
Re: Not likely
Seems the Catholic church has a bit of a habit of paying for things it doesn't support.
[ for the impaired; thinking of the children here....]
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My tablet doesn't need one, but can use one. In fact, it uses the same one my desktop does.
Unlike my tablet, my desktop is a lionized TV when it doesn't have a keyboard.
Unlike my desktop, my tablet is quite functional without a keyboard; and even has an ad-hoc little keyboard emulator when I don't have a physical one handy...
After you have made a mess of things so badly and for so long, it would be nice if you just sat down and shut up. IE has been a menace pretty much from its inception until maybe a year or two ago. Its too early to go pointing fingers.
"Yes, we remember. We remember the past and its lessons, the past and its misfortunes, the past and its glories". Oh, and scratch the last bit.
Puts NT's lineage at about 34 years; or about 40 if you consider RSX as version1....
"RSX was a separate path at DEC and the progenitor more than anything of VMS that went to NT via Dave Cutler." — Gordon Bell, Vice President, Research and Development, Digital Equipment Corporation.
But being 40 is only a bad thing if your under 30. ...
I'm sorry that my astro-physics is weak. I kind of understand that you can make a spacecraft go by pressure from particles emitted by the sun. Does this work like garlic - a little is good, so more is better? Can we make some sort of sail that takes advantage of these events? One day to mars is pretty intriguing.... Or would it just blow teensy holes through the sail and leave us ejecting the horses to try to get home?
Paris, because I don't have a clue either.
Every day the sun should rise at 6:00, and set at 18:00, everywhere in the world.
There is no need to pretend that time elapses at some fixed period.
For people in the northern climates, this means that winter day-time clock would tick-tock faster during the day than the night, in order to fit a consistent number of tick-tocks into a significantly shorter time.
We can leave it to the pointy heads to make sure our little devices co-ordinate properly so buses will be on time, and planes won't bump into one another.
I prefer Pink Floyd to marching music....
ps: sherlock for his 7% solution
Too bad they couldn't have dropped a mars-rover type device on it as it passed by. I'm sure there are some horrendous difficulties, not the least the very low gravity, but a great chance to hitchhike around a bit, maybe look at its makeup, and see another part of the solar system.
Paris? The free ride obviously.
On at least my mac, if I try to execute anything of unknown provenance - for example from a download, attachment, ... or unarchived from such- it pops up a little nag window at me.
That doesn't put it to bed, since if you opened something who's handler had a peek inside and ran say a shell script, there is nothing you can do. I believe this is the vector of Office malware, for example. But, you install Office and the like, you take your chances. Does Adobe's software do something like this?
Are the Fine Researches suggesting that this thing is able to spoof the provenance, thus run without warning? If so, that is quite something; if not its like blaming your car because you ignored the oil light.
This was the real trick in the endless array of stupid windows tricks in the past. There were so many ways to get it to quietly execute blobs that the poor user didn't stand a chance.
It really is! Code written in many other languages goes stagnant over years of being ignored. Nobody can remember how it works if it doesn't require routine maintenance every few months. C++ has integrated mechanisms to ensure every bit of code requires constant touch up and frequent overhauls.
I recon that without C++, most of the regular programming work would have dried up, and we'd be forced to design new SCMs to keep ourselves employed.
It must be be bittersweet, to work so hard to make such a lush and fertile ground for these seedlings to grow so well, only to cut them down without enjoying the fruit of your labour. sigh.
It is analogous to western governments putting the boots to despots they had readily supported. These were the truest 'strategic alliances'.
Presumably, the smarmy little shits have optimized the pricing models for the Western market. Decreasing the price won't generate a useful increase in consumption, but increasing the price will cause a harmful reduction.
A regional pricing model - where the item cost is priced differently around the world - gives rise to a grey market, where goods are purchased in the lower cost areas then transported for resale to higher cost areas.
So, what does that leave? Set the prices uniformly low around the world to increase the consumption in the lower cost areas. The likely effect is to shape the product to the tastes of the market you are attempting to attract, which some Westerners might be a little put off by.
Before long, that is an inevitable consequence, as manufactures switch to tailoring products to the new dominant markets, leaving the west to put up with the tastes of the rest.
I think that 200 * mesi-protocol-latency as a potential memory latency might be a stopper here; that is about the dram speed of an ibm/xt. The expected could be much lower if everyone rewrites their software to suit a rather brain dead architecture.
At 100x memory latency, it is crouching in the field that that original virtual memory architects worked in; their solution was to surrender to the OS the scheduling of memory, and render in the hardware the necessary address translation to make it work.
The same thinking can be applied, but at the granularity of cache lines - let the OS be responsible for scheduling the cache, and implement a very hi speed link under program control to perform it. In this, the shared and remote memory becomes more like a storage device; and the machines really operate on local cache-like RAM.
With this, you don't need a massive re-implementation of all the software in the world to take good control of these resources. You will want to pay alot more attention to locality of reference, however. an sparsely addressed list will chug along at 8086 speeds.....
What this doesn't do is permit a single app [ MIMD ] to span the entire processor set; rather you have to be content with numa-esqe islands of smaller, fully connected SMPs.
