
Truth is Earth has it's natural cycles, but our sheer numbers as species and our ability to conspire (not in the tinfoil-hat sense, but the organisational sense) cause fast effects on the world's climate, biological diversity and pollution.
If you deny either effect and refuse to see nature has its course OR the mass amount of activity we have, this is just looking for excuses and ignoring reality.