Name: Anonymous 2012-10-05 10:07
http://www.loper-os.org/
Excerpt:
And now format wars rage once more – this time over video codecs. Patent trolls smell the blood and fear of lucrative, juicy prey: YouTube et al. Web users and content providers live in terror, dreading the day when they will have to switch video codecs. As we all know, this is an exceedingly unpleasant process. First, the web browser or server must be lifted on hydraulic jacks. Then, its hood is opened, and greasy mechanics will grimly crank the codec hoist, lifting the old video engine out from its moorings. The vacant compartment must be scrubbed clean of black, sooty HTTP residue before the new codec can be winched into place.
Wait, this isn’t how your WWW stack works? What do you mean, it’s a piece of software? Surely this doesn’t mean that it is a magical artifact with functionality which can be altered in arbitrary ways at any time? Turing-completeness? What’s that? “This room stinks of mathematics! Go out and get a disinfectant spray.” There’s simply no such thing as a machine which can be rewired on a whim while it runs! Everybody knows that! If you want altered functionality, someone must physically replace the shafts and gears!
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/
The parallel programming crisis is an unprecedented opportunity for a real maverick to shift the computing paradigm and forge a new future. It’s obvious that neither Intel nor AMD have a solution. You can rest assured that Sun’s Rock chip will not be the last big chip failure in the industry. Get ready to witness Intel’s Larrabee and AMD’s Fusion projects come crashing down like the Hindenburg.
Anybody who thinks that last century’s multithreading CPU and GPU technologies will survive in the age of massive parallelism is delusional, in my opinion. After the industry has suffered enough (it’s all about money), it will suddenly dawn on everybody that it is time to force the baby boomers (the Turing Machine worshippers) to finally retire and boldly break away from 20th century’s failed computing models.
http://xahlee.org/
Excerpts:
The poor males are burdened with acquiring a secure dwelling place since their inception, and good dwelling places are always scarce, from caves of yore or mansion of present. Often we'll have to risk our lives, as told in countless fairy tales of hero saving princesses. Perhaps feminists of our era can right this wrong? Imagine one day, we males happily look at prospective females, who will provide us houses and security. The females, will have to build cities, fight wars, toil in the fields. And we males, all have to do is to beautify ourselves.
Excerpt:
And now format wars rage once more – this time over video codecs. Patent trolls smell the blood and fear of lucrative, juicy prey: YouTube et al. Web users and content providers live in terror, dreading the day when they will have to switch video codecs. As we all know, this is an exceedingly unpleasant process. First, the web browser or server must be lifted on hydraulic jacks. Then, its hood is opened, and greasy mechanics will grimly crank the codec hoist, lifting the old video engine out from its moorings. The vacant compartment must be scrubbed clean of black, sooty HTTP residue before the new codec can be winched into place.
Wait, this isn’t how your WWW stack works? What do you mean, it’s a piece of software? Surely this doesn’t mean that it is a magical artifact with functionality which can be altered in arbitrary ways at any time? Turing-completeness? What’s that? “This room stinks of mathematics! Go out and get a disinfectant spray.” There’s simply no such thing as a machine which can be rewired on a whim while it runs! Everybody knows that! If you want altered functionality, someone must physically replace the shafts and gears!
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/
The parallel programming crisis is an unprecedented opportunity for a real maverick to shift the computing paradigm and forge a new future. It’s obvious that neither Intel nor AMD have a solution. You can rest assured that Sun’s Rock chip will not be the last big chip failure in the industry. Get ready to witness Intel’s Larrabee and AMD’s Fusion projects come crashing down like the Hindenburg.
Anybody who thinks that last century’s multithreading CPU and GPU technologies will survive in the age of massive parallelism is delusional, in my opinion. After the industry has suffered enough (it’s all about money), it will suddenly dawn on everybody that it is time to force the baby boomers (the Turing Machine worshippers) to finally retire and boldly break away from 20th century’s failed computing models.
http://xahlee.org/
Excerpts:
The poor males are burdened with acquiring a secure dwelling place since their inception, and good dwelling places are always scarce, from caves of yore or mansion of present. Often we'll have to risk our lives, as told in countless fairy tales of hero saving princesses. Perhaps feminists of our era can right this wrong? Imagine one day, we males happily look at prospective females, who will provide us houses and security. The females, will have to build cities, fight wars, toil in the fields. And we males, all have to do is to beautify ourselves.