This is the architecture of the big-time super computers anyways [ unless Fujitsu made an 80000 node cache coherent interconnect recently ], and is the one with scalability.
Woo! Hoo! iPAD KILLER. Obviously it was the "O" that made the iPOD so death defying....
Nice work continuing to quote Eric after he had tipped his inanity hand; but did you have the decency to point out that 1+, while more than one, is actually not first place? Perhaps suggest "1-" as a way of inserting a platinum medal above gold?
First, the transporter renders most of the other gadgets useless. Want money; transport the bank vault contents to your basement. Want to be invisible; transport around continuously. Want to kill someone; move them 10ft underground. Almost any problem can be solved by the transporter.
Second, the Ray Bradbury clone+kill model of transporting isn't the only one possible - linking two points in space via space-time is a more compelling idea. You needn't clone anything, just superimpose the two points in space then remove the imposition leaving the payload behind. Zero time, regardless of distance. Maybe I should patent it.
Third, Holodeck is 80%? Are you serious? To say its in its infancy is to say that protozoa are akin to infant humans. Fuck, all Sony's game portal can figure out is how to broadcast private information all over the net ( Sony engineer: "the ftp logs are full of anonymous"; Shill: "we were attacked by anonymous" ).
Transporters for all.
The effect of amazon's stunning incompetence demonstrates how truly scalable the cloud computing model is. Simple errors are able to scale up to astounding outages that most data centres couldn't have dreamed of in the past. We'll have jobs for the rest of our lives; good work Amazon!
"In fact virtualisation, the work of VMware, was itself directly related to server disk I/O performance drag because earlier efforts to keep the server or desktop PC CPU busy when disk I/O delays caused it to be idle, meaning multi-tasking operating systems, were so bad at sorting out the problem."
You might want to ease up on the meth a bit; your babbling...
You also might want to sip or two from the knowledge fountain, because even after a bit of sorting, your claims in this are nonsense.
UNIX, and presumably windows, aren't crap at the scheduling problem at all. Of the many reasons to use VMWARE; performance, throughput and utilization aren't amongst them.
Zune was the last of the iPOD slayers; well done!
Will it be reincarnated as an iPAD or iPHONE killer? You certainly don't want to lose the draw of that brand power. I bet, even today, the mere mention of it brings tears to the eyes of those who woke up one fateful christmas to find out they weren't getting an iPOD after all.
Zune-II; slayer of iSPLAT?
The squirt was not enough - this beast will take a full fledged dump.
I was hoping somebody was finally going to pimp themselves as the "iTunes Killer". I have a little poster-board filled with "iPod killers"; and a smaller group that asserted they would be "iPhone Killers". So far, the "iTunes Killer" board is pretty lonely. I was hoping this was it.
Rock on, formerly unheard of and destined to remain, Rusian Kogan: your 15 msec is up.
The problem he is alluding to is a bug in some software which leaves the firewire dma controller unfiltered. That is, requests go straight through it to the system memory. This mechanism, Remote DMA, is a feature of other external busses, such as IB.
It has nothing to do with USB's brain damaged asymmetry, nor does OTG add a remote DMA feature to USB. It is USBs requirement that software intercept every transaction that keeps it out of this trap; however most USB implementations are sufficiently buggy that you can find other ways to induce troubling behaviour.
As for reading the disk, you would either need to have the aforementioned flaw in your OS, and understand enough about the system layout in order to reprogram the disk to dump its contents. Possible, but a bit odd. Elmer is likely referring to something like "Target Mode", a feature of Mac Roms since the original 128K Mac. By holding down <magickey>-T at startup, the computer becomes a Target Mode disk. The terminology is left over from SCSI, and permits a handy way to setup a new machine based upon an older one; or recover a broken machine.
Target mode is, of course, subservient to the ROM password; but Elmer likely knew that too. His scenarios are pretty lame.
Keep up the good fact checking; soon you'll be on par with Fox.
Has anybody produced a little graph to see how this corporate largess has helped the education system? Didn't think so. Dumping excess crap on schools for the tax deduction just deprives schools of the better things - like pencils, crayons and paper.
Weeping CEOs conjures up such great imagery - perhaps of Crusty the Clown whining over the failure of his latest inane scheme.
Gotta call you on that one. An associate infamously told a customer one day 'If you pay us enough and we'll dance down the street in pink tutus for you'. Many developers are proud of their prostitution inspired business models, complete with pimps and bordellos .
Buying the bordello or pimp doesn't get you the developers. Unlike the poor prostitute, they are highly mobile and know it. Line up an endless stream of juicy customers and the box of chocolates, and they will knock on your door.
Paris, because she understands the model.
At least they aren't flogging that poor beast this time around. What competition will iPad face from imitations? Price?
Maybe snoracle could squish a sun-ray setup into a tablet and offer a truly different entry, but otherwise its like pepsi - you only order it if you can't get a coke.
Isn't it a tad more accurate to say that MicroSoft was the attack on SCADA; and the inevitable repercussion was SCADA systems that are vulnerable to all manner of compromise... The SCADA suppliers shoulder the blame as well; but it is hard to believe that many companies would make the decision to switch platforms had the inherent design flaws of Windows been admitted.